Discipline: Literature – fiction

Anna Keesey

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002

Anna Keesey is an American author from Portland, Oregon. She is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her novel, Little Century, earned the highest marks by readers and literary critics at the New York Times book review, the Washington Post, O Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Millions, and The Rumpus.

Her fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have also appeared in journals and newspapers such as Grand Street, The Best American Short Stories, The Chicago Tribune, and more. She is the recipient of awards, prizes, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Yaddo. Keesey currently teaches English and creative writing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Studios

Chapman

Anna Keesey worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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