Discipline: Literature – fiction

Annie Hartnett

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Providence, RI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake, which was named one of the best books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews and the Chicago Review of Books, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and a finalist for the New England Book Award.

While at MacDowell Annie completed her (still untitled but otherwise finished) second novel. The darkly comic story is about a family who lives on the border of a secret hunting preserve in New Hampshire.

Studios

Phi Beta

Annie Hartnett worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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