Inaugural Writer Residencies
These one-week residencies support literary artists living in southeast Louisiana in celebration of our newly constructed Writer’s Cabin. 2020-2021
These one-week residencies support literary artists living in southeast Louisiana in celebrationn of our newly constructed Writer’s Cabin. Awardees were selected by A Studio in the Woods based on their contributions and dedication to the New Orleans literary community.
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Inaugural Writer Residents
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Kristina Kay Robinson Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer, curator, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her ongoing installation and performance art project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound has been presented in exhibition at “Welcome to the Afrofuture”… -
Anya Groner Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana Anya Groner plans to use this residency to continue work on a novel. Set in Louisiana between 1911-1927, the narrative follows Simone Walsh, an Irish-American teenager living in New Orleans who is diagnosed with leprosy and sent upriver to Carville,… -
Maurice Carlos Ruffin Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was published by One World Random House. The novel was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the PEN America Open Book Prize.…