Lily King is a fiction writer who grew up in Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. Upon graduation, she taught English in Valencia, Spain and started writing her first novel. This novel, The Pleasing Hour, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, won a Whiting Writer’s Award, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her other novels, The English Teach, Father of the Rain, Euphoria, and Writers & Lovers, have also each received many accolades of their own. King has also published short stories, essays, and reviews in a variety of publications including, The New York Times. The Washington Post, Vogue, The Los Angeles Review of Books, One Story, The Harvard Reviews, Ploughshares, and several anthologies. She currently lives in Portland, Maine with her husband, Tyler, and their two daughters.
Lily King
Studios
Wood
Lily King 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…