Elana Greenfield was born in New York City and is an American playwright, and short story writer. Greenfield was raised in Israel. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from Brown University with an M.F.A. She was Artistic Director of New Dramatists. She is the author of the book At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations (2003). Her play, Nine Come, is published in the anthology New Downtown Now from University of Minnesota Press, 2006. She teaches playwriting at Eugene Lang College, The New School. Her work has appeared in Bomb and The Brooklyn Rail, 2004. She was the recipient of the Whiting Award.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Elana Greenfield
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
Studios
Phi Beta
Elana Greenfield 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…