Applications are currently closed. The open call for our Spring 2027 residency will be announced in late fall/early winter, 2026.

Our residencies are open to writers, translators, musicians, artists (working in all mediums), actors, directors, dancers, etc., from around the world—anyone who is looking for uninterrupted time to create new creative work.All residencies are fully funded, which means we pay for airfare and full room and board at our 17th-century villa and cultural center in Sezze Romano, Italy. We are currently offering residencies for two weeks each in the spring and fall. Applications are currently closed. The open call for our Spring 2027 residency will be announced in late fall/early winter, 2026. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of upcoming open calls and events. Read about our current and past residents below. CURRENT RESIDENTS FALL 2026 Meg Shevenock is a writer and artist. She is the author of the poetry collection The Miraculous, Sometimes, published by Conduit Books & Ephemera, and her poems and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Lana Turner, The Panafold, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Meg has been the “reader” for visual artist Ann Hamilton, and has for many years taught poetry to gifted youth. Meg lives in Los Angeles, where she is working on her first nonfiction book. More info at www.megshevenock.com. Caitlin Lorraine Johnson is a writer based in New Mexico. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Southwest Contemporary, Des Pair Quarterly, Artist Field, and elsewhere. She has also contributed exhibition texts for The Valley, Night Gallery, and Albertz Benda. Her books, IO and Taliesin, are available from Economy Press. Chris Watts is a visual artist based in New York City and North Carolina. His practice examines alchemical healing through the experience and arrangement of color and form in space — creating expansive, transparent paintings influenced by sacral architecture, Indigenous cosmologies, and the radical imagination. Working with natural pigments drawn from geological and botanical traditions across the Americas, Watts builds meditative environments where color functions as ancestral memory and light becomes a threshold between the visible and the unseen. A 2022–23 Soros Justice Fellow, his work is held in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Mint Museum, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Jorge Luis Borges’ Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions, and Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in New York City, where he was born. PAST RESIDENTS SPRING 2026 Aziza Kasumov is a writer and translator originally from Germany and now based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been published in the Financial Times, Vice, Bloomberg News, Politico, Driftwood Press, World Literature Today, and others. She was a 2024 Oxbelly fellow in fiction and is presently at work on her first novel. Stacy Skolnik is the author of the novel The Ginny Suite and the poetry collection mrsblueeyes123.com. She is a founder and co-director of Montez Press Radio, the Lower East Side–based broadcast and performance platform. A collaborative poetry collection, Robert Frost, is forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Book Works (UK). Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, playwright, performer, and translator whose work spans poetry, theatre, visual art, and theology. Her newest books include A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, Wave of Blood (Divided, 2024), now available in Danish and Norwegian, and The Rose (Graywolf, 2025; Penguin UK, 2026). Her Obie-winning play Telephone (2009) has been staged across the US and internationally, with a new production by PETE in Portland, OR this summer, and her performances include Divine Justice (Performance Space NY, 2022), Mortal Kombat (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015), Lorna (Martin E. Segal Theater, 2013) & many others. Reines is the translator of TIQQUN's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (2011), Baudelaire's My Heart Laid Bare (2011), and others. She has held named chairs at UC Berkeley and Scripps College, and has taught poetry at universities and community organizations across the United States and Europe. Since 2020, Reines has led Invisible College, an online hub for the study of poetry, sacred texts, and the arts. Michael Ilisoi is an artist based in Boston who works in oil painting, drawing, and lithography to create figurative, abstract works. He is a graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Maeve Barry has won the annual fiction prizes from The Sewanee Review, The Iowa Review and Ninth Letter. She lives in Massachusetts and is working on her first novel. FALL 2025 Lucie Elven is a writer, editor, and journalist. She is a frequent contributor to NOON and The London Review of Books. Her work can also be found in The Drift, Granta, Le Monde diplomatique, and The New Yorker. Her first book was The Weak Spot in 2021 (Soft Skull, Prototype, Forlaget Atlanten). She lives and works in London. Kevin Oliver, Jr. is a saxophonist from Atlanta, GA currently based in New York City. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and has performed with Jon Batiste, Endea Owens & the Cookout, the Roy Hargrove Big Band, a