Discipline: Literature

Joyce Hackett

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990, 1997
More: www.joycehackett.net
Joyce Hackett is a writer and activist living in the Berkshires. A former member Community Board 9 in New York, she the creator of several large public education projects, including Washington Write-a-Story Day. She's also the founder of Lift+Every+Vote, which teaches citizens how to protect our democracy's critical infrastructure. It's focused on the basics of voting: registration, access, and verification. Joyce Hackett currently works as automatic voter registration field organizer for Common Cause Massachusetts. Her fiction and essays have been published in 12 countries, including in Harpers, The Guardian (UK), The Independent, The Paris Review, London Magazine, Die Welt, Der Tagespiegel, and on NPR. Her widely acclaimed novel, Disturbance of the Inner Ear, won the Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. Hackett's novel-in-progress, Reconstruction, explores Frederick Douglass' friendship with Susan B. Anthony.

Studios

Schelling

Joyce Hackett 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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