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.

Inaugural Writer Residents

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 used her 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, Louisiana, to…