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

Core Faculty

Phillip Lopate, Nonfiction

Lopate's books of nonfiction include Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (Crown Publishers, 2004), Getting Personal: Selected Writings (Basic Books, 2003), Totally, Tenderly, Tragically (Doubleday, 1998), Portrait of My Body (Doubleday, 1997), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon & Schuster, 1989), Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis (Little Brown, 1981), and Being with Children (Doubleday, 1986). Lopate edited American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now (Library of America 2006). His novels are The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer, and his books of poems are The Daily Round and The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open. He edited The Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday, 1995) and Writing New York (Library of America, 1998). Lopate has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and he has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia University, and at Hofstra University, where he now holds the Adams Chair. He was recently a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Lopate took a BA from Columbia College and a PhD in English from the Union Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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