Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

Core Faculty

Martha Cooley, Fiction

Cooley's first novel, The Archivist, was published in 1998 by Little, Brown, and has appeared in translation in ten languages. Her second novel, Thirty-Three Swoons (also by Little, Brown), was published in the U.S. and Italy in 2005 and will appear in paperback in May 2006. Cooley's short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Washington Square, Agni, and elsewhere. She has taught in the MA programs in writing at Boston University and Manhattanville College, and is on the English Department faculty (undergraduate and MFA) at Adelphi University. Cooley lives in Brooklyn, New York.