Petrina Crockford was born in Del Rio, Texas and raised in California’s Central Valley. Her recent fiction has appeared in Meridian, LUMINA, and The Raleigh Review, and she’s written on Chinua Achebe and Ernest Hemingway for The Paris Review. She was a finalist for the Rolex Literature Prize and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English literature and received her M.F.A. in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. While in residency, she’ll be working on her first novel, about immigrant communities in New York City, Barbados, and on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Petrina Crockford
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Goleta, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Birth
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Studios
Garland
Petrina Crockford worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…