Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Camila Kerwin

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2025

Camila Kerwin is a journalist who makes comics and radio. She’s a regular comics contributor to the Boston Globe and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, KCRW’s Bodies, NPR’s Morning Edition, Sony’s Cheat!, The World from PRI, the Miami Herald, and more. Her profile on self-made ornithologist Althea Sherman was published in MoMA Magazine in March of 2025.

Kerwin illustrated Florida Public Media’s Murrow Award-winning multimedia project, “Class of Covid,” and is a founding member of the Rough Cut Collective. Previously, she was a producer at Marketplace’s This Is Uncomfortable, StoryCorps, and NPR’s On Point.

While at MacDowell she drafted the script and sketches for the prologue of her nonfiction graphic novel on kids and gun violence in the U.S., to be released in 2026. Her reporting on guns has appeared in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Camila Kerwin worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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