Sarah Hepola is the author of the memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, a New York Times bestseller. Her stories have appeared in the NYT Magazine, the Guardian, Elle, Slate, Texas Monthly, and Salon, where she was a long-time editor. She also contributes personal essays to NPR's "Fresh Air."
While at MacDowell, she worked on a memoir, soon to be sold, about arriving in her forties without a child or husband despite wanting both. The book explores her relationship with motherhood, sexuality, and her own body as it tracks a changing culture, particularly for women.
Built
in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by
its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also
designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio,
solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping
views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…
