Edie Meidav is the author of the (imminent) collection of short fiction with a nonfiction coda, Kingdom of the Young (2017, Sarabande), and three award-winning novels: Lola, California (FSG); Crawl Space (FSG); and The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon (Houghton Mifflin), which came out of a conversation she had while climbing Monadnock in her first MacDowell visit. She directs the UMass Amherst M.F.A. program for poets and writers. This year, she is a co-judge of the PEN/Bingham first fiction prize. At MacDowell in 2019, she revised Future Love Paradise, a novel based on Fulbright-sponsored research at a refugee camp and Turkish orphanage in Cyprus. An early excerpt of this novel was published in the journal Washington Square. Meidav was the 2019 Jane Geuting Camp Fellow at VCCA and had the debut of an aria from an opera,Tides of the Wolf, for which she wrote the libretto, premiere this May at Chelsea's NYPOP with Ghost Ensemble, performed by vocalist Carmina Escobar. Online, she can be found @lolacalifornia.
Edie Meidav
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Another Love Discourse (Novel)
Future Love Paradis (Novel)
Studios
New Jersey
Edie Meidav worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…