RAINBOW LAKE — For the second year, Adirondack Center for Writing and Adirondack Swim and Trip Camp have partnered to create a unique writer-in-residence position, offering three weeks of time and space for a writer to work, recreate, and enjoy all the North Country has to offer.

This summer ACW is welcoming award-winning short story writer Joy Baglio of Northampton, Massachussets for July and the director of the Progressive Teaching Institute in New York City, Noah Arhm Choi, in August.

During her time in residence, Baglio is leading a week-long speculative “world building” writing camp at ACW for teens; the class began Monday. She’ll also be working on finishing her first novel, which is based on one of her early short stories, “How to Survive on Land.” Lastly, she’ll focus on a screenplay adaptation of her short story “Ron,” originally published in Tin House. Baglio’s work has been supported by many of the country’s most prestigious residencies and institutions, including Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee and The Kerouac Project, where she was the spring 2023 writer-in-residence and lived in the house where Jack Kerouac wrote “The Dharma Bums.” Originally from Buffalo, Baglio visited the Adirondacks frequently growing up and looks forward to re-discovering some favorite swimming holes.

In August, Choi will return to the Adirondacks for the three-week residency. Choi has often been an instructor at ACW’s long-running High School Writing Retreat, held annually in fall at Paul Smith’s College. This past spring, Choi brought their professional background in diversity education to Saranac Lake High School for a day-long workshop for students and faculty on empathy, identity, and belonging. Choi is a poet, the author of “Cut To Bloom” (Write Bloody Publishing, 2020) and a Lambda Literary Writer in the schools.