Shelley Salamensky is a scholar, writer, and Los Angeles Review of Books contributing editor. Her last book was The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde. Her work appears in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review Daily, the Awl, the Believer, and the Wall Street Journal.
At MacDowell in 2004, Shelley completed a short story, "Last of the Schmohicans." Her novel, The Book of Life, was in progress.
During her 2005 residency, she continued work on The Book of Life.
Studios
Heyward
Shelley Salamensky worked in the Heyward studio.
The
Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The
Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for
a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for
writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and
Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…
