Discipline: Literature – fiction

Barbara Moss

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Annapolis, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000

Barbara Klein Moss is a graduate of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. program for writers. Her collection of stories, Little Edens, was published by W.W. Norton in 2004. Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, and Southwest Review, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2001. Her stories have been shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize and The Best American Short Stories 2002 and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize collections. She has received a 2006 fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Bread Loaf fellowship, a MacDowell fellowship, two Individual Artist awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a 2008 Annie Literary Arts Award from the Anne Arundel County Arts Council. Her novel, The Language of Paradise, will be published by Norton in April of 2015. She lives in Annapolis, MD.

Studios

Phi Beta

Barbara Moss worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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