Discipline: Literature – fiction

Maria Borja

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Oslo, NORWAY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Maria Borja worked on her second book, New Town (2013), after her debut Grown-Up Things, which was published in Norway in April 2010. A Norwegian journalist and press coordinator, she recently moved back to Oslo after a year in Brooklyn, NY.

Studios

Phi Beta

Maria Borja 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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