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Discipline:Literature – nonfiction
Amanda Hess
Discipline:Literature – nonfiction
Region:Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships:2023
Amanda Hess is a critic-at-large at the New York Times focusing on internet and pop culture. In 2015 she was awarded the National Magazine Award in Public Interest. Her criticism, profiles and features have appeared in the New York Times magazine, ESPNthe Magazine, Elle, New York magazine, Slate, and Pacific Standard.
While at MacDowell, Hess researched and drafted parts of her debut book, a work of memoir and criticism about her digital identity crisis as a new mother under the influence of popular technologies, to be published in 2024 by Doubleday.
Studios
Garland (formerly Baetz)
Amanda Hess worked in the Garland (formerly Baetz) studio.
Marian
MacDowell and friends 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 in…