Manuel Gonzales and Dinah Lenney

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Manuel Gonzales and Dinah Lenney will read as part of the Writers Reading Series. 

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! A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children. He joins the Bennington faculty in fall 2018 and is also a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Dinah Lenney most recently co-edited Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, with the late Judith Kitchen. She’s the author of The Object Parade and Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir and co-authored Acting for Young Actors. Dinah holds a B.A. from Yale, a Certificate of Acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, the Harvard Review, The Rumpus, the Paris Review Daily, and the Los Angeles Review of Books where she serves as a senior editor of nonfiction.