Discipline: Literature

Mary Hood

Discipline: Literature
Region: Woodstock, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
Mary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections; How Far She Went, And Venus is Blue, and A Clear View of the Southern Sky; two novellas, And Venus is Blue (also the title of her second short story collection) and Seam Busters; and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines. Hood was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2014. After obtaining a degree in Spanish and working for two years as a librarian in Douglasville, Georgia, Hood bought land and moved to Cherokee County near Woodstock, Georgia. Hood lived in Woodstock (in the small lake community of Little Victoria on the banks of Lake Allatoona) for 30 years, where she witnessed the small, rural town turn into a bedroom community for burgeoning Atlanta – much of which is fictionally chronicled in her short story collection And Venus is Blue.

Studios

Monday Music

Mary Hood worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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