Disciplines: Literature – fiction

Sibyl Johnston

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Region: Lexington, MA
Residencies: 2000

While at MacDowell, Sibyl Johnston revised her first novel, Iris Holmes, and worked on a story cycle. Her creative writing textbook, Where the Stories Come From, would be published the next summer by Addison Wesley Longman. She also interviewed other artists for a book on creative process and approaches to writing.

Studios

Mansfield

Sibyl Johnston worked in the Mansfield studio.

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