Senior School Teacher Receives Mullberry Street Focus Fellowship

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Senior School Teacher Receives Mullberry Street Focus Fellowship
Linda McDonald

Shady Side Academy Senior School English teacher Linda McDonald was the recipient of AIR Serenbe's 2017 Mulberry Street Focus Fellowship, awarded to an author and illustrator whose work explores the experience of childhood and growing up. As a fellowship winner, McDonald spent two weeks, Dec. 18-30, as an artist in residency, living and working in a cottage at The Art Farm at Serenbe in Georgia.

AIR Serenbe is the nonprofit artist residency program of the Serenbe Institute. It supports artists of every discipline through the Focus Fellowship awards, nominated annually by their National Advisory Council – esteemed peers and experts in the field.

McDonald has taught English at SSA Senior School since 2007 and serves as advisor to the student newspaper, The SSA News. She also is a fiction writer, memoirist and poet. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh with a dual focus on fiction and poetry. She was selected as a 2016 Finalist for the Southeastern Review's World's Best Short-Short Story Contest and her poem, "Enlisting," was included in the 2016 anthology of poetry and art, Verse Envisioned. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Chaos Journal of Personal Narrative, Peeking Cat, 5AM and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Saturday poem. McDonald also has taught creative writing and English at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, and the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas, where she received the Outstanding Teacher of Humanities Award from Humanities Texas.

Congratulations, Ms. McDonald!

Read Ms. McDonald's Faculty Blog post reflecting on her fellowship experience.

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