Amy Hempel: Related Content

In 2019, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 65 books.

Marguerite Feitlowitz's translation of The Other Book by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Argentina's most prominent writers and literary activists, appears in the Summer/Fall 2018 issue of The Southampton Review. 

MFA faculty member Amy Hempel is one of 14 new members to be elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

MFA faculty member Amy Hempel has been selected to receive the 22nd annual PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction. Given in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, who himself taught at Bennington from 1961 to 1984, the award includes participation in the 2009-10 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a prize of $2,500.