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Image of Michael Pollan
Alumni

Journalist and bestselling author who has raised the American consciousness of how food gets to our plates

Former Faculty

Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, a podcast. He is writing a book about the 1980s and a screenplay for Amazon Studios. 

Image of Kathleen Norris
Alumni

Guggenheim award-winning poet, writer, and author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

Photo of ​Ann Goldstein, Bennington College class of 1971
Alumni

New Yorker editor, translator, and the public face of the secretive, critically acclaimed Italian author Elena Ferrante

Photograph © Peter Ross (Wall Street Journal)

Image of Bruna Dantas Lobato
Alumni

National Book Award-winning translator of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel and author of the novel Blue Light Hours. Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Published in The New YorkerThe Kenyon ReviewGuernica, and A Public Space, among others.

Akiko Busch
Former Faculty

Akiko Busch’s writings—books and essays in publications ranging from Metropolis to The New York Times—weave together design, culture, and nature to address things like the geography of the home, citizen science, and the lives of objects.

Image of Anne Waldman
Alumni

Acclaimed poet, co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, recipient of the American Book Award’s Lifetime Achievement and a Guggenheim fellowship, and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets

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Former Faculty

Lisa Ann Cockrel is an editor and event curator whose own creative writing explores the interplay between social bodies and individual bodies, with a specific focus on fat bodies.  

Image of Paul La Farge
Former Faculty

Paul La Farge wrote novels, short stories and essays which mix genre and ‘literary’ elements, and explore the expressive power of form. He published four novels, a hypertext, and a collection of imaginary dreams.

Image of Libby Flores
Visiting Faculty

Libby Flores MFA '14 has had her work appear in One Story MagazineThe Kenyon ReviewAmerican Short Fiction, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The Guardian, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the Associate Publisher at BOMB magazine.

Annabel Davis-Goff
Faculty

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.

Photo of Michael Nordine
Alumni

Senior Writer and Editor at Optimism and previous Weekend Editor at IndieWire, whose work has also appeared in the LA TimesSalonVice, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Manuel Gonzales headshot
Faculty

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!

Image of Judith Butler
Alumni

Author of Gender Trouble, one of the most important works of philosophy and gender theory of the postmodern era

Image of Mariam Rahmani
Faculty

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator.

Image of Suzanne Shepherd
Alumni

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

Image of Arlene Heyman
Alumni

Practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and author of the critically acclaimed book of short stories, Scary Old Sex

Photograph © Dan Callister

Image of Maria Dahvana Headley
Former Faculty

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.

Image of Elizabeth Frank
Alumni

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

Image of Louise Bokkenheuser
Former Faculty

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.

Image of Michael Dumanis
Faculty

The acclaimed poetry of Michael Dumanis weaves together memories of childhood, diaspora, and dislocation.