Alumni News

Image of Ecstasy book cover Horror Inspired by the Classics

The Brooklyn Rail's Jackie Corley MFA '11 interviewed LA Times Book Prize winner Ivy Pochoda MFA '11 about Pochoda's latest novel Ecstasy, "a deliciously dark horror reimagining of a Greek tragedy."

Image of Claudia Rowe Claudia Rowe '88 Named Finalist for National Book Award in Nonfiction

Claudia Rowe '88 is a finalist for a National Book Award in Nonfiction for her book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care.

Image of Sofia Alvarez with podcasters To All The Screenplays I Wrote Before

Sofia Alvarez '07 joined an episode of the When Isabel Met Aviva podcast, discussing her journey from playwright to screenwriter and work on adaptations for To All the Boys I've Loved Before and Along for the Ride.

Image of Tata’ Xuan, shaman with the sacred Maya calendar of fiestas and rituals used in Maya ceremonies Exploring Lives and Cultures with Fran Antmann '69

Fran Antmann '69 is a documentary photographer, writer, and professor. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of the indigenous people of Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, the Dene First Nation people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada.

Daniel Pentlarge '80, Ron Cohen, and Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81 Reunion Find: Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81's tribute to faculty member in social science Ron Cohen

Over lunch on the Saturday of reunion weekend, October 4, Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81 remembered a letter she wrote to recommend her favorite Bennington teacher Ron Cohen for a teaching award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The letter reveals much of what it was like to be a student with Ron Cohen then and something of the faculty-student mentorship culture that endure today. The letter appears below along with Ron's humble and humorous response.