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

Writers at Bennington

Douglas Bauer, Writer-in-Residence

Bauer’s novels are Dexterity (Simon & Schuster, 1989), The Very Air (Morrow, 1993), and The Book of Famous Iowans (Holt, 1997). In 2000 the University of Michigan Press published The Stuff of Fiction: Thoughts and Advice on Aspects of Craft, and Bauer has also published another nonfiction book, Prairie City, Iowa (Putnam, 1979). Bauer has received fellowships in fiction from the NEA and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. He holds a Doctor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany and a BA in journalism from Drake University. He has taught at Rice, Drake, Harvard, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State University, and for many years as a core faculty member in the Bennington Writing Seminars.

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