Jacob Newberry is from the Mississippi coast but currently lives in Tallahassee, FL He worked on a memoir and a poetry manuscript. Winner of the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest in Nonfiction, he also spent a year in Jerusalem on a Fulbright Fellowship for poetry. Most importantly, at the time of his residency, he had completed 4/7ths of his life goal of jogging on every continent. (Antarctica's going to be tricky, he admits.)
Jacob Newberry
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in Tallahassee, FL
Residencies: 2013
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Studios
MacDowell
Jacob Newberry worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the…