Autumn Womack


Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Based in New York, NY
Residencies: 2026

Autumn Womack is a New York based writer and professor at Princeton University. She was awarded the William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association for her first book and is a 2025-26 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography.

At MacDowell, Womack worked on completing her book The Wanderer: Toni Morrison and the Art of Creativity, which will be published by Knopf in 2027.

Studios

Garland

Autumn Womack worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally 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 in2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening…

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