Discipline: Literature – fiction

Kathryn Scanlan

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2025
More: www.kathrynscanlan.com

Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog, The Dominant Animal, and Kick the Latch (winner of the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize). Her work has appeared in NOON, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2021 she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in literature; in 2024 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. Originally from Iowa, she lives in Los Angeles. She has degrees in painting, writing, and English from the University of Iowa and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

At MacDowell, Scanlan worked on a novel-in-progress.

Portrait by Caleb Lyons

Studios

Schelling

Kathryn Scanlan worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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