Carrie Laben grew up in western New York and earned her M.F.A. at the University of Montana. She now lives in Queens. Her work has appeared in such venues as Birding, The Dark, Indiana Review, Okey-Panky, and Outlook Springs. In addition to MacDowell, she was selected for the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writer’s Residency in 2015. In 2017 she won the Shirley Jackson Award in Short Fiction for her story “Postcards from Natalie” and Duke University’s Documentary Essay Prize for the essay “The Wrong Place.” At MacDowell, she completed the May chapter of her essay collection The City and The Sky, which focuses on the history and ecology of Central Park, as well as two stand-alone essays.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Carrie Laben
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: NEW YORK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
carrielaben.com
Studios
Garland
Carrie Laben 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…