Yellow Studio Residents
Summer 2026 Residents
Author-In-Residence
Felicia Magliula is a writer and a real estate investor. Her work has been published in Brevity, and a chapter from her memoir-in-progress won the Yellow Studio Writers' Salon. Born and raised in New Jersey, she has lived in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Denver, and the Virgin Islands. She now resides in Westchester with her husband and two young daughters. Currently, she's working on her debut memoir.
Felicia Magliula
Author-In-Residence
During my residency, I will be reworking the perspective from which my first novel, Wouldn't It Be Beautiful? is told, changing the singular first-person POV to a dual-voice third-person POV, as well as making a few other pivotal plot changes. The Residency is ideal for this project in that I hope to draw inspiration and motivation from the creative community and dedicated work space.
My novel is set in New York City in 1997, and follows Alex, a freshman at NYU who is immediately entranced by Beth – a brilliant, enigmatic author ten years her senior, who is also her professor. Beth draws her in slowly: books from The Strand, late nights at Veselka, an East Village world that feels curated just for her. It feels, for a long time, like the beginning of something real.
But it is also the beginning of something dangerous.
The novel lives in the space between desire and control, and asks how long it takes to recognize harm when it arrives dressed as love. I wanted to write an almost-love story, one with a current of mystery running through it, that holds beauty and danger so close together the reader can't always tell them apart. Sometimes they're the same thing, and we choose not to see it, and sometimes, by the time we do, it’s too late.
