Jenni Quilter is from New Zealand and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She worked on a collection of essays about bodybuilding, Norway, piracy, Angela Carter, Nancy Myers, and Lon Chaney (among other things). In 2015, she published Painters and Poets of the New York School: Neon in Daylight.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Jenni Quilter
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Jenni Quilter worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…