Jordy Rosenberg


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Florence, MA
Residencies: 2025
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novels Confessions of the Fox (2018) and Night Night Fawn (2026) both from Random House/One World, as well as a scholarly monograph about 18th-century religious enthusiasts. Confessions of the Fox was a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, and longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award. Confessions has been recognized by The New Yorker, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature, and the Feminist Press, among other places, as one of the Best Books of 2018, and is published by Atlantic Books in the UK, Allen & Unwin in Australia/New Zealand, and Paseka in Czechia. Rosenberg’s work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, The Lannan Foundation, The Banff Centre, The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies.

Rosenberg is a professor in the Department of English and Associated M.F.A. Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

At MacDowell, Jordy worked on a short story, "The Thousand-Year Thought," for an anthology of revolutionary speculative fiction edited by Eman Abdelhadi and Michelle O'Brien, forthcoming from Haymarket Press.

Studios

Calderwood

Jordy Rosenberg worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…

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