Discipline: Literature – fiction

Patricia Volk

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984, 2000, 2014

Patricia Volk is the author of the memoir Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, as well as four works of fiction. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Bennington College. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York, The New Yorker, and Playboy. She lives in New York City.

Patricia worked on her third collection of short stories and a nonfiction book about the nature of obsession while in residence. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of a memoir and four works of fiction.