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Discipline:Literature – fiction
Alice Elliott Dark
Discipline:Literature – fiction
Region:Montclair, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships:2014, 2021
Alice Elliott Dark worked on her fourth book of fiction, Fellowship Point, during her 2014 residency. It will appear from Scribner in July 2022. During a 2021 residency she worked on her next novel, Anne After Laird, and a hybrid project. Other works include In the Gloaming, Think of England, and Naked to the Waist. She teaches at Rutgers-Newark in English and MFA.
Portrait by James Leng
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Alice Elliott Dark worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…