Malerie Willens


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Los Angeles, CA
Residencies: 2026
Portrait by: Oriana Camara

Malerie Willens is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Granta, Tin House, The Sewanee Review, AGNI, The Missouri Review, Stranger’s Guide, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading, Open City, and other literary magazines and anthologies. She is a Pushcart Prize recipient, an ASME finalist in Fiction, and an alumna of the Sarah Lawrence graduate Writing program.

While at MacDowell, Willens devoted her time to the completion of a novel manuscript.

Studios

Sorosis

Malerie Willens worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain…

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