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When she arrived at MacDowell, Dale Megan Healey (Megan) was at work on her first book, The Limit of the Twilight, about grief, photography, and visual culture. In residence, however, she took a break from that larger project to write a chapbook called Severances. Her experience at MacDowell reminded her that sometimes looking away from something can help one see it clearer.
Healey teaches creative nonfiction and arts writing classes at The Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons.
Severances (Chapbook)
Megan Healey worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…