Julie Metz is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. She has written on a wide range of women’s issues for publications including: The New York Times, Dame, Salon, Slice, Redbook, Glamour, Next Tribe, and MrBellersneighborhood.com. Her essays have appeared in anthologies including The Moment, edited by Larry Smith, creator of “Six-Word Memoirs.” Julie has been a podcast guest on Dear Sugar Radio co-hosted by Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond; Women of the Hour, hosted by director/actress/author Lena Dunham; BBC Radio’s show The Why Factor on the subject of Truth; and You Turns, co-hosted by Jill Herzig and Lisa Oz. Julie is a fellow of The Yaddo Corporation, MacDowell, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently at work on Eva and Eve to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster.
Julie Metz
Studios
Wood
Julie Metz worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…