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

Core Faculty

Bernard Cooper, Nonfiction

Cooper is the author of Maps To Anywhere (University of Georgia Press), A Year of Rhymes (Viking), Truth Serum (Houghton Mifflin), and a collection of short stories, Guess Again (Simon & Schuster). His book The Bill From My Father (Simon & Schuster) was published in February, 2006.

Cooper is the recipient of the 1991 PEN/USA Ernest Hemingway Award, a 1995 O. Henry Prize, a 1999 Guggenheim grant, and a 2004 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in literature. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Essays of 1988, 1995, and 1997, and 2002. His work has also appeared widely in magazines and literary reviews including, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Story, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. He has contributed to National Public Radio's "This American Life" and has written monthly features as the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine.