Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jennifer Gilmore

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Easton, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Jennifer Gilmore is the author of three novels for adults, including The Mothers (Scribner, 2013), which is currently being adapted for film with Gilmore writing the script and executive producing, Something Red (Scribner, 2009), a New York Times Notable Book and Golden Country (Scribner, 2006), also a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. (Scribner, 2006). She is also the author of two young adult novels, We Were Never Here (Harper, 2016) and most recently, If Only (Harper, July 2018)

Her work critical and creative non-fiction work has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies including The Atlantic, Bomb, BookForum, the Huffington Post, the Jewish Forward, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Real Simple, Salon, Tin House, Vogue and the Washington Post. She has has taught creative writing and literature at Barnard College, Cornell University, Fordham University, The New School, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University and Harvard University. She is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College and lives in Easton, PA.

Studios

Banks

Jennifer Gilmore worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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