Discipline: Literature – fiction

Lucy Ferriss

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Hartford, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987

Lucy Ferriss is the author of nine books, mostly fiction, including the recent novels Dishonor (2015) and The Lost Daughter (2012). Other recent work appears in The New York Times, Fourth Genre, and Missouri Review, and has received recognition from the NEA, the Mid-List First Series, and the International Society for Narrative. She is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College and divides her time between Connecticut and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

Studios

Garland

Lucy Ferriss worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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