While at MacDowell, Suzanne Rivecca worked on a novel, The Habitants, about Walt Whitman in New Orleans. Her debut book of short stories, Death is Not an Option, was released in July 2010 from W. W. Norton & Company. She is the recipient of a 2010 NEA grant in prose.
Suzanne Rivecca
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in San Francisco, CA
Residencies: 2008, 2010
Studios
Calderwood
Suzanne Rivecca worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…