Christa Parravani is the author of Her: A Memoir, an indie bestseller. Her has been optioned for film by producer Jon Kilik. Parravani's writing has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, Hobart, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Washington Post, Salon, The Rumpus, The Daily Beast, The London Times, The Daily Mail, and The Guardian, among other places. While at MacDowell she'll be working on her second book, Life and Death in West Virginia, a memoir that investigates the current crisis of reproductive rights in the United States. Parravani is assistant professor of creative nonfiction at West Virginia University.
Discipline:
Visual Art – photography, Literature – nonfiction
Christa Parravani
Discipline:
Visual Art – photography, Literature – nonfiction
Region: Morgantown, WV
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005, 2006, 2019
More:
www.christaparravani.com
Studios
Nef
Christa Parravani worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…