Discipline: Literature

Marly Swick

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988

Marly Swick is the author of two short story collections, Monogamy and The Summer Before the Summer of Love (HarperCollins), and two novels, Paper Wings (HarperCollins) and Evening News (Little, Brown).

A recipient of an NEA grant, James Michener grant, and Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute Fellowship, her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The North American Review, among other magazines, and has been anthologized in O'Henry Prize Stories, Best of the South, Contemporary West Coast Writers, The Iowa Award, High Infidelity, and other collections.

Studios

Heyward

Marly Swick worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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