Discipline: Literature

Laura Marello

Discipline: Literature
Region: Lynchburg, VA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991
More: lauramarello.com/about-laura-marello
Laura Marello is the author of seven novels, two collections of stories, a collection of poems, two memoirs, and a screenplay. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship, as well as Vogelstein and Deming grants, and writer’s residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay Colony and Montalvo Center for the Arts. Marello studied poetry with Raymond Carver and Black Mountain Poet Edward Dorn, at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Colorado Boulder, respectively. She studied fiction with Gil Sorrentino as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is currently a professor of English at Lynchburg College.

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Banks

Laura Marello worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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