Dorothy Spears

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Dorothy’s features and profiles appear frequently in the New York Times.  A regular contributor to Art In America, she is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).  From 1986 to 19990, she was a curator and sales representative at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.

Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying (Open City/Grove Atlantic 2009), an anthology of short fiction and personal essays, attests to Dorothy’s lifelong love of literature (she earned her BA degree at Brown in Comparative Literature).  Her personal essays have been published in the New York Times, and on mrbellersneighborhood.com.

She lives and works in New York.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2017*

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