Discipline: Literature – translation

Jennifer Hayashida

Discipline: Literature – translation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007

Jennifer Hayashida is the author of A Machine Wrote This Song (Gramma Poetry, 2018). Her translations from the Swedish include work by Ida Börjel, Athena Farrokhzad, and Fredrik Nyberg.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Jennifer Hayashida worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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