Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction

Genese Grill

Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Plainfield, VT
Residencies: 2016

Genese Grill is a writer, translator, visual artist, and independent scholar living in Burlington, VT. She is the author of The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's "The Man without Qualities" (Camden House, 2012) and the translator of a collection of small prose by Robert Musil, entitled Thought Flights (Contra Mundum, 2015). Her collection of essays, Portals: Reflections on the Spirit in Matter, was finished at MacDowell in April 2016. Essays from the collection have appeared in The Georgia Review, Numero Cinq, and The Missouri Review (as a Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winner).

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Portals: Reflections on the Spirit in Matter (book)

Studios

Heyward

Genese Grill worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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