Writers at Bennington

Writers who have taught at Bennington include, among others, Bernard Malamud, W.H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Theodore Roethke, Kenneth Burke, Hortense Calisher, John Gardner, Jamaica Kincaid, Howard Nemerov, Nicholas Delbanco, Joe McGinniss, Lore Segal, Ben Belitt, Stephen Sandy, Edward Hoagland, and Mary Oliver.

For more than 20 years prior to the formation of the Writing Seminars, Bennington hosted the Bennington Summer Writing Workshops, where more than 250 writers, including John Cheever, John Ashbery, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, John Irving, and many others formed part of the long tradition of writers and literature at Bennington.

Our current core Writing Seminars faculty, along with associate faculty and writers-in-residence, carry on this decades-old tradition of distinguished writers at Bennington.

Like the Writing Seminars faculty, our undergraduate literature faculty is composed of accomplished teacher-practitioners whose work in the classroom is as exceptional as their contributions to the world of letters.