Alumni News
Road to Paradise at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams FestivalRoad to Paradise by Carson Efird ’05 is being restaged by faculty members Jenny Rohn and Kirk Jackson at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Mass. The piece was originally commissioned by Bennington Drama for the first year of the festival, and has been invited to return for the 10th anniversary celebration.
Malti-Douglas MFA '11 Wins MedalThe National Endowment for the Humanities has named Fedwa Malti-Douglas (nonfiction, June ’11) a National Humanities Medalist for her studies of Arabic letters. Fedwa has mapped the discourse of gender and letters in the Arab Middle East and applied her insights to American culture.
Mayhew Bergman Appointed Associate Director of the MFA in Writing ProgramMegan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10) has been appointed associate director of the MFA in Writing Program at Bennington College. She is the author of two critically acclaimed works of short fiction (Birds of a Lesser Paradise and Almost Famous Women) and is at work on a novel that will be published by Scribner.
Sinclair ’10 Wins Prize in PoetrySafiya Sinclair '10 has been awarded the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, given by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for her manuscript, Cannibal. Sinclair is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she is a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow.
Local Girls "Began at Bennington"Caroline Zancan MFAW '14, author of Local Girls, links her debut novel to her time at Bennington in an interview with Melville House.