Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder. A New York Times Notable Book, Schroder has been translated into 18 languages, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize in 2014. Amity is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship. She currently teaches at Yale.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a novel about a couple who forsake conventional life in order to live on a boat with their young children. In her two-week residency, she was able to complete the climax of her novel, a piece of prose about 35 pages long.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…
