Discipline: Literature

Jill Teitelman

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brewster, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982

Jill Teitelman has taught writing and literature at the Sorbonne, The School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, the University of Massachusetts, and Simmons College. Her stories have been published in the Chicago Review, Transatlantic, and Story Quarterly. She has written encyclopedia articles, documentary film scripts, comic books, and has ghostwritten for a soap opera star, a physician, and a Washington D.C. personality. She has also produced programs for public affairs television and NPR about art, ecology, and politics. And she’s pretty sure she’s the only writer to have worked for both Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmopolitan and the renowned feminist author Germaine Greer. Jill lives in Boston and on Cape Cod and gets to New York City often. She swims, takes yoga classes and travels as widely as possible.

Studios

Schelling

Jill Teitelman worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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