Writing (MFA): Related Content
Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA 鈥10, associate director of the MFA in Writing program, published an essay in The Wall Street Journal about her recent experience in northern Kenya as a guest researcher with the BOMA Project.
A poem by Nathalie Handal MFA 鈥02, , is featured in posters for the Poetry in Motion庐 series offered by the MTA in New York City, which serves poetry to seven million commuters daily.
"Strange Days鈥 by MFA in Writing Director Sven Birkerts and "Vision" by Tiffany Briere MFA '11 were included in The Best American Essays 2015. 鈥淭he Siege at Whale Cay,鈥 by Assistant Director Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA 鈥10, was included in The Best American Short Stories 2015.
A new book by Sven Birkerts, director of the MFA in Writing Program at 51成人猎奇, has been garnering attention in advance of its October 6 publication date.
A new book by Sven Birkerts, director of the MFA in Writing Program at 51成人猎奇, is receiving warm attention. Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age, published by Grey Wolf Press, which focuses on the effect of digital culture on our ability to engage with our world, and the fate of writing in such a context, has been reviewed in the Chronicle for Higher Education, New Republic, and the New York Times Book Review.
Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10) has been appointed associate director of the MFA in Writing Program at 51成人猎奇. She is the author of two critically acclaimed works of short fiction (Birds of a Lesser Paradise and Almost Famous Women) and is at work on a novel that will be published by Scribner.
Caroline Zancan MFAW '14, author of Local Girls, links her debut novel to her time at Bennington in an interview with Melville House.
The New Yorker profiled the artist Elise Engler MFA 鈥86 in their June 8 issue, highlighting the completion of her year-long project of drawing every one of Broadway鈥檚 two hundred and fifty-odd blocks in New York City.
MFA alumna Megan Mayhew Bergman's forthcoming collection of stories, Almost Famous Women, received , and is an Indie Next Pick for winter. Due out in January, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston called it "heartbreaking and lovely".
Katy Simpson Smith MFA 鈥13's new novel, The Story of Land and Sea, is 鈥渘ot only among the most assured debut novels in recent memory,鈥 raved a , but also 鈥渉eralds the birth of a major new talent.鈥
Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, MFA faculty member Major Jackson, and alumna Kiran Desai 鈥93 are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists鈥攐ut of nearly 3,000 applicants鈥攖o receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The stories that comprise MFA alumna Jamie Quatro '09's recently released debut collection, I Want to Show You More, according to noted literary critic James Wood in his , "are passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable for their brave dualism."
Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the 51成人猎奇 Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's winter residency beginning on Thursday, January 10, and ending on Friday, January 18.
Bennington Writing Seminars Writer-in-Residence Donald Hall, a former Poet Laureate of the United States, was one of 10 artists to be honored by President Obama this week with the 2010 National Medal of Arts.
Profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, MFA faculty member Major Jackson discusses his life as a writer, his just-published collection of poetry, and shares a few thoughts on the Bennington Writing Seminars鈥攚hich the magazine recently ranked among the best low-residency MFA programs in the world.
Bennington's low-residency MFA in writing program is among the top three in the world, according to Poets & Writers Magazine.
In less than three months since being published, Rebecca Chace's new novel Leaving Rock Harbor has been named an"Editor's Choice" by The New York Times Book Review, an "Indie Notable Book" by the American Booksellers Association, and a 2010 New England Book Award finalist.
A poem by Liam Rector, the late founding director of Bennington's MFA in Writing program, was featured today on , a radio program aired daily on public broadcasting stations around the country.
Eugenia Kim MFA '01's recently published debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, has been recommended by critics in The Washington Post, Vogue, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.
Award-winning poet, playwright, and writer was named a finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award by , a foundation for female artists.
MFA faculty member Amy Hempel has been selected to receive the 22nd annual PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction. Given in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, who himself taught at Bennington from 1961 to 1984, the award includes participation in the 2009-10 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a prize of $2,500.
Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had. Her book On Immunity was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review.
Thomas Grattan is the author of the novels The Recent East and In Tongues, both published by MCD Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of the memoir Kin. She has been the recipient of a Jean Ritchie Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and her essays have appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, and Elle.
Jennifer Chang's third book of poems, An Authentic Life, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Dawn Lundy Martin, an American poet, essayist, and memoirist, is the author of five books of poems including Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry.
Mark Wunderlich is author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, and his poems, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in journals such as Slate, The Paris Review, and Poetry, and in more than 30 anthologies. His most recent book, God Of Nothingness, was published by Graywolf in 2021.
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Carole Maso is revered by readers and fellow writers for her boundary-breaking novels, including The Art Lover, AVA, and most recently, Mother & Child. She joined the faculty of the Writing Seminars this past June and, on the first day of residency, gave a remarkable lecture that set the mood for the whole ten days. We talked about that lecture and the relationship between a writer鈥檚 life and her work.
Hugh (he/him) is a writer and curator. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors' Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. His second book, The Women's House of Detention, explores the forgotten history of the maximum security prison that once dominated life in Greenwich Village.
Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont鈥檚 poet laureate. Stone is the author of many books, including the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite, which received the 2022 Vermont Book Award; and The Near and Distant World, out from Tin House in January, 2026.