Discipline: Literature – fiction

Alexander Tilney

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Alexander Tilney is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and has been a fellow at MacDowell. His writing has appeared in The Southwest Review, The Journal of the Office for Creative Research, and Gelf Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, theater artist Sarah Hughes. The Expectations is his first novel.

At MacDowell, he worked on his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Studios

Heyward

Alexander Tilney worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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