Lindsay Sproul, originally from Massachusetts, is a queer novelist and an assistant professor of creative writing at Loyola University New Orleans. At MacDowell, she completed the first round of edits on her debut novel, We Were Promised Spotlights, a queer coming-of-age narrative which will be published on March 24, 2020 with Putnam/Penguin Random House. Her second novel is also under contract with Putnam. Her work has appeared in such journals as Epoch, Glimmer Train, Witness, American Short Fiction, The Massachusetts Review, and others.
Lindsay Sproul
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in New Orleans, LA
Residencies: 2017, 2020
More:
lindsaysproul.com
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
We Were Promised Spotlights (novel)
Studios
Barnard
Lindsay Sproul worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…