Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a historian and award-winning writer based in North Carolina. She has won a coveted James Beard Foundation Award, the nation's highest honor in food writing.
Her journalistic work has appeared in The Atlantic, Essence, The Nation, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Vox, among other publications. She was also lead editor of The Echoing Ida Collection, an anthology of Black women and people writing about reproductive justice.
At MacDowell, she worked on a series of essays about expanding the definition of "soul food."
Studios
Phi Beta
Cynthia Greenlee worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded
by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of
music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The
small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing
combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate
roofing.
Inside
is…
