Vimi Bajaj


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Oak Brook, IL
Residencies: 2022
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Vimi Bajaj is both a physician and a fiction writer, having graduated from the Bennington Writing Seminars. While she is currently working on a novel based in her native India, her other works have been published in journals such as Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, The Asian American Literary Review, The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, and others.

While at MacDowell, Vimi wrote the last seven chapters of her novel-in-progress tentatively titled Vermilion. A previous version of the novel won the 2020 Books Pipeline Competition Grand Prize in literary fiction. After MacDowell, she plans to undertake the final revisions.

Studios

Barnard

Vimi Bajaj 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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