CONTACT JOYCE HACKETT
is the Spring 2006 Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy Berlin. She writes frequently about sound, trauma and memory, and the impact of history on individuals.
A writer and activist, Hackett served as the 2004-05 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at The George Washington University. Her recent community service project, Washington Write-a-Story Day, engaged hundreds of DC residents in free, place-based writing workshops; its goal was to map the city via narrative.
Joyce Hackett's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications including Harpers, The Paris Review, London Magazine, Boston Review, Prospect (UK), The Independent, Salon, and the Berlin Daily Der Tagespiegel.
Her first novel,
Disturbance of the Inner Ear,
won the 2003 the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman.
A work-in-progress, Manhattanville,
explores land use and sound history in Harlem.
At the American Academy, Hackett will be researching a
novel about Frederick Douglass and his German-Jewish mistress,
Ottilie Assing.
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