Creative Writing Faculty

A.M. Homes

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About

A.M. Homes is a Washington D.C. native, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Iowa Writers Workshop and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Her most recent novel, The Unfolding, is longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice Prize. Her previous books include May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Homes’ memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of being found by her biological family and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind, was published to international acclaim. Other works include the novels: This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack; as well as the short-story collections Days of Awe, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects; the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill; and the artist's book, Appendix A:.

Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages. She writes frequently on the arts for publications such as Art Forum, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker and The New York Times and is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.

Homes is active in the world of film and serves an elected member of the Writers Guild of America East Council representing Film and Television. She was Co-Executive Producer of the television show Falling Water and worked with David E. Kelly on the adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes. Previously Homes was a writer/producer of The L Word (2004-2005) and wrote the adaptation of her first novel, Jack, for Showtime. Homes has also written original television pilots for ABC, CBS, FX and HBO.

She often collaborates with visual artists, composers, television and filmmakers on projects ranging from full scale operas, television series and creating text for museum catalogs and exhibitions. Homes started off as a playwright and painter, then studied art history, curatorial practice and critical theory and wrote about the arts for magazines and newspapers including Art Forum, Bomb, Blind Spot, The Guardian, The Financial Times and Vanity Fair, among others.

In 2022, RISE/Written in Stone, a short opera collaboration with composer Kamala Sankaram, had its world premiere at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Chunky In Heat, an operatic collaboration with six composers produced by Experiments In Opera, opened in 2019 at The Flea Theatre in NYC. Currently, Homes is working on a site specific opera, A Prize for Every Player, with composer Aaron Siegel.

Additionally, Homes has collaborated with artists such as Ghada Amer, Cecily Browne, Petah Coyne, Gregory Crewdson Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Todd Hido, Catherine Opie and Rachel Whiteread and museums and galleries including The Guggenheim Museum, The New Museum, The Whitney Museum and more.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, along with the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Homes is active in the LGBTQ community and in the arts community and has served on the Boards of Yaddo, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets and Writers, and The Elizabeth Dance Company and as advisor to The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

 

Professor Profile: Daily Princetonian

Read a profile of A.M. Homes in Princeton University’s student newspaper, Daily Princetonian, published October 21, 2015.

Campus Address

Program in Creative Writing
New South Building, Floor 6
Office 610A

Email Address

homes@princeton.edu

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