Discipline: Literature – fiction

Tom Quach

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Santa Ana, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

While at MacDowell, writer Tom Quach worked on a novel which focuses on themes of Asian American identity. He also worked on a screenplay dealing with corporal punishment and religion.

He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Studios

Wood

Tom Quach worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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