Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Ly Tran

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Ridgewood, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
Ly Tran was born in Vietnam, emigrating to the United States when she was three years old. She resides in Quooklyn (Queens/Brooklyn), NY, and worked on her memoir, tentatively titled HOUSE OF STICKS.

Studios

Wood

Ly Tran 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…

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