Discipline: Literature – fiction

Maggie Nye

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Tallahassee, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022

Maggie Nye is a writer and editor hailing from Maryland. She is currently a Ph.D. student at FSU in Tallahassee, where she serves as nonfiction editor for Southeast Review. Her work has been generously supported by Tin House, the Tent: Creative Writing, and the St. Albans School Writer-in-Residence program. Her first novel, The Curators (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone, 2024), features Leo Frank, a golem, and a girl gang in 1915 Atlanta.

While are MacDowell, Nye worked toward completing a first draft of her second novel, tentatively titled Blinder. The book is a radical feminist adaptation of the Medusa myth inspired by popular protest movements.

Studios

Star

Maggie Nye worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

Learn more