October 8, 2025

Emily Berge MFA ’26 has sold The Last Mermaid of the Mississippi, her first middle-grade book, co-authored with Spencer Theilmann, to Aladdin/Simon & Schuster in a two-book deal. 

Christopher Bishop '72 is the author of Improvising careers: Succeed at Jobs that Don't Exist Yet, which was published in June 2025 by Morgan James. The book is based on his nonlinear, multimodal career path and the lectures he has been delivering at various universities in the US and the UK, including NYU Stern, Columbia, and Duke, as well as the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

Evan Brooke MFA '20 has sold her debut novel, Badwill, to Sean deLone at Atria. 

Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh by Kameryn Carter ’20 was released by Bloomsbury in September. The book explores the intersection of music and poetry through the lens of Erykah Badu's iconic album.

Sheena Cook MFA ’09 has sold her novel, Men Would Kill for This, to Harper Collins. It is slated for publication in 2027.

Steven Matthew Constantine MFA '14  cowrote a new book with Ann Wolbert Burgess, Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance, now available from Hachette Books.

Laura Cresté ’13 released her debut poetry collection In the Good Years in September 2025 from Four Way Books.

Seth DeCroce ’98, pen name Sparrow Hall, has published The Invisible Eye, a paranormal conspiracy thriller that blends literary and speculative fiction.

Kiran Desai ’93 has led a semi-hermetic existence focused on writing The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a 688-page multigenerational love story set in India and the U.S. Longlisted for the Booker Prize, the book has been featured in The New York Times.

George Michelsen Foy MFA ’98 published a new novel, The Winterpoor, via Sea Crow Press in September.

Kevin Galvin MFA '25 sold his book Troubled Times to Brandeis University Press. This story of a bombing in the heart of Boston a half-century ago explores the roots and costs of political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis. It is slated for publication in 2026.

Rhythm: Pattern in Time (Wooden Books) by Julian Gerstin ’75 explores rhythm in music, not only in drumming but also melody, composition, and improvisation. It covers many musical styles from around the globe, including Africa, the Caribbean, India, the Arabic world, Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Latin America and the United States. 

Guillermo Rebollo Gil MFA ’23 published his new poetry collection, To learn to describe the animal, via Gasher Press on September 25.

Tami Haaland MFA '00 has published her fourth collection of poetry, If I Had Said Beauty, with Lost Horse Press. 

Kaycie Hall MFA '22 sold her essay collection, Disenchanted, to Autofocus Books. It is slated for publication in fall 2026. 

Emilie Clothier Harting MFA ’97 published a memoir, Taking Care: A Daughter's Memoir, on August 15 by the Sensical Designs section of Roku Press. This literary memoir takes the reader from the poignant coming-of-age of a girl grappling with her mother’s enigmatic death to the introspective life of a woman navigating middle age with her mother’s lessons. It explores how societal perceptions of suicide have evolved from secrecy and shame to compassionate understanding since the mid-20th century, and the profound effects on those left behind.

The Crewel Wing (Briar Press NY, 2025), the debut novel by Erica-Lynn Huberty ’95, was featured at Author’s Night in August in  East Hampton, NY.  Briar Press is a women-founded and owned press with deep ties to Bennington, including Co-Founder and Editor Jaclyn Baer ’95, Associate Editor Aeven O’Donnell ’24, and web/graphics designer Jen Van Arsdale ’95. 

Phil Holland ’71 has published a significantly expanded second edition of his 2016 book, A Guide to The Battle of Bennington & the Bennington Monument, but he doubts he’s finished writing about the August 1777 victory that put the town on the world map.

Elizabeth Knapp MFA ’00’s third collection of poems, Causa Sui, has won the 8th Annual Three Mile Harbor Book Award and will be published in September. 

Denton Loving MFA '14 published his new poetry collection, Feller, via Mercer University Press on August 5. 

Anne Garland Mahler MFA ’27 published her book, A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe, on September 12 via Duke University Press

CE Mackenzie MFA '11 published their book, Achy Affects, on June 10 via University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Disaster Tourism, the latest poetry collection from Rena J. Mosteirin MFA ’18, is slated for release on October 14 via BOA Editions.

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Lance Richardson’s new book, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, is out October 14, 2025, from Pantheon Books.

Ian M. Rogers ’07's second novel, Carcrash Parker and the Haven of Larpers, was published with Vine Leaves Press in July. The novel is a satirical blend of high fantasy and eighties and nineties pop culture, and features illustrations by Sam Roman '07. 

Jordan Rosenfeld ’05 is the author of the recently published novel Fallout (Running Wild Press, 2025).

Amanda Sullivan ’09 published Playful STEAM Learning in the Early Years: An Educator's Guide to Screen-Free Explorations with Teachers College Press. 

Dylan Thuras ’04 published a new book for children, The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World.

Matthew Tuckner ’19’s debut collection of poems The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire will be released in fall 2025 by Four Way Books. 

In September, Erika Veurink MFA ’21 published her debut novel Exit Lane: An 831 Stories Romance, a deeply personal and propulsive romance laced with humor, heat, and high-octane yearning.

Are you a Bennington alum with a book coming out this year or next? Please share your publishing news with us at magazine@bennington.edu.