Elena Passarello is a writer and actor who developed Let Me Clear My Throat, a collection of essays on the human voice in performance, at MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. Elena's second essay collection Animals Strike Curious Poses made the Best Books of 2017 lists of several publications, including The New York Times and the Guardian. A recipient of a Whiting Award and an Oregon Book Award, she teaches in the M.F.A. program at Oregon State University and is featured weekly on Public Radio International’s variety and culture show, “LiveWire!”
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Elena Passarello
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Corvallis, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010
More:
www.elenapassarello.com
Studios
Star
Elena Passarello worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…