Bennington College Book News: Spring 2025
Bennington College alumni and faculty members are publishing novels, memoirs, short story collections, non-fiction books, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this spring.
Kristina Baer ’69 published Indian Summer, a collection of short fiction, in January.
Doug Barney ’83 published Fat Guy in Prison with ukiyoto.
Late last year, Isobel Lola Brown '24, general manager of Cafe Gitane, published Cafe Gitane: 30 Years with McNally Editions. The publication of the coffee table book was covered by All of It on WNYC, Gothamist, Air Mail, and by The New York Times.
Faculty member Mariam Ghani published Liquid: A Love Story with Algonquin Books on March 11. Kirkus called it “a thoroughly modern combination of snark and sincerity on the road to love.”
Adnan Iftekhar '97 has co-authored AI Culture Shift.
Suleika Jaouad MFA ’20 will publish The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life with Random House on April 22, 2025.
Morgan Jerkins MFA ’16 will publish her new novel, Zeal, on April 22, 2025, with Harper. From the publisher: “Sweeping, textured, and meticulously researched, Zeal is both a story of how one generation's choices reverberate through the years and an indelible portrait of an enduring love.”
Lucie McKee MFA ’86 published her first book of poetry, Anything and Its Shadow, with Green Writers Press. She is 92 years old.
Linda Michel-Cassidy MFA ’15 published her story collection When We Were Hardcore with Eastover Press.
Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Stuart Nadler published his newest novel, Rooms for Vanishing, in March 2025 by Dutton. Rooms for Vanishing is a “prismatic, mind-bending family epic about the splintering of a Jewish family from Vienna—exploring the weight of exile and how grief twists our sense of the impossible.”
Jill Nooney ’71 published Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden in March. The publisher calls it “a love letter to a 30-acre garden from the woman who spent 40 years creating it.” The book features nearly 300 photographs of the garden, the author’s sculptures, water features, and built structures and takes readers from the garden’s private origin to its current status as a public garden.
Kathleen Norris '69 and Gareth Higgins co-wrote and published A Whole Life in 12 Movies: A Cinematic Path to a Deeper Spirituality with publisher Brazos.
A new book of plays, Piecework / Travail à la pièce by Abby Paige MFA ’09, will appear in April from the University of Maine Press. This bilingual collection contains Paige’s two solo plays, Piecework: When We Were French and Les filles du QUOI?, which explore Franco American identity and the little-known history of the borderlands between northern New England and francophone Canada. “I feel profound gratitude for the way my poetry concentration deepened my playwriting practice,” said Paige.
Meg Serino MFA ’22’s novel, Annapurna, will be published on May 6, 2025, by Regalo Press.
Kathryn (Kathy) Talalay ’69, recently published a young-adult book Skylark: Flight to Freedom.
Ellen Wilbur ’66’s Listening and Speaking: New and Selected Stories will be published in the spring of 2025.
Are you a Bennington alum with a book coming out this year or next? Please share your publishing news with us at magazine@bennington.edu.