Meehan Crist is writer-in-residence in biological sciences at Columbia University. Previously she was editor-at-large at Nautilus and reviews editor at The Believer. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Tin House, Lapham's Quarterly, New Republic, Scientific American, and Science. She spent the bulk of her time at MacDowell working on a nonfiction book manuscript about Fiji, climate change, and the future of our shared ocean. She also worked on a long-term reporting project about veteran artists who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, she drafted an essay commissioned by The Serving Library on a feminist constructed language from '80s sci-fi novels, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, radical feminist utopias, and the untranslatability of pregnancy. She used some of the materials she worked on at MacDowell for "Climate Grief and the Visible Horizon," a lecture delivered as part of the 2018 Liverpool Biennial. She is the recipient of a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.
Meehan Crist
Studios
Eastman
Meehan Crist worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…