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Elijah Bailey is a Black writer from Louisiana. He has fiction in the Paris Review and in the Crab Orchard Review. He’s the winner of the Paris Review's 2025 Plimpton Prize for his short story "Social Promotion."
At MacDowell, Bailey worked on his debut novel about one summer in the life of a mother and son.
Elijah Bailey worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the…