Discipline: Literature – fiction

Maud Casey

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009, 2018

Maud Casey is the author of five works of fiction, most recently The City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary Press, 2022); and a nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions (Graywolf). She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The City of Incurable Women grew out of a collaboration with the photographer Laura Larson. She lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the University of Maryland.

During her 2009 residency, she worked on her novel The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury, 2014) and during her 2018 residency, she began work on her novel-in-progress, provisionally titled Sometimes the Light.

Studios

Monday Music

Maud Casey 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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