Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, Nineteen Reservoirs, and, most recently, I Heard Her Call My Name. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships. She recently retired after 24 years teaching writing and the history of photography at Bard College and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Crown by the Belgian government.
At MacDowell in 2014, Sante worked on a novel titled Declare Present Time Over. During her 2024 residency, she wrote an essay on Jean Eustache's 1973 film The Mother and the Whore, eviscerated a few books as part of research for a contracted book on the Velvet Underground and 1960s New York City, and, on a self-bet, started reconstructing a long-buried novel, previous drafts of which had been discarded—and which is now turning into a completely different novel.
