Disciplines: Literature – fiction

A.M. Homes

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
Residencies: 2025

A.M. Homes is the author of the novels The Unfolding, May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack; the short-story collections Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects; the memoirs The Mistress's Daughter and Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill; and the artist's book Appendix A.

Homes often collaborates with artists creating hybrid and collaborative pieces for specific exhibitions and installations. She's worked with are Ghada Amer, Cecily Browne, Petah Coyne, Gregory Crewdson Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Todd Hido, Catherine Opie, and Rachel Whiteread, among others.

Homes writes about the arts for publications such as Art Forum, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She was Co-Executive Producer of David E. Kelly and Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes and Falling Water on USA and a Writer and Producer on the original L WORD. They’ve created pilots for all major networks and streamers.

At MacDowell, Homes wrote fiction and researched trees and plant life, all part of a novel in progress that will be published in 2027.

Studios

Garland

A.M. Homes 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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