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

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Amy Hempel, Fiction

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Scribner) is Hempel’s newest book. She has published four collections of stories: The Dog of the Marriage (Scribner, 2005), Tumble Home (Scribners, 1997), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (Knopf, 1990), and Reasons to Live (Knopf, 1985). Her stories have been published in twelve languages. Her anthology of poems in the voices of dogs, Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs, was published by Crown. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Vogue, Interview, Elle, and elsewhere. She has taught at New York University, The New School, Duke, and elsewhere. Hempel received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She holds a BA in journalism from California State University, San Jose. Hempel is currently a contributing editor to Bomb magazine and lives in New York City.

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