Amanda Gersh, M.F.A., is a fiction writer living in Portland, OR. While at MacDowell she worked on short stories about growing up in the 1980s in South Africa, which have been published in such magazines as One Story, and The Mississippi Review and anthologized in Dinaane: Short Stories by South African Women.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Amanda Gersh
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
More:
amandagersh.com
Studios
Wood
Amanda Gersh worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…