Moira McCavana


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Madrid, SPAIN
Residencies: 2022

Writer Moira McCavana’s first published short story, No Spanish, was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize Anthology. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Drift, Harvard Review, and The London Magazine, and has been adapted to audio as an Audible Original story. Her collection, 86 Ways of Becoming José Manuel Elosegi, was a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction.

While at MacDowell, she wrote short stories to be included in an upcoming collection that explores the human relationships brought about by various types of infrastructure as well as the organization of urban and suburban space.

Studios

Calderwood

Moira McCavana worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…

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