Discipline: Literature – fiction

Anna Noyes

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Fishers Island, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Anna Noyes is the author of the debut story collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove Atlantic, 2016), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Story Prize. She earned her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the 2013 Henfield Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Vice, A Public Space, and Guernica, among others. She has received the Lotos Foundation Prize, as well as fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Aspen Words, the James Merrill House, and Lighthouse Works.

At MacDowell, Noyes completed two short stories to be included in a collection-in-progress and planned the next draft of her debut novel, The Blue Maiden (Grove Atlantic, 2024).

Studios

Heyward

Anna Noyes worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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