Discipline: Literature – fiction

Nathan Ihara

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New Orleans, LA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

While at MacDowell, Nathan worked on his first novel, Feet to the Lame. He writes book reviews and author interviews for LA Weekly.

Studios

Wood

Nathan Ihara worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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