2022: A Year in Books
In 2022, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 50 books. Their writing spanned a wide range of genres from nonfiction essays, memoirs, and biographies, to novels, poetry, young adult literature, and short stories.
The Women's House of Detention
By Hugh Ryan MFA '09 | Faculty
This is Your Mind on Plants
By Michael Pollan '76
Quantum Girl Theory
By Erin Kate Ryan MFA ‘14
2022 Bennington Writing Seminars Publications
- Rebecca Balcárcel MFA ‘02, , Chronicle Books
- Douglas Bauer, Faculty, , University of Iowa Press
- Sam Bett, MFA candidate, by Fuminori Nakamura (translator), Penguin Random House; by Mieko Kawakami (translator)
- Remica Bingham Risher MFA ‘05, , University of Georgia Press contributor); , Beacon Press
- Brian Blanchfield, Former Faculty, , Harper Collins (contributor)
- Blake Butler MFA ‘06, Apocalypse Party
- Lauren Davis MFA ‘14, , Fernwood Press
- James Dickson MFA ‘11, , Kelsay Books
- Jaimee Deuel-Kranz MFA ‘19, , Wingless Dreamer (contributor)
- Kevin Fitton MFA ‘15, , Fomite
- Kate Hanson Foster MFA ‘08, , Eastover Press
- Nathalie Handal MFA ‘02, , Diode Editions
- June Gervais MFA ‘12, Pamela Dorman Books
- Meghan Gilliss MFA ‘13, , Catapult
- Ellen Graf MFA ‘07, , Harper Collins (contributor)
- Debra Gwartney MFA ‘06, , Harper Collins (contributor)
- Lise Haines MFA ‘02, , Poisoned Pen Press
- Kaycie Hall (MFA Candidate), , by Isabelle Nicou (translator)
- JoAnn Hart MFA ‘00, , Ashland Creek Press (contributor)
- Angela Jackson MFA ‘12, , Northwestern University Press
- Joanna Kadish MFA ‘15, , Adelaide Books
- Leslie Kirk Campbell MFA ‘13, , Sarabande Books
- Lisa C Krueger MFA ‘14, , Golden Foothills Press
- Erica Plouffe Lazure MFA ‘08, , New American Press
- Aimee Liu MFA ‘06, , Reckoning Press
- Dayna Lorenz MFA ‘09, , Clarion Books
- Elizabeth McCracken, Faculty, , Ecco Press; , Harper Collins (contributor)
- Erika Nichols-Frazer MFA ‘19, , Casper Press
- Miriam O’Neal MFA ‘99, , Nixes Mate Books
- Michael Milligan MFA ‘02, , Kelsay Books
- Emily Mohn-Slate MFA ‘14, , University of Georgia Press contributor)
- Katie Marya MFA ‘17, , Alice James Books
- Namrata Poddar MFA ‘16, , 713 Books
- Rolf Potts MFA ‘11, , Ballantine Books
- Andrew ​​Reiner MFA ‘02, , Hawkes Learning (contributor)
- Walter M. Robinson MFA '14, , University of New Mexico Press
- Moriel Rothman-Zecher (MFA Candidate), , Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Erin Kate Ryan MFA ‘14, , Penguin Random House
- Hugh Ryan Faculty | MFA ‘09, , Bold Type Books
- Kathryn Savage MFA ‘13,, Coffee House Press
- Angelique Stevens MFA ‘17, , Harper Collins (contributor)
- Tony Taddei MFA ‘18, , Bordighera Press
- Craig Morgan Teicher, Faculty | Director of Special Projects, , BOA Editions
- Brent Terry MFA ‘01, , Unsolicited Press
- Clifford Thompson Faculty, , Other Press
- Brian Tierney MFA ‘13, , Milkweed
- Randi Triant MFA ‘01, , She Writes Press
- Sarai Walker MFA ‘03, , Mariner Books
- Issam Zineh ( MFA Candidate), , Trio House Press
2022 Undergraduate Alumni and Faculty Publications
- David Bond, Faculty, , University of California Press
- Franny Choi, Faculty, , Ecco Press
- Luke Mogelson ‘05, , Penguin Press
- Michael Pollan ‘76, , Penguin Books
- Brian Michael Murphy, Dean of the College, , University of North Carolina Press
- Ian M. Rogers '07, , Vine Leaves Press
- Alec Wilkinson ‘74, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Last Animal
By Ramona Ausubel, Faculty
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
By Tara Ison MFA '99
Lost Person Behavior: Stories
By Amber Caron MFA '16
2023: A Preview
In 2023, along with welcoming a new class of Bennington undergraduates and Bennington Writing Seminars students—and the many works they will pen—the College is eagerly anticipating a robust lineup of 2023 publications, including:
- The Shards, a new novel by Bret Easton Ellis ’86, will be published in January.
- Bennington Writing Seminars faculty Katy Simpson Smith MFA ‘13 will publish her new novel, in April.
- April Bernard, Writing Seminars faculty, will publish a new poetry collection, The World Behind the World in March.
2023 Upcoming Bennington Writing Seminars Publications
- Jasmin Attia MFA ‘21, , Schaffner Press
- Ramona Ausubel, Faculty, , Riverhead Books
- J. Mae Barizo MFA ‘13, , Tupelo Press
- April Bernard, Faculty, , W. W. Norton & Company
- Amber Caron MFA ‘16, , Milkweed
- Lauren Davis MFA ‘14, , Kelsay Books
- Lauren Brazeal Garza MFA ‘16, Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I Was Here, Release Me, Tram Editions
- Carmen Giménez, Former Faculty, Nostalgia Has Such a Short Half-Life, Graywolf Press
- Tod Goldberg MFA ‘09, , Subterranean Press (contributor)
- James Hall MFA ‘00, Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
- Amy Hempel, Faculty, , W. W. Norton
- Tim Hernandez MFA ‘11,, Beacon Press
- Tara Ison MFA ‘99, , Ig Publishing
- Meg Serino MFA ‘22, , Alcove Press
- Katy Simpson Smith MFA ‘13, Faculty, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Peter Trachtenberg, Faculty, TBA
- John West MFA ‘18, , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Jamie Zvirzdin MFA '15, Johns Hopkins University Press
Excited to begin your own legacy as a published writer?
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Steeped in the 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s literary legacy, Bennington Writing Seminars is consistently named one of the top low-residency Masters of Fine Arts in Writing programs. During this two-year, low-residency program, students commit as much to reading as to writing and conceive reading lists that strengthen and broaden their knowledge. Students perform critical literary analysis and craft bold new works of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry inspired by their discoveries.
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