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.
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…
