Olivia Laing


Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Based in Cambridge, UK and New York, NY
Residencies: 2011

Olivia Laing is a writer and critic and the author of To the River and The Trip to Echo Spring. She's currently working on The Lonely City, an investigation into the complex cross-currents that exist between loneliness, sex, technology,, and art. She was formerly deputy literary editor of the Observer, and writes for numerous publications, including The Guardian, New Statesman, Granta and The New York Times. She's currently 2014 Writer in Residence at the Britsh Library.

Studios

Barnard

Olivia Laing worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…

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