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Carrie Cogan is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Nimrod, Louisiana Literature, AGNI, and elsewhere. Her story “Birds of Paradise” won the 2015 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Society Fiction Prize. She has received additional awards from Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and First Pages Prize. She lives with her sons on an island in British Columbia.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a second draft of her novel, Red All Over.
Carrie Cogan worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…