Disciplines: Literature – fiction

Liana Scalettar

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
Residencies: 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.

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Liana Scalettar worked in the Monday Music studio.

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