Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Emily Witt

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Marietta, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013, 2016

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.

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 and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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