Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction

John Krich

Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990, 1993

John Krich is a novelist, travel writer, columnist, critic, feature writer, and journalist. He attended the Fieldston School, Reed College, and New York University Film School. His first novel won the PEN/Hemingway Award and another book helped spark a boom in American travel literature. He has contributed to numerous major national publications and was the main food columnist for the Asian Wall Street Journal. Krich was also a feature writer for the East Bay Expressm, Conde Nast Traveler, European Travel and Life, and Vogue. His hundreds of journalism pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Mother Jones, TIME/Asia, Village Voice, and more. Krich has received San Francisco’s Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award as Writer of the Year and two National Endowment of the Arts Literary Fellowships.

Studios

Phi Beta

John Krich worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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