Welcome to Studio Work
Hi! I’m Genevieve Hudson, author of the novel Boys of Alabama, the short story collection Pretend We Live Here, and a tiny book about queer heroes called A Little in Love with Everyone. My second novel Headfirst is forthcoming with Roxane Gay Books. I’ve received creative arts fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, Caldera Arts, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Vermont Studio Center. I occasionally teach writing at Tin House, and I’m affiliate fiction faculty for the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. While I’m not rambling around, I live in rainy and wonderful Portland, Oregon.
Lately, I’ve been trying something new. I’ve been branching out from prose and trying my hand at other art forms, mainly making cartoons and drawing. Drawing is what I did endlessly (for hours!) as a kid. But as I got older, I stopped. I became a “serious writer” and most of my creative energy went to honing that craft. Re-learning to draw and experimenting with graphic forms and illustration has been fun in the way things are fun when you don’t know the rules. It’s been refreshing to carve out a creative space where I can be a beginner and experiment.
Studio Work is my newest art project.
With Studio Work, I’ll be exploring and documenting my experience drawing, illustrating my day, making zines, watercoloring, and playing in new art forms.
Along the way, I’ll share what’s inspiring me, obsessing me, and how I’m thinking about creative process, community, and shaping a craft. My hunch is that this new mode will feed directly into my writing life. I’m sure I’ll talk about that, too.
Thanks for going on this journey with me.
Onward ✏️
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