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

Core Faculty

Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Fiction

Schwartz's novels and books of short stories are The Writing on the Wall (Counterpoint Press 2005), Referred Pain and Other Stories (Counterpoint Press, 2004), In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy (Morrow, 1999), The Fatigue Artist (Scribner, 1995), Leaving Brooklyn (Houghton Mifflin, 1989), The Melting Pot and Other Subversive Stories (Harper & Row, 1987), Acquainted with the Night (Harper & Row, 1984), Disturbances in the Field (Harper & Row, 1983), Balancing Acts (Harper & Row, 1983), Rough Strife (Harper & Row, 1981). Her books of nonfiction are Face to Face: A Reader In the World (Beacon, 2000), Ruined By Reading: My Life in Books (Beacon, 1996), and We Are Talking About Homes: A Great University Against Its Neighbors (Harper & Row, 1984). A Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader features personal essays, short stories, and poems, and was published by the University Press of New England in 1992. Schwartz has also published a book of poems, In Solitary (Sheep Meadow, 2002), a children's book, The Four Questions (Dial, 1989), and has translated from the Italian the work of Natalia Ginsberg and Liana Millu. She took a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Bryn Mawr College, and did Ph.D work at New York University. She has taught at Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships in writing and translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also been a Guggenheim fellow. She lives in New York City.