Discipline: Literature – fiction

Nanci Kincaid

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Honolulu, HI
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993

Naci Pierce Kincaid Is an American novelist born in Tallahassee, Florida. She grew up in Richmond and attended Huguenot High school, Virginia Tech, University of Wyoming, and Athens State College, where she completed her B.A. She then earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama. Her novels include, Crossing Blood, Balls, Verbena, and As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me. Her short story collection titled Pretending the Bed Is a Raft inspired the film My Life Without Me. She married University of Wyoming and Arkansas State University football coach, Al Kincaid, and they live in Honolulu with their four children.

Studios

Monday Music

Nanci Kincaid worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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