Alumni News
Horror Inspired by the ClassicsThe 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."
Claudia Rowe '88 Named Finalist for National Book Award in NonfictionClaudia 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.
To All The Screenplays I Wrote BeforeSofia 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.
Exploring Lives and Cultures with Fran Antmann '69Fran 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.
Reunion Find: Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81's tribute to faculty member in social science Ron CohenOver 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.