Ann Nietzke's novel Windowlight (Capra Press, Picador/London, Soho Press) won a PEN/West Award for Best First Fiction. Natalie on the Street (Calyx Books), an account of her relationship with a homeless, mentally ill "bag lady" in her Los Angeles neighborhood, was a PEN/West Finalist for Best Nonfiction. Short stories that appeared in Shenandoah, Massachusetts Review, and Other Voices were included in Solo Spinout: Stories and a Novella (Soho Press). Nietzke has received fellowships in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council and was awarded the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction from the Isherwood Foundation. She has worked various clerical jobs such as medical transcriber, dental receptionist, grant writer, and psychotherapist's assistant, and she served for many years as secretary in a psychiatric shelter for homeless people.
Ann Nietzke
Studios
Barnard
Ann Nietzke worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…