Carin Clevidence grew up in a family of naturalists and travelers. She is the author of a novel, The House on Salt Hay Road (FSG) as well as travel essays and short stories appearing in O Magazine, OZY, Panorama, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has worked as a deckhand in Baja, Mexico and an assistant expedition leader in Antarctica, and received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, and Sustainable Arts, and residencies at VCCA, the Hermitage Artists’ Retreat, Ledig House, Brush Creek, Marble House Project, Willapa Bay AiR, and Yaddo. She worked on a novel set onboard an expedition cruise ship in Antarctica while at MacDowell.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Carin Clevidence
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Northampton, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
www.carinclevidence.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Carin Clevidence 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…