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

Writers at Bennington

Donald Hall, Writer-in-Residence

Hall writes poems, essays, short stories, memoirs, plays, biographies, textbooks, and children’s books, and has worked as an anthologist and an editor. He has published fourteen books of poems, including White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), The Painted Bed, Without, The Old Life, The Museum of Clear Ideas, The One Day, The Happy Man, and Kicking the Leaves. His books of prose include Principle Products of Portugal, String Too Short to Be Saved, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, Seasons at Eagle Pond, Poetry and Ambition, and many others. His children’s book, The Ox Cart Man, won the Caldecott Award for 1980. He has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for The One Day, and he has received Guggenheim fellowships, the Lamont Prize, and numerous other awards for his work. He makes his home in Danbury, New Hampshire.

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