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

Core Faculty

Alice Mattison, Fiction

Mattison's collection of connected stories, In Case We're Separated, published by William Morrow in 2005, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named as one of the year's best books of stories by the Boston Globe. Her novel The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman, also published by Morrow, came out in 2004. Her previous novels are The Book Borrower (William Morrow, 1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book, Hilda and Pearl (Morrow, 1995), and Field of Stars (Morrow, 1992). Her collection of intersecting stories, Men Giving Money, Women Yelling (Morrow, 1997), was a New York Times Notable Book of 1997. She is the author of two earlier collections of stories, Great Wits (Morrow, 1988) and The Flight Of Andy Burns (Morrow, 1993), and a collection of poems, Animals (Alice James Books, 1980). She is co-editor of As I Sat On the Green: Living Without a Home in New Haven, which was published by Columbus House, New Haven in 2000. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Ms. Magazine, Glimmer Train, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, Agni, and elsewhere, and have been reprinted in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. She holds a bachelor's degree from Queens College and a PhD in English literature from Harvard. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.