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Rachel Cantor is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014) and Good On Paper (2016). Both Good on Paper and her two novels-in-progress, the nearly complete Half-Life of a Stolen Sister and a nearly drafted, as-yet-untitled YA novel, were started at MacDowell in beautiful Schelling and Heyward.
Portrait by Bennett Beckenstein
Rachel Cantor worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…