Alumni News, Features
2022: A Year in Books
In 2022, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 50 books. Their writing spanned a wide range of genres from nonfiction essays, memoirs, and biographies, to novels, poetry, young adult literature, and short stories.
The Women's House of Detention
By Hugh Ryan MFA '09 | Faculty
This is Your Mind on Plants
By Michael Pollan '76
2022 Bennington Writing Seminars Publications
- Rebecca Balcárcel MFA ‘02, Shine On, Luz Véliz!, Chronicle Books
- Douglas Bauer, Faculty, The Beckoning World, University of Iowa Press
- Sam Bett, MFA candidate, My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura (translator), Penguin Random House; All the Lovers in The Night by Mieko Kawakami (translator)
- Remica Bingham Risher MFA ‘05, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, University of Georgia Press contributor); Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up, Beacon Press
- Brian Blanchfield, Former Faculty, Best American Essays 2022, Harper Collins (contributor)
- Blake Butler MFA ‘06, Aannex, Apocalypse Party
- Lauren Davis MFA ‘14, Home Beneath the Church, Fernwood Press
- James Dickson MFA ‘11, Some Sweet Vandal, Kelsay Books
- Jaimee Deuel-Kranz MFA ‘19, Field of Black Roses, Wingless Dreamer (contributor)
- Kevin Fitton MFA ‘15, Auras: Stories, Fomite
- Kate Hanson Foster MFA ‘08, Crow Funeral, Eastover Press
- Nathalie Handal MFA ‘02, VOLO, Diode Editions
- June Gervais MFA ‘12, Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair, Pamela Dorman Books
- Meghan Gilliss MFA ‘13, Lungfish, Catapult
- Ellen Graf MFA ‘07, Best American Essays 2022, Harper Collins (contributor)
- Debra Gwartney MFA ‘06, Best American Essays 2022, Harper Collins (contributor)
- Lise Haines MFA ‘02, Book of Knives, Poisoned Pen Press
- Kaycie Hall (MFA Candidate), Stricture, by Isabelle Nicou (translator)
- JoAnn Hart MFA ‘00, Among Animals 3, Ashland Creek Press (contributor)
- Angela Jackson MFA ‘12, More Than Meat and Raiment, Northwestern University Press
- Joanna Kadish MFA ‘15, Charting a Marriage, Adelaide Books
- Leslie Kirk Campbell MFA ‘13, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs, Sarabande Books
- Lisa C Krueger MFA ‘14, Doctor Poets & Other Healers: COVID in Their Own Words, Golden Foothills Press
- Erica Plouffe Lazure MFA ‘08, Proof of Me and Other Stories, New American Press
- Aimee Liu MFA ‘06, Dreams for a Broken World, Reckoning Press
- Dayna Lorenz MFA ‘09, Wayward Creatures, Clarion Books
- Elizabeth McCracken, Faculty, The Hero of This Book, Ecco Press; Best American Short Stories 2022, Harper Collins (contributor)
- Erika Nichols-Frazer MFA ‘19, Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness, Casper Press
- Miriam O’Neal MFA ‘99, Half-Said Things, Nixes Mate Books
- Michael Milligan MFA ‘02, Unless I Came Back to Tell You, Kelsay Books
- Emily Mohn-Slate MFA ‘14, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, University of Georgia Press contributor)
- Katie Marya MFA ‘17, Sugar Work, Alice James Books
- Namrata Poddar MFA ‘16, Border Less, 713 Books
- Rolf Potts MFA ‘11, The Vagabond's Way, Ballantine Books
- Andrew Reiner MFA ‘02, Navigating Narratives: A Thematic Reader, Hawkes Learning (contributor)
- Walter M. Robinson MFA '14, What Cannot Be Undone: True Stories of a Life in Medicine, University of New Mexico Press
- Moriel Rothman-Zecher (MFA Candidate), Before all the World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Erin Kate Ryan MFA ‘14, Quantum Girl Theory, Penguin Random House
- Hugh Ryan Faculty | MFA ‘09, The Women’s House of Detention, Bold Type Books
- Kathryn Savage MFA ‘13, Groundglass, Coffee House Press
- Angelique Stevens MFA ‘17, Best American Essays 2022, Harper Collins (contributor)
- Tony Taddei MFA ‘18, The Sons of the Santorelli, Bordighera Press
- Craig Morgan Teicher, Faculty | Director of Special Projects, Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson, BOA Editions
- Brent Terry MFA ‘01, 21st Century Autoimmune Blues, Unsolicited Press
- Clifford Thompson Faculty, Big Man and the Little Men: A Graphic Novel, Other Press
- Brian Tierney MFA ‘13, Rise and Float, Milkweed
- Randi Triant MFA ‘01, What We Give, What We Take, She Writes Press
- Sarai Walker MFA ‘03, The Cherry Robbers, Mariner Books
- Issam Zineh ( MFA Candidate), Unceded Land, Trio House Press
2022 Undergraduate Alumni and Faculty Publications
- David Bond, Faculty, Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment, University of California Press
- Franny Choi, Faculty, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on, Ecco Press
- Luke Mogelson ‘05, The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible, Penguin Press
- Michael Pollan ‘76, This is Your Mind on Plants, Penguin Books
- Brian Michael Murphy, Dean of the College, We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World, University of North Carolina Press
- Ian M. Rogers '07, MFA Thesis Novel, Vine Leaves Press
- Alec Wilkinson ‘74, A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
By Tara Ison MFA '99
Lost Person Behavior: Stories
By Amber Caron MFA '16
2023: A Preview
In 2023, along with welcoming a new class of Bennington undergraduates and Bennington Writing Seminars students—and the many works they will pen—the College is eagerly anticipating a robust lineup of 2023 publications, including:
- The Shards, a new novel by Bret Easton Ellis ’86, will be published in January.
- Bennington Writing Seminars faculty Katy Simpson Smith MFA ‘13 will publish her new novel, The Weeds in April.
- April Bernard, Writing Seminars faculty, will publish a new poetry collection, The World Behind the World in March.
2023 Upcoming Bennington Writing Seminars Publications
- Jasmin Attia MFA ‘21, The Oud Player of Old Cairo, Schaffner Press
- Ramona Ausubel, Faculty, The Last Animal, Riverhead Books
- J. Mae Barizo MFA ‘13, Tender Machines, Tupelo Press
- April Bernard, Faculty, The World Behind the World: Poems, W. W. Norton & Company
- Amber Caron MFA ‘16, Lost Person Behavior, Milkweed
- Lauren Davis MFA ‘14, When I Drowned, Kelsay Books
- Lauren Brazeal Garza MFA ‘16, Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I Was Here, Release Me, Tram Editions
- Carmen Giménez, Former Faculty, Nostalgia Has Such a Short Half-Life, Graywolf Press
- Tod Goldberg MFA ‘09, Playing Games, Subterranean Press (contributor)
- James Hall MFA ‘00, Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
- Amy Hempel, Faculty, Flash Fiction America, W. W. Norton
- Tim Hernandez MFA ‘11, Some of the Light, Beacon Press
- Tara Ison MFA ‘99, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Ig Publishing
- Meg Serino MFA ‘22, When the Sky Falls, Alcove Press
- Katy Simpson Smith MFA ‘13, Faculty, The Weeds, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Peter Trachtenberg, Faculty, TBA
- John West MFA ‘18, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Jamie Zvirzdin MFA '15, Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter, Johns Hopkins University Press
Excited to begin your own legacy as a published writer?
Check out what the undergraduate Literature and Writing Program at Bennington is all about, or learn more about a Bennington Education in general by contacting our Admissions Office.
Steeped in the Bennington College’s literary legacy, Bennington Writing Seminars is consistently named one of the top low-residency Masters of Fine Arts in Writing programs. During this two-year, low-residency program, students commit as much to reading as to writing and conceive reading lists that strengthen and broaden their knowledge. Students perform critical literary analysis and craft bold new works of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry inspired by their discoveries.
***
Are you a member of the Bennington College community? Is your book being published in 2023? Fill out this form and we will reach out to you!