Discipline: Literature – fiction

Daphne Kalotay

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: MASSACHUSETTS
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2005

Daphne Kalotay’s books include the award-winning novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter, the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories—shortlisted for the Story Prize—and, most recently, the novel Blue Hours (2019). Published in 20+ languages, her work has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, Bogliasco, and Yaddo, among others, and her story "Relativity" was the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. She teaches creative writing at Princeton University but makes her home in Somerville, MA.

Studios

New Jersey

Daphne Kalotay worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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