Danzy Senna is an American novelist and essayist. Her first work, Caucasia (1998), has been translated into 10 languages and has won multiple awards. The winner of a Whiting Award, Senna is the author of three novels, a memoir, and a short-story collection, along with numerous essays centering on issues of gender, race, and motherhood. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, and the New York Times. She is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Discipline:
Literature
Danzy Senna
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997, 1999
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Banks
Danzy Senna worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…