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Bennington Alumni Feature on Top Critics Picks Lists

Bennington alumni play a starring role in The Millions’ list of Most Anticipated Books of 2016, which includes works by Hannah Tennant-Moore MFA ’10, Sara Majka MFA ’09, Cynthia Sweeney MFA ’13, and Charles Bock MFA ’97, as well as faculty member Alexander Chee. 

The Millions' companion list of Most Anticipated Non-Fiction Books of 2016 includes The Abundance by Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize winning author who teaches in the MFA Writing Seminars at Bennington, as well as the translation by Anne Goldstein '71 of Jhumpa Lahiri's Italian language In Other Words.

In addition, KooKooLand by Gloria Norris ’76, was picked by editors at O, Oprah Magazine for its list of 16 Books to Start 2016 Off Right.