Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Brad Fox

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022
More: bradfox.org

Brad Fox is a writer living in New York. He has worked as a researcher and story consultant for novelists and filmmakers, and he had an earlier career as a journalist and relief worker in the Balkans, Mexico, the Arab World, and Turkey. He will be a resident at Still Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, this winter.

His stories, articles, and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, Public Domain Review, and The Whitney Biennial. His novel, To Remain Nameless, was published by Rescue Press in 2020. He is at work on a series of essays about toxic legacies, race, ethics, and traditional medicine.

At MacDowell, Brad completed his forthcoming work of nonfiction, The Bathysphere Book, and did exploratory work on a new book of essays on housing injustice, toxic legacies, and American identity.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Brad Fox worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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