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Scholar, writer, and biographer whose book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize
Simonds is a poet and critic. She is the author of eight books of poetry and a novel. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine and elsewhere.
Actress, poet, and writer best known for her role as “Lady Aberlin” on the children’s television classic Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and more recently in movies including Dogma, Jersey Girl, and Red State
Kathleen Alcott's work has been called "Captivating" by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Her third novel, America Was Hard To Find, on the intersection of the Apollo program and antiwar radicalism, is forthcoming from Ecco in 2019.
Author of Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, and model for Camille in Kerouac’s Beat classic
Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA ’10 is a short-story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work focuses on the experiences of women and the psychological impact of environmental degradation. She was formerly the Director of the Robert Frost House Museum.
Rachel Lyon's novel Self-Portrait With Boy was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short work has recently appeared in One Story, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Poet and essayist whose work has been honored by the Western World Haiku Society
Poet whose first collection, Cannibal (2016), won a Prairie Schooner Book Prize and who received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2015.
Journalist and bestselling author who has raised the American consciousness of how food gets to our plates
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.
Guggenheim award-winning poet, writer, and author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
New Yorker editor, translator, and the public face of the secretive, critically acclaimed Italian author Elena Ferrante
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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 Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others.
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.
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
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.
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.
Libby Flores MFA '14 has had her work appear in One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, American 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 is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.
Senior Writer and Editor at Optimism and previous Weekend Editor at IndieWire, whose work has also appeared in the LA Times, Salon, Vice, The Washington Post, and many other publications.
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
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
Practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and author of the critically acclaimed book of short stories, Scary Old Sex
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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.