Discipline: Literature – fiction

Liana Scalettar

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000

Liana Scalettar is an American writer, educator. She worked on her first novel, The Hague, while at MacDowell. Her critical work is included in Queer Frontiers; University of Wisconsin Press, 2000; and Mujeres Fuera del Quincio, Biblos, Buenos Aires, 2000

Liana Scalettar’s fiction and poetry have appeared in American Short Fiction, Arts & Letters, Drunken Boat, Entasis, Failbetter, Gutcult, LIT, Nidus, Sentence and Washington Square; an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress was published recently in Freerange Nonfiction’s web site. Awards include a Pushcart Prize nomination, recognition by Drunken Boat’s panliterary awards and Failbetter’s tenth anniversary novella contest, a Glimmer Train prize, and the Amanda Davis scholarship of the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and Vermont Studio Center.

Studios

Monday Music

Liana Scalettar worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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