Discipline: Literature – fiction

Henry Giardina

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

While at MacDowell Henry Giardina worked on his first novel and a nonfiction work about early cinema and psychology. His essays, interviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker.com, The Believer, and the Paris Review Daily, among other publications.

Studios

Wood

Henry Giardina worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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