Discipline: Literature – fiction

Sarah Falkner

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Ghent, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Sarah Falkner worked on her second novel, Quarry: A Natural History, as well as the multimedia performance project Rewilderment (a collaboration with Ryder Cooley). Her first novel, Animal Sanctuary, won the 7th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and is excerpted in the October online edition of The Brooklyn Rail.

Studios

Garland

Sarah Falkner worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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