Discipline: Literature – fiction

Amy Rowland

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Princeton, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000

Amy Rowland is a novelist and a former editor at The New York Times Book Review.

Her novel, The Transcriptionist, received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Norman Mailer Center, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Rowland’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, and other publications. She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.

Studios

Wood

Amy Rowland worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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