Catherine Carberry


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Woodstock, NY
Residencies: 2022
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Catherine Carberry’s fiction has appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Guernica, North American Review, Indiana Review, Harvard Review, and Tin House. Her fiction has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and has been featured on NPR.

A recent Susannah McCorkle Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference, she's currently revising a novel that interweaves the true story of the women leaders of Puerto Rico's independence movement with the diaspora and queer Nuyorican experience. She is the product of parents from two islands: Puerto Rico and Manhattan, and can't get enough of Nuyorican music, stories, poetry, and plays. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her partner and their three dogs.

At MacDowell, Catherine completed a revision of her novel-in-progress, tentatively titled Bitter Tropic.

Studios

Mansfield

Catherine Carberry worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…

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