Discipline: Literature – fiction

Zeynep Kayhan

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Istanbul, TURKEY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Zeynep Kayhan worked on her first novel, which was about art, authenticity, and being young in Istanbul.

Studios

Veltin

Zeynep Kayhan 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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