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Joseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties (Ecco, 2018), which is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently an assistant professor of English at the California State University, Fresno.
While at MacDowell he worked on his second book, currently untitled, about queer life in post-Revolution Cuba and its diaspora.
Joseph Cassara worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…