Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Amy Gall

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Amy Gall’s writing has appeared in, among others, Tin House, Vice, Poets & Writers, Glamour Magazine, and the anthology Mapping Queer Spaces. Recycle, a collection of collages and text that she co-wrote with author Sarah Gerard was published by Pacific Press in 2018. While at MacDowell Amy Gall completed an essay about the intersection between whiteness and illness in her mixed-race family. It will be included in What It Is And What It Is Called, her forthcoming collection of linked essays about queer bodies and finding pleasure.

Studios

Star

Amy Gall worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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