Discipline: Literature

Barbara Feinberg

Discipline: Literature
Region: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987


Barbara Feinberg is the award- winning author of Welcome to Lizard Motel: Protecting the Imaginative Lives of Children, and has written about creativity and imaginative life in childhood for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Education Next, and elsewhere. She is the originator and director of Story Shop, a creative arts program for children ages 3–12 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, in existence since 1992.

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Studios

Banks

Barbara Feinberg worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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