Creating the Future

Books Behind Bars

Second Chance Pell Grants at Bennington by Jeanne Bonner MFA '16.

The Martian Chronicles

Human Exploration of Mars and New Frontiers by Jeva Lange '15.

The Feedback Loop: A 360 Look at Evaluations

A 360 Look at Evaluations in Class and at Work by Heather DiLeo.

The Future of News (and viewer response)

Bryn Mooser ’01 is leading the world's largest 360-degree virtual reality news network without compromising the humanitarian mission that started it all. A story by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke '07.

What Millennials Want From Work

An adapted excerpt from "Workforce," a new podcast featuring employment expert and Dean of Field Work Term and Career Development Holly McCormack.

The Making of WNYC's TalkBox

Create a phsyical object that provides residents with a way to speak out on issues that are important to them and their community. It has to be replicable. And it has to repurpose a piece of city infrastructure. A story by Janet Lape Marsden.

Relaunching a Literary Legacy

Faculty member Michael Dumanis revives Bennington's literary journal after 30 years of dormancy by Madeline Cole '16.

Top 20 Employers

A quick view of where our alumni work, what they do, and what they're good at based on aggregate, dynamic data drawn from LinkedIn.

Rogue One

What it takes to stoke enthusiasm for blockbuster opening weekends by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke '07.

Gaming Heroine

Breaking barriers at work and in the world by Crystal Barrick '11

LinkedIn Profiles

Interesting people doing interesting things. A glance at some of our alums on LinkedIn.

2922 Songs & Counting

What began as a side project became a career for Jonathan Mann '04.

Winter 2017 Bookshelf

The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—And Live to Tell the Tale img

Alice Mattison, MFA in Writing faculty member (Viking, August 2016)

Lee Clay Johnson ’07 (Knopf, May 2016)

Mary-Beth Hughes, former MFA in Writing faculty member (Atlantic Monthly Press, June 2015)

“Tense, disturbing, impressive. . . .”
The Wall Street Journal

“Hughes’s prose is elusive, allusive, artful, intriguing and infuriating.” The New York Times Sunday Book Review

" ...an addictive, poignant read ” The Los Angeles Time

“...a master of creating realistic and nuanced female characters.” The Washington Post

“For all the beauty of Young’s writing, her novel is a dark one, full of pain and loss.” The New York Times Sunday Book Review

"...the rare historical novel in which the setting may be old, but the writing makes everything feel brand new." Esquire

"A remixed Odyssey whose speaker ‘rolls deep’ the same way Odysseus did as he worried and warred far from home, by staying true to where he’s from."
The New York Times Book Review

“Frank tales… fierce candor” The New Yorker

“...career-defining collection of magazine writing from 1989 to today.” Los Angeles Times

"With sensitivity and grace, Selouka descends deep into the chaos of his parents' lives." The New York Times

"A magical world of wonders [on] the printed page." The Associated Press

“A book-length master class that draws on years of teaching”
The Atlantic