Discipline: Literature – fiction

James Hannaham

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2017

James Hannaham, Brooklyn, NY, has published a pair of novels: Delicious Foods, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner and New York Times Notable Book, and God Says No, a Lambda Book Award finalist. He practices many other types of writing, art, and performance, and teaches a few of them at the Pratt Institute. At MacDowell in 2017, he read some books and did some “typing” that may eventually result in a book, or even more than one book.

Portrait by Hannah Ensor

Studios

Barnard

James Hannaham worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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