Disciplines: Literature – fiction

Richard Krawiec

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Region: Pittsburg, PA
Residencies: 1986

Richard Krawiec is an American writer who was born in 1952 in Brockton, MA. He has published two novels, two sports biographies for young people, a chapbook, two books of poetry, and many feature articles. His works have been featured in Publishers Weekly, the Village Voice, The Washington Post, the LA Times, Kirkus, Cardinal, Voices from Home, Library Journal, and Forty Best Books of the Year (2004). Krawiec is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, one from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and one from MacDowell in New Hampshire. He is also the founder of Jacar Press and was one of the first writers to teach in homeless shelters, prisons, literary classes, housing projects, and other community locations.

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Cheney

Richard Krawiec worked in the Cheney studio.

Support the 31 studios on MacDowell's campus by making a gift right now, during our Spring Appeal! CheneyStudio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs.Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massedbungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supportedon wooden posts…

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