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Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Prize for Fiction, and the novel The Regional Office is Under Attack!
Author of Gender Trouble, one of the most important works of philosophy and gender theory of the postmodern era
Curator, producer, poet, choreographer, and performance artist whose works #negrophobia (nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award) and Séancers have toured throughout Europe, appearing in major festivals. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.
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Founding member of the Compass Players along with Alan Alda and Alan Arkin ’55 in the 1960s, and actress best known for her roles in Goodfellas and The Sopranos
Screenwriter whose many credits include Good Morning, Vietnam, M*A*S*H, and Monk
Maria Dahvana Headley is a New York Times-bestselling novelist, translator, poet, and dramatist whose work unearths hidden meanings, characters, and possibilities in stories we think we know. Her version of the literary world is one in which all the genres merge, all the storytellers are equally thrilling, and there are definitely dragons.
Practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and author of the critically acclaimed book of short stories, Scary Old Sex
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Louise Bokkenheuser, an MFA candidate in Fiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars, was a crime reporter, gossip columnist and war correspondent before becoming an editor. Her first book, a memoir, was published in 2009.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the poet Louise Bogan and the painters Jackson Pollock and Esteben Vicente whose writings on literature and art have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Art in America, The Nation, and ARTnews
The acclaimed poetry of Michael Dumanis weaves together memories of childhood, diaspora, and dislocation.
Nicolette Polek '15 is the author of Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020). She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and is currently based in New York.
Published his first novel, Less Than Zero, while at Bennington, and went on to critical acclaim for books like American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction
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Award-winning novelist and biographer of Georgia O’Keeffe
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Puloma Ghosh is a fiction writer from Boston, Massachusetts, she is currently working on a collection of short speculative fiction.
Brooke Allen’s articles in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and her books on topics ranging from the American founding fathers’ religious beliefs to the life of Benazir Bhutto have received critical acclaim.
Writer for GQ, McSweeney’s, Jezebel, Vulture, and New York Magazine and the television series Sirens and Gracie and Frankie, who was declared one of the “funniest women on Twitter” by The Huffington Post
Former Editor-in-Chief of Ladies' Home Journal and current Senior Vice President of AARP
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His latest novel The Family Clause (FSG) was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Introduced the world to Julia Child, James Beard, and Madhur Jaffrey as senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf
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Annie DeWitt is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her debut novel, White Nights In Split Town City, was lauded as "Masterful,” and “full of syntactic daring." "The study of a failing family—how it is dismantled from within, how it is threatened by the world outside" –BookForum
Mary Ruefle '74 is an award-winning poet and erasure artist. Her latest poetry collection, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Award and longlisted for the NBA and the NBCC Award.
Deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former editor of the European edition of TIME magazine, and author of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
A combined interest in LGBTQ studies, comparative literature, film studies, and Eastern European culture is at the center of Alexandar Mihailovic’s writing and teaching. Among other subjects, he writes and teaches about artificial intelligence in literature and popular culture, postcolonial women writers and filmmakers, and Russian Jewish literature.
Stefania Heim is an award-winning poet, scholar, translator, editor and educator, committed to the intersections between these pursuits.
Matthew Groner is a fiction writer working on his first novella, Every Good Atom.
Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.
Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of the internationally acclaimed A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture and four volumes of literary translation, many essays, fiction, and criticism.