Fiona Alison Duncan
Fiona Alison Duncan is a Canadian-American writer, artist, curator, and organizer.[1][2] Duncan’s first novel, Exquisite Mariposa, was awarded a 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction and long-listed for The Golden Poppy Book Award in 2019.[3][4] Duncan is the founder of Hard to Read, a literary social practice on sex, love, and communication, and its spin-off, Pillow Talk.[5][6] She has curated numerous international contemporary art exhibitions including Pippa Garner's first institutional exhibition in Europe at the Kunstverein München in Munich.[7][8][9]
Early life
Duncan was born in London, Ontario.[10] She later moved to Los Angeles and then to New York.
Work
Duncan has published fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and poetry in numerous publications including Vogue, Artforum, New York Magazine, PIN-UP, Spike, Texte zur Kunst, and The White Review.
She is the founder of Hard to Read, a literary social practice of live events with media broadcasts, bookselling, publishing, and fine art exhibitions catered to women and queer history.[11]
In 2019, Duncan published her first novel, titled Exquisite Mariposa.[12][13] The novel is set in Los Angeles and is a phenomenological journey at the end of a narrator's twenties as they explore modern day technology, friendship, astrology, psychedelics, work, fame, and fortune. The novel won the won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Prize for Bisexual Fiction.
Duncan was a recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a 2022 Canadian Women Artists’ Awards[14]. Both awards were used to co-curate artist Pippa Garner's first institutional exhibition in Europe at the Kunstverein München in Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland and the Frac Lorraine in Metz, France.[15] Duncan announced that she has begun working closely with the artist to write her biography.
Awards and honours
- 2022, Canadian Women Artists’ Award recipient in Literary Arts[16]
- 2020, Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction
- 2019, Long-listed, The Golden Poppy Book Award
Publications
- Exquisite Mariposa (Soft Skull Press, 2019). ISBN 9781593765781
See also
References
- ^ "Fiona Alison Duncan - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant". www.artswriters.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Fiona Alison Duncan | Contributors | Gagosian Quarterly". gagosian.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ ""I want a full refund."". www.bookforum.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ Block, Elizabeth (2019-11-06). "Fiona Alison Duncan's Exquisite Mariposa". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "At Hard to Read, Everybody's A Writer and Everybody's A Reader". Literary Hub. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Exquisite Mariposa: Fiona Alison Duncan with Jamieson Webster (SEAPORT)". McNally Jackson Books. 2019-09-14. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Fiona Duncan introduces the 'Hard to Read' monthly lit series with a poem by Alicia Novella Vasquez | atractivoquenobello". www.aqnb.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Fiona Alison Duncan". www.highsnobiety.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Pippa Garner - Exhibitions - Kunsthalle Zürich". www.kunsthallezurich.ch. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Fiona Alison Duncan, Maud Madsen, and Maryam Mir Receive 2022 Canadian Women Artists' Awards - NYFA". NYFA. 2022-11-16. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Hard to Read, organized by Fiona Alison Duncan, 6PM (5:30 doors) | Exhibitions | Bridget Donahue". www.bridgetdonahue.nyc. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "On experimenting with togetherness". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ EXQUISITE MARIPOSA | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Nast, Condé (2022-10-05). "The Boldly Queer, Proudly Off-Kilter World of Pippa Garner". Vogue. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "PORTFOLIO: PIPPA GARNER". Artforum. Vol. 61, no. 2. October 2022. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Fiona Alison Duncan, Maud Madsen, and Maryam Mir Receive 2022 Canadian Women Artists' Awards - NYFA". NYFA. New York Foundation for the Arts. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
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- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Bisexual writers
- 21st-century American women artists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- Writers from London, Ontario
- Canadian curators
- American curators
- American women curators
- Canadian women curators
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