"The Atlantic” Declares Bennington’s MFA in Writing and Literature One of Nation's Best

In The Atlantic’s special 2007 fiction issue, Bennington’s low residency MFA in Writing and Literature was distinguished as one of five top low-residency MFA programs in the country. The program, which began a decade ago, has attracted some of the America’s most prolific writers, including Amy Hempel, Jill McCorkle, Sven Birkerts, and longtime writer-in-residence, US Poet Laureate, Donald Hall, among many others.

The Writing Seminars continue Bennington’s long literary history that has included Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Bernard Malamud, Stanley Kunitz, and Howard Nemerov as its faculty, as well as counting among its alumni writers like Kiran Desai ’93, Jonathan Lethem ’86, Bret Easton Ellis ’86, Donna Tart ’86, and Michael Pollan ’76, among others.

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