Discipline: Literature – translation

Alina Gallo

Discipline: Literature – translation
Region: Portland, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Alina Gallo worked on translating Giovanni Pascoli's volume of poetry Myricae (1891) from Italian. She also worked on her first novel, Leela. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the ICA in Portland and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

Studios

MacDowell

Alina Gallo worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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