Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars
Core Faculty
Sven Birkerts, Writing Seminars Director; Nonfiction
 In 2002, Viking published My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time. Other books by Birkerts include The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Faber & Faber, 1994), An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth Century Literature (William Morrow, 1987), The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry (William Morrow, 1989), and American Energies: Essays on Fiction (William Morrow, 1992). He edited Tolstoy's Dictaphone (Graywolf, 1996), and several editions of Writing Well (with Donald Hall). He also edited The Evolving Canon (Allyn & Bacon, 1993). Birkerts has published reviews and essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Mirabella, Parnassus, The New Republic, WigWag, and many other places. He edits the journal Agni at Boston University. He was a 1994 Guggenheim fellow and was awarded a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest fellowship. In 1985, he was awarded the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. Birkerts holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Emerson College and Mt. Holyoke College, and is currently the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Nonfiction at Harvard and Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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