Discipline: Literature – fiction

Louisa Hall

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Austin, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Louisa Hall, Austin is at work on her third novel. Her second novel, Speak, was a New York Times Editor's Choice. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Studios

MacDowell

Louisa Hall worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

Learn more