Discipline: Literature

Yannick Murphy

Discipline: Literature
Region: Kingston, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988

Yannick Murphy is an American novelist and short story writer. She graduated from New York University and studied with Gordon Lish. She lived in New York and California. She now lives in Vermont, with her husband and their three children.

Portrait by Clark Hsiao

Studios

Mixter

Yannick Murphy worked in the Mixter studio.

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…

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