Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Melissa Haley

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Jackson Heights, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

At MacDowell, Melissa Haley worked on drafts of two essays (one history, one memoir) and developed new project ideas. Her work has appeared in Common-place, The American Scholar, and Post Road.

Studios

New Jersey

Melissa Haley worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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