Discipline: Literature – fiction

Leela Corman

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Providence, RI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2021

Leela Corman is the creator of the graphic novel Unterzakhn and the upcoming Victory Parade, the first two books in her New York trilogy, and the short comics collection We All Wish For Deadly Force. Her short comics have appeared in The Believer, Nautilus, Tablet Magazine, and The Nib.

While at MacDowell, she worked on the final drawings for her graphic novel Victory Parade.

Studios

Veltin

Leela Corman worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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