Literature: Related Content
![Image of Judith Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Jones_Judith_640x460.jpg?itok=KzqvfMVv)
Introduced the world to Julia Child, James Beard, and Madhur Jaffrey as senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf
Photograph © Landon Nordeman
![Andrew Barton and childhood friend plating green sage flowers in the backroom](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/AndrewBartonLucasPlating.jpg?itok=rBWcvw2u)
Part IV of Making space—for home, for preservation, for performance, for community.
![Image of James Geary](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Geary_James_640x460_0.jpg?itok=jeMnJW00)
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
![Photo of Jenny Boully](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/jennyboully320w230h.png?itok=P9Qwunk9)
![Image of Franny Choi](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Choi%2C%20Franny_320x230px.jpg?itok=wmudnqqM)
Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and Soft Science, winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry.
![Image of Marguerite Feitlowitz](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/FeitlowitzMarguerite_320x230px.jpg?itok=FnJfWIvK)
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.
![Image of Summer Brennan](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Brennan_Summer_640x460.jpg?itok=oWwH6zrI)
Award-winning journalist, United Nations communications consultant, and author of The Oyster War
Photograph © Patrick O'Connor
![Elisa Albert](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Albert_Elisa_320x230.jpg?itok=Pcb8BYyV)
Author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia and the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot.
![Image of Ariél M. Martinez](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Martinez%2C%20Ariel_320x230px.jpg?itok=80w0bG96)
Ariél M. Martinez is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been published or is forthcoming from The Rumpus and Peach Mag. She is working on a memoir.
![Image of Jonathan Lethem](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Lethem_Jonathan_640x460.jpg?itok=z8ElBbr8)
Writer whose work in many genres have won him spots on bestseller lists, a National Book Critics Award, and a coveted MacArthur “Genius Grant”
Photograph © Fred Benenson
![Image of Bruna Dantas Lobato](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/dantas-lobato_320x230px.jpg?itok=K-liCNGE)
Bruna Dantas Lobato '15 is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel. She was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic.
![Image of Benjamin Anastas](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/anastas-ben_320x230px.jpg?itok=1hW-UxQm)
Benjamin Anastas has received support for his work as a novelist, literary journalist, and critic from the Lannan Foundation and the MacDowell Colony.
![Image of Mary Ruefle](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Reufle_Mary_640x460_0.jpg?itok=_RemiVTs)
Poet and essayist, and winner of the Guggenheim and a Whiting Writers’ Award
Photograph © Matt Valentine
![Image of Jordan McCord](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/McCord%2C%20Jordan_320x230.jpg?itok=gpDsBHlH)
Jordan McCord is a fiction writer and educator originally from the Midwest. Her stories are inspired by her travels through the American Southwest and in Europe.
![Image of Safiya Sinclair](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/safiyasinclairauthorphoto2023640x460.jpg?itok=gY619gY5)
Poet and memoirist. Author of How to Say Babylon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Nonfiction.
![Image of Donna Tartt](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Tartt_Donna_640x460.jpg?itok=1iLmGdsx)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2014
Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan
![Glenn Horowitz](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/horowtiz_glenn_230x320_2.jpg?itok=iN1T75fz)
Rare-book dealer who brokered the sale of important archives such as the papers of Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo and the Watergate notebooks of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Photograph © Mark Mahaney
![Image of Nico Amador](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Amador%2C%20Nico_320x230.jpg?itok=e5klnrlu)
Poet and professional troublemaker, Nico Amador's prior work has focused on teaching and writing about the skills and strategies needed to build effective movements for social change.
![Image of Camille Guthrie](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/GuthrieCamille_320x230px.jpg?itok=9KkDYgOv)
In Camille Guthrie's fourth collection of poems, DIAMONDS, she writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life—and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.
![Image of Elizabeth Richter Zimmer](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Zimmer_Elizabeth_640x460.jpg?itok=t9NG0JK6)
Former dance editor of The Village Voice whose writings about dance, theatre, and books have appeared in New York’s Metro and the Philadelphia Inquirer
![Image of Phillip Williams](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Williams_Phillip_320x230.jpg?itok=S7ZDJ6Bz)
Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl.
![Image of Natalie Scenters-Zapico](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Scenters-Zapico_Natalie_320x230px.jpg?itok=NWYdFYnz)
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a poet who holds fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and CantoMundo.
![Image of Jeanie Riess](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Reiss_Jeanie_320x230.jpg?itok=kha4VOEX)
Jeanie Riess is a writer from New Orleans and is currently working on her first novel, which is about Mississippi.
![Image of Luke Mogelson](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Mogelson_Luke_640x460.jpg?itok=3Q2e8NQm)
Investigative reporter, writer, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and other national outlets
![Image of Gail Hirschorn Evans](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Evans_Gail_320x230.jpg?itok=mDqZooBG)
Bestselling author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, former executive vice president of CNN, and before that a key player in the creation of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act during the Johnson Administration
![Image of Jia Tolentino](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/tolentino-jia_320x230px.jpg?itok=hLsM8fs6)
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.
![Image of Brando Skyhorse](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/SkyhorseBrando_320x230px.jpg?itok=t2QO6Kno)
Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
![Image of Daniel Goldberg](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/danielgoldberg640.jpg?itok=kYMB6Nnm)
Filmmaker, colorist, and founder of Horned Melon Productions. His directorial work explores the self-help obsessions of privileged Brooklynites and the grey areas between love and friendship and has been called “sharp-witted and literary” by NoBudge. His color grading can be seen on the film Outlaw Posse, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Edward James Olmos, and Cedric the Entertainer.
![Image of Anna Maria Hong](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Hong_AnnaMaria_320x230px.jpg?itok=Eqqjb_fM)
Anna Maria Hong is the author of the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize, and Age of Glass, winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society of America’s 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque, won Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in June 2020.
![Image of Spencer Cox](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Cox_Spencer_640x460.jpg?itok=p4kwwdmT)
Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph © Walter Kurtz