Bennington College Book News: Spring 2026
Bennington College alumni are publishing novels, memoirs, non-fiction books, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this spring.
Antediluvian by Kameryn Carter ’20 was published in February 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality.
No Heroic Measures: A Memoir by Jessica Danger MFA '16 will be published in May 2026 by the Santa Fe Writers Project.
Victoria Kirsch Houston '67’s thirtieth book, The Wolves Are Watching, was published on February 24 by Crooked Lane Books. This is the fourth book in The Lew Ferris Mystery Series, which is an extension of The Loon Lake Mystery Series from Simon & Schuster. The same characters experience “murder, mayhem and fishing in northern Wisconsin."
Jan Hadwen Hubbell '78 published The Boy Who Couldn’t Say Goodbye, a picture book aimed at helping young children better cope with life transitions.
Patricia Martin MFA '22 published WILL THE FUTURE LIKE YOU: Reflections on the Age of Hyper-reinvention on January 29, 2026, with Karnac Books UK. It explores the profound dangers our 24/7 online existence poses: not only to how we behave and think, but to whom we are and how we form ourselves.
Lucie McKee MFA '86's second book, Stoking Up Morning, is out in April 2026 from Green Writer's Press. Her first book, Anything and its Shadow, was published by Green Writer’s Press in 2025. Her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Southern Review, and many others.
Lisa Johnson Mitchell MFA ’18 will publish Hair Brush with Fame in May 2026 by Finishing Line Press.
Sasha Wade MFA ’20 is one of four winners of Palette Poetry’s 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize for her collection Notes from the Field, forthcoming in spring 2026.
Denise Walsh '85, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, published Imperial Sexism: Why Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash (Oxford University Press, 2025), which draws on fieldwork across South Africa, France, and Canada to argue that the compounding harms of race and gender rooted in the colonial era shape contemporary debates about practices like veiling and polygyny in democracies worldwide.
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.