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Claire Luchette is a writer from Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and The Iowa Review.
At MacDowell, she completed a second draft of her novel, Agatha of Little Neon, about a group of Midwestern nuns. Excerpts from the novel have appeared in Ploughshares and Granta.
Agatha of Little Neon (book)
Claire Luchette worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…