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

Core Faculty

Amy Gerstler, Poetry

Gerstler's books and chapbooks of poems are Ghost Girl (Penguin, 2004), Medicine (Penguin Putnam, 2000), Crown of Weeds (Viking Penguin, 1997), Nerve Storm (Penguin, 1993), Bitter Angel (North Point, 1990, and reissued by Carnegie Mellon in 1997), The True Bride (Lapis Press, 1986), Early Heaven (Ouija Madness Press, 1986), White Marriage/Recovery (Illuminati Press, 1984), Christy's Alpine Inn (Sherwood Press, 1982), and Yonder (Little Caesar Press, 1981). Bitter Angel was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1991, and Crown of Weeds received the California Book Award in 1998. Her chapbooks of fiction are Primitive Man (Hanuman Books, 1987) and Martine's Mouth (Illuminati Press, 1985). She received a Durfee Artist Award in 2002. Gerstler has taught at the California Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah, Antioch University, Pitzer College, and at the California Institute for the Arts. She was assistant director of Beyond Baroque, a literary center. Gerstler took a BA from Pitzer College in 1978 and an MFA from Bennington College in 2001. She lives in Los Angeles.

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