Elisabeth Bailey worked on her first creative nonfiction book based on her year-long observations of a wild woodland snail. The book is an expansion of a previously published essay, "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating," which received a Pushcart Prize nomination and a notable essay listing in the Best American Essays 2003.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in MAINE
Residencies: 2009
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Studios
Calderwood
Elisabeth Tova Bailey worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…