Discipline: Literature – fiction

Mary Hanlon

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Mary Hanlon worked on her first novel, The Last Island. She is a writer for the Brooklyn Rail, GAG Magazine and Stat-o-rec.com, and was awarded the Riggo Honors Writing and Democracy scholarship at The New School.

Studios

Wood

Mary Hanlon 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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