Emily Witt worked on a short nonfiction book about the Nigerian video movie industry. Her first book, Future Sex, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016.
Emily Witt
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in Marietta, GA
Residencies: 2013, 2016
More:
emilywitt.net
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Studios
Star
Emily Witt 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…