Disciplines: Literature – fiction

Jordy Rosenberg

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Region: Florence, MA
Residencies: 2025

Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the Night Night Fawn (Random House/One World 2026), and the novel Confessions of the Fox, 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, longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, HuffPost, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature, and others.

Confessions of the Fox is in development with Lilly Wachowski (the Matrix) and Melissa Bernstein (Breaking Bad). He 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.

Portrait by Beowulf Sheehan

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. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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