Discipline: Literature – fiction

Alix Ohlin

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Easton, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
Alix Ohlin is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Ohlin became the chair of The University of British Columbia’s creative writing program in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition to her appointment as chair, Ohlin also joined the program as an associate professor where she specializes in teaching fiction, screenwriting, and environmental writing, as well as serving as a mentor to younger writers. Most recently, Ohlin taught at McGill University as the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence for 2016-17. Ohlin was previously an English professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College M.F.A. Program for Writers in North Carolina, and has taught writing at the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Ohlin published her debut novel The Missing Person in 2006, and followed up with the short story collection Babylon and Other Stories, on which she worked at MacDowell, in 2007. Her second novel, Inside, and her second short story collection, Signs and Wonders, were both published on the same day in 2012. Inside was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Studios

Monday Music

Alix Ohlin 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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