Discipline: Literature – fiction

Celine Keating

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994, 1997

Celine Keating was born in New York, NY in 1949. She grew up in Queens and attended Queens College, CUNY as an undergraduate and earned her master’s of creative writing from City College, CUNY. She is the award-winning author of two novels, Layla (2011), a Huffington Post featured title, and Play for Me (2015), a finalist in the International Book Awards, the Indie Excellence Awards, and the USA Book Awards. In addition to her novels, Keating has also published many short stories in literary magazines including Appearances, Echoes, Emry’s Journal, Mount Hope, The North Stone Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Santa Clara Review. Her short story, Home, received the first-place 2014 Hackney Award for Short Fiction. Recurring themes in her writing include the arts, activism, and the environment. She is currently on the board of an environmental organization called The Concerned Citizens of Montauk and of the National Women’s Book Association. She lives in Manhattan and Montauk with her husband, Mark Levy.

Studios

Wood

Celine Keating worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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