Catherine E. McKinley is a curator and writer whose books include the critically acclaimed Indigo (Bloomsbury), a journey along the ancient indigo trade routes in West Africa, and The Book of Sarahs (Counterpoint), a memoir about growing up Black and Jewish in the 1960s–80s. She's taught creative nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Her latest, The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women, is scheduled for release in early 2021. She also curates The McKinley Collection, a personal archive representing African photographies from 1870 to the present.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Catherine E. McKinley
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996
Studios
Star
Catherine E. McKinley worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…