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

Core Faculty

Bob Shacochis, Nonfiction

Shacochis is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, educator, and journalist. His collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, received the 1985 National Book Award for First Fiction, and his novel, Swimming in the Volcano, was a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award. He is also the author of a second collection of stories, The Next New World, and was the recipient of the Prix di Rome in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has published two nonfiction books: The Immaculate Invasion, which chronicled the U.S. military's occupation of Haiti and was a finalist for the New Yorker Magazine Book Awards for Best Nonfiction in 1999, and Domesticity, a collection of essays on food and love. He is a contributing editor at Harper's and Outside magazines. His novel-in-progress, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, will be published in 2008 by Grove/Atlantic. He has an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and an MA and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He lives in Florida and New Mexico.

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