Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Marie Carter

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Astoria, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Marie Carter is a Scottish-born writer, editor, writing teacher, and tour guide. Her first book, The Trapeze Diaries, based on her experiences learning trapeze, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Her novel Holly's Hurricane was published in 2018. Carter has been a guest on NPR, and has been written about or featured in The New York Times, Queens Gazette, Huffington Post, QNS, and many other media outlets. She also appeared on PIX11 in October 2018. Her work has been published in NINETEENTH CENTURY, Hanging Loose, The Brooklyn Rail, Spectacle, and Turntable + Blue Light, among others, and in the anthologies The Best Creative Nonfiction (W. W. Norton, 2007) and Voices of Multiple Sclerosis (LaChance, 2009). Carter teaches memoir and creative writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

Studios

Banks

Marie Carter worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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