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Ayşe Papatya Bucak is the author of the collection The Trojan War Museum, which was awarded the Spotlight Award by the Story Prize. Her writing has been published in a variety of journals including The Southampton Review and Copper Nickel and was reprinted in the O. Henry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She teaches at Florida Atlantic University.
At MacDowell, Bucak worked on her novel-in-progress, The Anatolian Monster. The novel has also been supported by a fellowship at Yaddo.
Ayşe Papatya Bucak worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…