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

Core Faculty

Sheila Kohler, Fiction

Kohler is the author of five novels, Crossways (Ontario Review Press, 2004), Children of Pithiviers (Zoland, 2001), Cracks (Zoland, 1999), The House on R Street (Knopf, 1994), and The Perfect Place (Knopf, 1989), and three books of short stories, Stories from Another World (Ontario Review Press, 2003), One Girl (Helicon Nine, 1999), and Miracles in America (Knopf, 1990). The Other Press is publishing paperback editions of Crossways, The Perfect Place, The Children of Pithiviers, and Cracks. The Other Press will also publish an historical novel, Bluebird or The Invention of Happiness in Spring 2007. Kohler's work received the O. Henry prize in 1988 and has received the Open Voice prize, the Smart Family Foundation prize, and the Willa Cather Prize. Cracks was chosen by Library Journal and Newsday as one of the best books of 1999 and was optioned by Killer Films and Working Track 2. Kohler was awarded The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship of the New York Public Library. Her work has been translated and published in France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Holland, England, and India. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, The New School, and the West Side YMCA, and she currently teaches at Columbia. She lives in New York City.

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