Artists' Fellowship - 2005
(NYFA Prize Winner)
Nonfiction
Artist Statement:
Whether I am writing essays or memoir, my work always tends toward two interrelated themes: a sense of history and a sense of place. As a historian and archivist, the stories I am drawn to are local ones, and I explore the ways in which setting and sensibility intertwine. Even when writing about my own life, I feel the need to bring the story outside of myself and, in some way, root it in history.
More about the Artist:
NYFA Prize Winner, 2005
Melissa Haley is an archivist living in New York City. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Scholar, Commonplace, and Post Road. She attended New York University and Barnard College, where she studied American History. Her master's thesis on women astronauts was included in an N.Y.U. bicentennial time capsule. She was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
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