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

Core Faculty

David Gates, Fiction

Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan (Knopf, 1991) and Preston Falls (Knopf, 1998), and a collection of stories, The Wonders of the Visible World (Knopf, 1999). He is a senior editor at Newsweek. Gates’ fiction, articles, and reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Tin House, Bomb, Salon.com, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, and elsewhere. He edited the fiction anthology Labor Days, and has written introductions to works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Donald Barthelme. He took a BA from the University of Connecticut and was ABD in graduate studies there. He’s received a Guggenheim fellowship and his books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Gates has taught at Harvard, Columbia, the University of Virginia, Hunter College, and The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.