Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Erin Sroka

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Durham, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Erin Sroka is working on a nonfiction book about the emotional landscape of a for-profit bingo hall in North Carolina. Her journalism and fiction explore class, culture, addiction, family, and places where our consumer drives fight against our better selves.

Studios

Sorosis

Erin Sroka worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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