Discipline: Literature – fiction

Wendy Salinger

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982, 1983, 1985, 2003

Wendy Salinger is the author of Folly River, which won the National Poetry Series, and a graduate of Duke and the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at MacDowell. She directs the Schools Project at the 92nd St. Y's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City.

At MacDowell in 2003, she worked on a book about recovered memory and revised the manuscript of her novel Victor Dying. Excerpts from the novel have appeared in the Kenyon Review.

Studios

Monday Music

Wendy Salinger worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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