Literature Faculty

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Benjamin Anastas has received support for his work as a novelist, literary journalist, and critic from the Lannan Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. 

email banastas@bennington.edu
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Nonfiction/Poetry
Jenny Boully, a poet and essayist, is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction. Her latest book is Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
email jennyboully@bennington.edu
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Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and Soft Science, winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry.

email frannychoi@bennington.edu
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Alex Creighton (he/they) writes about and teaches literature and culture in diverse fields, including the long eighteenth century, gender and sexuality studies, music and narrative, animal studies, and studies of time and temporality.

email alexcreighton@bennington.edu
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Director of Poetry at Bennington

The acclaimed innovative and lyrical poetry of Michael Dumanis investigates childhood and parenthood, migration and diaspora, dislocation, mortality, and ecological extinction.

email mdumanis@bennington.edu
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Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Prize for Fiction, and the novel The Regional Office is Under Attack!

email manuelgonzales@bennington.edu
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Director of Undergraduate Writing Initiatives

In Camille Guthrie's fourth collection of poems, DIAMONDS, she writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life—and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.

 

email cguthrie@bennington.edu
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Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator.

email mariamrahmani@bennington.edu

Emerita/Emeritus Faculty

Annabel Davis-Goff
Faculty Emerita

Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.

email adavis-goff@bennington.edu
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Faculty Emerita

Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of the internationally acclaimed A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture and four volumes of literary translation, many essays, fiction, and criticism.

email mfeitlowitz@bennington.edu