Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Sarah McCarry

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, and About A Girl, the editor and publisher of the chapbook series Guillotine, and the executive director of the Eve Kososfky Sedgwick Foundation. Her work has been shortlisted for the Lambda Award, the Norton Award, and the Tiptree Award and she has received fellowships from the MacDowell, the Joint Quantum Institute, the Launchpad Writers' Workshop, and The Arctic Circle. She has taught letterpress printing, writing, and bookmaking at Sarah Lawrence College; the Penland School of Craft in Asheville, NC; the Center for Book Arts in NYC, NY; the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, OR; and in public high schools in Oregon, Washington, and New York. Her long-running serial artist book/self-published zine, Glossolalia, is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, the Portland Public Library, Columbia College, Duke University, the University of Salt Lake City, Booklyn Artists Alliance, and elsewhere.

Studios

Phi Beta

Sarah McCarry worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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