Discipline: Literature

Jillian Medoff

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

Jillian Medoff is the acclaimed author of four novels. Her latest, This Could Hurt, an “absorbing workplace drama with heart,” landed on many “Best of” and “Must Read” lists, including Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, NY Post, Real Simple, O Magazine, Poets & Writers, People, Fast Company, Chicago Review of Books, Parade, and the Millions, among others. She also wrote the much-lauded national bestseller I Couldn’t Love You More, Good Girls Gone Bad, and Hunger Point, which was made into an original cable movie starring Christina Hendricks and Barbara Hershey. In addition to being a MacDowell Fellow, she has had fellowships at Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain. Jillian has an M.F.A. from NYU and, along with writing novels, Jillian has a long career in management consulting. She’s worked for a range of employers, including Deloitte and Aon. Now, as a senior consultant with the Segal Group, she advises clients on communication strategies for all aspects of the employee experience.

Studios

Monday Music

Jillian Medoff worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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