Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Genese Grill

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Plainfield, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Genese Grill is a writer, translator, visual artist, and independent scholar living in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's " The Man without Qualities" : Possibility as Reality (Camden House, 2012) and the translator of a collection of small prose by Robert Musil, entitled Thought Flights (Contra Mundum, 2015). Her collection of essays, Portals: Reflections on the Spirit in Matter, was finished at MacDowell in April 2016. Essays from the collection have appeared in The Georgia Review, Numero Cinq, and The Missouri Review (as a Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winner).

Studios

Heyward

Genese Grill worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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