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Author Jonathan Lethem '86's new novel Chronic City was hailed as "astonishing" this week in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Following President Obama's speech on health care reform, author Michael Pollan '76 urged legislators to consider the impact of the food industry on the state of the current system.

Author and longtime Knopf editor Judith Jones '45, who helped launch Julia Child's career, and the late Dorothy Cousins '39, Child's sister, are both portrayed in Julie & Julia, a new movie based on the cooking icon's life.

Bestselling author and Bennington alumna Kathleen Norris '69 will speak and read from selected works on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Deane Carriage Barn. The event—this year's Candace DeVries Olesen '50 Lectureship for Distinguished Alumni—is free and open to the public.

According to a recent article in The Boston Globe, fewer novels today are being adapted for film, making novelists who have found success in the Hollywood marketplace, such as faculty member Rebecca Godwin, increasingly rare.

San Francisco Chronicle food and wine editor Michael Bauer dedicated a recent blog entry to author and longtime Alfred A. Knopf editor Judith Jones '45, whose latest memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Foodhas received favorable reviews from The New York Times and elsewhere.

During a post-Katrina panel discussion with a group of New Orleans-based artists in early 2006, Dan Cameron '79, then-senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, just blurted it out: "A biennial would go really, really well in New Orleans."  

Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai '93 was one of sixteen Indian writers who traveled across the country to document the HIV/AIDS crisis for the new book AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India.

Michael Pollan ’76 seems to have stirred the political pot with his much-read column in The New York Times asking the next U.S. president to rethink the nation’s food policy. President Barack Obama cited Pollan’s piece at length in a pre-election interview with Time Magazine:

Bennington psychology faculty member David Anderegg will read from his new book Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont on Thursday, May 15, 2008.

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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.

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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. 

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Alumni

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

Reginald Shepherd
Alumni

Reginald Shepherd '88 was an American poet and teacher. His latest publication, The Selected Shepherd: Poems, appeared in 2024.

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Former Faculty

Ariél M. Martinez is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been published or is forthcoming from The Rumpus and Peach Mag. She is working on a memoir.

Part IV of Making space—for home, for preservation, for performance, for community.

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Alumni

Executive editor and regular contributor for Wine Spectator magazine

Akiko Busch
Former Faculty

Akiko Busch’s writings—books and essays in publications ranging from Metropolis to The New York Times—weave together design, culture, and nature to address things like the geography of the home, citizen science, and the lives of objects.

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Faculty

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.

Gretel Ehrlich, Bennington College class of 1967.
Alumni

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

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Alumni

Curator, producer, poet, choreographer, and performance artist whose works #negrophobia (nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award) and Séancers have toured throughout Europe, appearing in major festivals. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.

Photograph © Umi Akiyoshi

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Former Faculty

Jeanie Riess is a writer from New Orleans and is currently working on her first novel, which is about Mississippi.

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Alumni

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

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Faculty

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

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Former Faculty

Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His latest novel The Family Clause (FSG) was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Alumni

Senior Writer and Editor at Optimism and previous Weekend Editor at IndieWire, whose work has also appeared in the LA TimesSalonVice, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Manuel Gonzales headshot
Faculty

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!

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Alumni

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

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Alumni

Trans* poet, curator, and artist. Author of I NEED MUSICBlackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture Take This Stallion, and Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus.

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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.