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Louise Bokkenheuser, an MFA candidate in Fiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars, was a crime reporter, gossip columnist and war correspondent before becoming an editor. Her first book, a memoir, was published in 2009.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the poet Louise Bogan and the painters Jackson Pollock and Esteben Vicente whose writings on literature and art have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Art in America, The Nation, and ARTnews
The acclaimed poetry of Michael Dumanis weaves together memories of childhood, diaspora, and dislocation.
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.
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Puloma Ghosh is a fiction writer from Boston, Massachusetts, she is currently working on a collection of short speculative fiction.
Nicolette Polek '15 is the author of Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020). She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and is currently based in New York.
Published his first novel, Less Than Zero, while at Bennington, and went on to critical acclaim for books like American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction
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Screenwriter whose many credits include Good Morning, Vietnam, M*A*S*H, and Monk
Brooke Allen’s articles in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and her books on topics ranging from the American founding fathers’ religious beliefs to the life of Benazir Bhutto have received critical acclaim.
Writer for GQ, McSweeney’s, Jezebel, Vulture, and New York Magazine and the television series Sirens and Gracie and Frankie, who was declared one of the “funniest women on Twitter” by The Huffington Post
Annie DeWitt is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her debut novel, White Nights In Split Town City, was lauded as "Masterful,” and “full of syntactic daring." "The study of a failing family—how it is dismantled from within, how it is threatened by the world outside" –BookForum
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.
Introduced the world to Julia Child, James Beard, and Madhur Jaffrey as senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf
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A combined interest in LGBTQ studies, comparative literature, film studies, and Eastern European culture is at the center of Alexandar Mihailovic’s writing and teaching. Among other subjects, he writes and teaches about artificial intelligence in literature and popular culture, postcolonial women writers and filmmakers, and Russian Jewish literature.
Stefania Heim is an award-winning poet, scholar, translator, editor and educator, committed to the intersections between these pursuits.
Matthew Groner is a fiction writer working on his first novella, Every Good Atom.
Mary Ruefle '74 is an award-winning poet and erasure artist. Her latest poetry collection, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Award and longlisted for the NBA and the NBCC Award.
Deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former editor of the European edition of TIME magazine, and author of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.
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.
Award-winning novelist and biographer of Georgia O’Keeffe
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Writer whose work in many genres have won him spots on bestseller lists, a National Book Critics Award, and a coveted MacArthur “Genius Grant”
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Former Editor-in-Chief of Ladies' Home Journal and current Senior Vice President of AARP
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.
Benjamin Anastas has received support for his work as a novelist, literary journalist, and critic from the Lannan Foundation and the MacDowell Colony.
Poet and essayist, and winner of the Guggenheim and a Whiting Writers’ Award
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Part IV of Making space—for home, for preservation, for performance, for community.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2014
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