Bennington College Book News: Summer 2025
Bennington College alumni and faculty members are publishing novels, memoirs, short story collections, non-fiction books, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this summer.
Architect Robert Barnstone '85 was a professor at Washington State University. His work has included social enterprise building with a design build studio and wood materials engineering and research. He recently published a book, Making Houston Modern, on his uncle Howard Barnstone's work, including the Rothko Chapel, with University of Texas Press.
Portlander Andrew Barton ’09’s memoir-slash-cookbook, Free Food, revisits the back-to-the-land ethos.
Jeanne Bonner MFA ’16 translated a lost Italian classic—a 1962 short story collection, This Darkness Will Never End (Paul Dry Books), by a Hungarian-born Italian writer who survived the Holocaust.
Steven Matthew Constantine MFA ’14 will publish Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance via Hachette Books on July 22.
Tami Haaland MFA ’00 published her fourth poetry collection, If I Had Said Beauty, on April 1 via Lost Horse Press.
The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States by Bennington College faculty member John Hultgren was published in May 2025 by The MIT Press.
Molly Jong-Fast MFA ’04 published a memoir, How to Lose Your Mother. Kirkus called it, “the best book Jong-Fast could have written about the worst year of her life.”
Ellen Kanner '83 released a new cookbook, Miami Vegan: Plant-Based Recipes From the Tropics to Your Table, in May 2025.
Jason Lagapa ’91, PhD, will publish Unimportant Clerks: the New York School Poets and the Culture of Bureaucracy from SUNY press in August 2025.
CE Mackenzie MFA ’11 will publish their memoir Achy Affects: Crisis and Compositions of Selfhood through University of Pittsburgh Press on June 10.
Five-time New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Norris ’69 returns in September 2025 with the memoir Rebecca Sue: A Sister's Reflections on Disability, Faith, and Love, published by InterVarsity Press.
Meg Serino MFA '22 published her novel Annapurna through Regalo Press on May 6.
Faculty member in Music Allen Shawn’s latest book is In the Realm of Tones: A Composer's Memoir.
Carolyn Wolf-Gould MFA '27 published her book, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States, via SUNY Press.
Katie Yee ’17’s first novel, Maggie, or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, was published in July. It has been noted as a summer read by Oprah, Time, The New York Times, and others.
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.