V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan is a fiction writer and journalist whose debut novel, Love Marriage (Random House), was named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008 and long-listed for the Orange Prize. The book, set in Sri Lanka and its diasporas, was also translated into Italian, French, Serbian, Romanian, and German. Her work has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among others. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Phillips Exeter, she is currently the Delbanco Visiting Professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
V.V. Ganeshananthan
Studios
Wood
V.V. Ganeshananthan 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…