Amelia Possanza is the author of Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives, winner of a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Electric Literature, and The Queer Love Project, as well as on NPR's Invisibilia. She is the co-founder of the literary PR firm Lavender Public Relations, teaches at the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, and coaches with Team New York Aquatics.
While at MacDowell, Possanza researched and wrote sections of a creative nonfiction project that explores death, trash, and what we leave behind.
Portrait by Becca Farsace
Studios
Chapman
Amelia Possanza worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman
Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her
husband, composer George Alexander Chapman.
Symmetrically
massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural,
unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of
slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central,
peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…
