MFA in Writing News
![Andrea Jarrell](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Andrea_Jarrell.jpg?itok=yNLRX0g8)
Andrea Jarrell MFA ’01 was profiled in Publishers Weekly for her “spellbinding … gracefully written” new memoir, I’m the One Who Got Away.
![Q and A with Mark](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/WunderlichMark_320x230px.jpg?itok=9ypNyUV-)
Mark Wunderlich, the recently inaugurated Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, took some time to answer questions about his long-term goals for the program, its literary legacy, and what he’s reading.
![Dietland](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Dietland.jpg?itok=qwzFbVDO)
AMC has greenlit 10 episodes of Dietland—adapted from the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker MFA ’03—to be written and produced by Marti Noxon, producer of such hit series as Mad Men, UnREAL, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among others.
![Fred Hampton](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/fred%20hampton.jpg?itok=QrAcdKw2)
A book by Jeffrey Haas MFA ’07 on the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, is being developed into a movie by Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day, The Equalizer, and The Magnificent Seven.
![Mark Wunderlich is named the new director of the Bennington Writing Seminars](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/WunderlichMark_600x450_0.jpg?itok=fUljsEZ9)
Bennington College announced today that poet Mark Wunderlich has been named the next director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, the College’s MFA program in writing.