Discipline: Literature – fiction

Dinitia Smith

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000

Dinitia Smith is an American author and filmmaker. She was previously a culture reporter for The New York Times. In 1975, Smith won an Emmy Award for a film she made for WNBC – TV. She published her first novel, The Hard Rain, in 1980. Her second novel, Remember This, won her fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals.

Studios

Calderwood

Dinitia Smith worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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