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Image of Elizabeth Richter Zimmer
Alumni

Former dance editor of The Village Voice whose writings about dance, theatre, and books have appeared in New York’s Metro and the Philadelphia Inquirer

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Former Faculty

Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl.

Image of Jia Tolentino
Visiting Faculty

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.

Image of Victoria Sammartino
Alumni

Founder of Voices UnBroken, a nonprofit dedicated to giving vulnerable young people opportunity for creative self-expression.

Image of Gail Hirschorn Evans
Alumni

Bestselling author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, former executive vice president of CNN, and before that a key player in the creation of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act during the Johnson Administration

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Former Faculty

Anna Maria Hong is the author of the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize, and Age of Glass, winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society of America’s 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque, won Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in June 2020. 

Mark Wunderlich
Faculty

Mark Wunderlich is author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, and his poems, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in journals such as Slate, The Paris Review, and Poetry, and in more than 30 anthologies. His most recent book, God Of Nothingness, was published by Graywolf in 2021.

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Alumni

Founding writer of Heatmap News, a new climate-focused publication, and the former executive editor and culture critic of TheWeek.com. Appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and additionally published in Vice, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

Image of Megan Marshall
Alumni

Scholar, writer, and biographer whose book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize

Image of Sandra Simonds
Visiting Faculty

Simonds is a poet and critic. She is the author of eight books of poetry and a novel. Her writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe New YorkerPoetry Magazine and elsewhere. 

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Alumni

Executive editor and regular contributor for Wine Spectator magazine

Image of Kathleen Alcott
Former Faculty

Kathleen Alcott's work has been called "Captivating" by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Her third novel, America Was Hard To Find, on the intersection of the Apollo program and antiwar radicalism, is forthcoming from Ecco in 2019. 

Gretel Ehrlich, Bennington College class of 1967.
Alumni

Essayist, poet, novelist, and recipient of the 2010 Henry David Thoreau Prize

Image of Betty Aberlin
Alumni

Actress, poet, and writer best known for her role as “Lady Aberlin” on the children’s television classic Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and more recently in movies including Dogma, Jersey Girl, and Red State

Image of Megan Mayhew Bergman
Former Faculty

Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA ’10 is a short-story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work focuses on the experiences of women and the psychological impact of environmental degradation. She was formerly the Director of the Robert Frost House Museum. 

Image of Rachel Lyon
Former Faculty

Rachel Lyon's novel Self-Portrait With Boy was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short work has recently appeared in One Story, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.

Image of Carolyn Cassady
Alumni

Author of Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, and model for Camille in Kerouac’s Beat classic

Image of Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Former Faculty

Poet and essayist whose work has been honored by the Western World Haiku Society

Image of Safiya Sinclair
Alumni

Poet whose first collection, Cannibal (2016), won a Prairie Schooner Book Prize and who received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2015.

Former Faculty

Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, a podcast. He is writing a book about the 1980s and a screenplay for Amazon Studios. 

Image of Michael Pollan
Alumni

Journalist and bestselling author who has raised the American consciousness of how food gets to our plates

Image of Kathleen Norris
Alumni

Guggenheim award-winning poet, writer, and author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith