Deirdre Coyle is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Kerouac Project, and the Antioch Writers' Workshop. She is the author of the chapbook How to Talk to Writers at Parties, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Texas Observer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me,” was named one of the Best Stories by Women in 2017 by Bustle, translated into Italian for Corriere della Sera, and anthologized in several collections. She is a columnist at Unwinnable and a digital producer at Publishers Weekly. At MacDowell she began work a new novel. Find her online at @DeirdreKoala.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Deirdre Coyle
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
www.deirdrecoyle.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Deirdre Coyle worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…