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![Portland Sea Dogs](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/portland_sea_dogs300x225.jpg?itok=EDnNXEuD)
In addition to teaching Spanish and French at Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, ME, Emily Davison MA '07 also tutors for another group of students: the Boston Red Sox.
![Monuments](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Monuments300x225.jpg?itok=IAq0HbLW)
Shortly after sculpture Maren Hassinger ’69 finished graduate school, she sat in her studio in Los Angeles and set the tone for her future.
![Alter Architects](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Kevin-Alter300x225.jpg?itok=UQStd0IS)
The Constant Springs Residence, designed by Kevin Alter ’85, was featured as the cover story in the March/April issue of Dwell.
![RYOT and Vice](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/RYOT-VICE300x225.jpg?itok=_wrNe8sE)
Immersive entertainment studio RYOT, led by co-founder and CEO Bryn Mooser ’01, is partnering with Vice on a new series of documentaries.
![Sarai Walker's Dietland](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/WalkerSarai_Dietland_EntertainmentWeekly_1200x750px.jpg?itok=Ow4ykVwq)
Dietland, a novel by Sarai Walker MFA '03, premiered in June as a TV series on AMC.
![Cosmo Whyte](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/CosmoWyhte300x225.jpg?itok=v87AruhH)
Cosmo Whyte '05 has been named a winner of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's 2018-19 Working Artist Project Fellowship, along with artists Myra Greene and Krista Clark.
![Carlos Mendez-Dorantes](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Carlos-Mendez-Dorantes440x300_sfw.jpg?itok=P646CR5T)
At Bennington, scientific education includes hands-on research, faculty mentorship, and ample opportunity to explore questions both within a chosen discipline and beyond.
![The Feral Detective](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Feral-Detective300x225.jpg?itok=DmjyVAj_)
Kroll & Co. Entertainment has acquired the film rights to The Feral Detective, the upcoming novel from Jonathan Lethem '86.
![The Passion of Marta](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/the-passion-of-marta300x225.jpg?itok=4izxH5kN)
The Passion of Marta, the second novel from Caren Umbarger '76, was named a 2017 Silver Winner for the Nautilus Book Awards for Fiction: Self-Published & Small Press.
![Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/elisabeth-moss-michael-stuhlbarg300x225.jpg?itok=RjFUaHPW)
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale) and Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) have been cast in the feature film Shirley, adapted from the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell MFA '09.
![Lily Houghton](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Lily-Houghton300x225_0.jpg?itok=M17eLo5E)
Many playwrights consider the theater and its network of artists as a home and family. For Lily Houghton ’17, however, this notion is particularly literal.
![Morgan Jerkins](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/MorganJerkins300x225_1.jpg?itok=dRRnI_U9)
When Morgan Jerkins MFA ’16 graduated from Princeton, she expected to get a job as an editorial assistant in New York City, be serendipitously discovered, and be launched into literary stardom.
![Theater](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Theater300x225.jpg?itok=30IOgAdV)
New roles, new readings, the Tony Awards, and The Last O.G. See where you can spot Bennington drama alumni this summer!
![Epiphany Lit Mag](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/epiphany300x225.jpg?itok=vlbBMPVk)
Amber Wheeler Bacon MFA '18 is an honoree of Epiphany Lit Mag's inaugural Breakout 8 award for emerging writers.
![The Other Season](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Seattle-Rep300x225.jpg?itok=a5ocwtQR)
Lily Houghton '17 has received an emerging playwright commission from Seattle Repertory Theatre's the Other Season.
![Martha Grover](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Martha-Grover300x225.jpg?itok=CnC20jqF)
In March, Woodbury Grant recipient Martha Grover ’02 returned to Bennington as a visiting ceramics artist.
![Amy Gerstler](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/amy-gerstler300x225.jpg?itok=hPo0aI8m)
Poet and Bennington Writing Seminars alum Amy Gerstler MFA '00 has been awarded a prestigious 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
![Sylvan Esso](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sylvan%20Esso%20300x225.jpg?itok=A0uP4EgL)
The latest tour of electronic/folk duo Sylvan Esso, featuring vocalist-songwriter Amelia Meath '10, includes a sold-out show at MassMoCA on March 31.
![Michael Pollan](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/michael-pollan%20300x225.jpg?itok=1cikiAq2)
The latest book from journalist, food reform advocate, and award-winning author Michael Pollan '76 will explore how mind-altering psychedelics might be used to treat depression, anxiety, and addiction.
![Jordan Thomas](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Jordan%20Thomas%20300x225.jpg?itok=enoEOAc0)
Once an S.E.C. regulator, now thriving as a lawyer for whistle-blowers, Jordan Thomas '92 has built one of the top legal practices in the country defending those who expose corporate wrongdoing.
![Memento Park](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/memento%20park%20300x225.jpg?itok=Dzhas28s)
How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?
![Morgan Jerkins](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/MorganJerkins300x225.jpg?itok=TCspkS8P)
This Will be My Undoing, an essay collection by Morgan Jerkins MFA ’16, debuted at #7 on The New York Times bestseller list.
![Sibyl Kempson '95](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/SibylKempson_BW300x225.jpg?itok=R3PJIw_C)
Sibyl Kempson '95 is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-career.
![The Nubian Word for Flowers](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Nubian%20Word%20for%20Flowers%20300x225.jpg?itok=eBKSaQVW)
Carole Ione Lewis '59 recently premiered a major opera work in New York entitled The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, written and directed by Lewis with music and sound design by her partner, the late Pauline Oliveros, a composer and pioneer in American electronic music.
![Maya Healers](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Maya%20Healers%20300x225.jpg?itok=eSITTw6r)
Fran Antmann ’69 recently published Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (Nirala Publications, 2017).
![Madeline Best performs at The Chocolate Factory Theater](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/chocolate-factory%20300x225_0.jpg?itok=5hyRkekr)
The Chocolate Factory Theater, founded by Executive Director Sheila Lewandowski ’97 and Artistic Director Brian Rogers ’95, has been a staple of the Queens arts scene since its first season in 2005.
![Joan Tower](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/joan%20tower%20300x225.jpg?itok=1arck36y)
In honor of composer Joan Tower ’61 and her 80th birthday, New England Conservatory featured her music during the month of February.
![Holland Taylor](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/TaylorHolland_600x450_2.jpg?itok=xUMtm_3f)
Tony Nominee Holland Taylor ’64 has landed a leading role in the upcoming NBC pilot, Guess Who Died.
![The Sky is Yours](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/the%20sky%20is%20yours.jpg?itok=EmM9axty)
The Sky Is Yours, the debut novel by Chandler Klang Smith ’05, is receiving national recognition as one of 2018’s great reads.
![Photograph by Sally Mann](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sally%20Mann_A%20thousand%20Crossings.jpg?itok=HiuU_0nv)
The first major survey of celebrated photographer Sally Mann '73 to travel internationally investigates how Mann's relationship with her native land–a place rich in literary and artistic traditions but troubled by history–has shaped her work.