Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is a writer currently focusing on a nonfiction project about a federal prisoner. He was formerly on the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he continues to write the monthly "Findings" column.

Studios

Veltin

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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