Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction

Eren Orbey

Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Boston, MA
Residencies: 2024

Eren Orbey is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. His subjects have included copyright infringement, restorative justice, postpartum psychosis, and parental rights in cases where pregnancies result from rape. He has also contributed criticism, essays, and profiles of figures from the computer scientist David Malan to the author Joyce Maynard. Orbey graduated from Yale, where he studied computer science and English, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

At MacDowell, Orbey finished a magazine feature and worked on his first book, a memoir about his father’s murder, to be published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House.

Studios

New Jersey

Eren Orbey worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the…

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