Kathleen Alcott is the author of the novels Infinite Home, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, and America Was Hard To Find, final edits for which were completed at MacDowell, and short story collection Emergency. Her short fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, ZYZYZZVA, The Bennington Review, and elsewhere; in 2017, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Tin House, ELLE, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in New York, where she teaches at Columbia University. From 2018-2019, she was a visiting faculty member at Bennington College.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Kathleen Alcott
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
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Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
America Was Hard to Find (Novel)
Studios
Wood
Kathleen Alcott 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…