Discipline: Literature – fiction

Annie DeWitt

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Roxbury, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Annie DeWitt's debut novel White Nights In Split Town City, out from Tyrant Books in Summer 2016, made The New York Times Book Review’s “Short List” and has received accolades from BookForum, Interview Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Millions, Vogue, amongst others. Her debut story collection – Closest Without Going Over – was shortlisted for the Mary McCarthy Prize. Stories in the collection have been translated into Latvian and Swedish and have appeared widely in the U.S. DeWitt's writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Granta, Tin House, The Believer, Guernica, Esquire, BOMB, Electric Literature, Bookforum, NOON, The LA Review of Books, The Iowa Review, The American Reader, art+culture, Poets and Writers, amongst others. DeWitt was a founding editor of the literary magazine Gigantic. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia School of the Arts. She has taught at Columbia University, Barnard, Bard, Bennington, Skidmore, and The New School. She is currently the founder and director of Roxbury Writers Residency in the Catskills.

Studios

Veltin

Annie DeWitt worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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