Discipline: Literature – fiction

Mikkel Rosengaard

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Mikkel Rosengaard is a three-time recipient of the Danish Art Foundation's Literary Fellowship and the author of The Invention of Ana (HarperCollins, 2018), the first Danish debut novel to be published in the U.S. since 1988. His writing has appeared in The Architectural Review, BOMB magazine, Guernica, PBS' Art21, and many other publications.

While in residence, he worked on the first draft for a new novel.

Studios

Wood

Mikkel Rosengaard worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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