Discipline: Literature – fiction

Amity Gaige

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: West Hartford, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018

Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder. A New York Times Notable Book, Schroder has been translated into 18 languages, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize in 2014. Amity is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship. She currently teaches at Yale.

While at MacDowell, she worked on a novel about a couple who forsake conventional life in order to live on a boat with their young children. In her two-week residency, she was able to complete the climax of her novel, a piece of prose about 35 pages long.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Sea Wife (Novel)

Studios

Barnard

Amity Gaige worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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