Bennington College Book News: Fall 2026
Bennington College alumni and faculty members are publishing novels, memoirs, essay collections, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this fall.
Amra Brooks '95 published her memoir Mother Is a Place on September 15, 2026, with Dopamine/Semiotext(e) with distribution by MIT.
Vanishing Point, a historical novel by Ellen Prentiss Campbell MFA ’09, was published May 27, 2026. A family epic, the book spans three generations and a hundred years, from the 1880s to the 1980s.
Franny Choi published their essay collection, We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg, on October 6, 2026, by Ecco.
Jaime Clarke MFA '97 completed a publishing cycle that includes the 10th anniversary editions of his trilogy featuring Charlie Martens (Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes), as well as the 25th anniversary edition of his first novel, WE'RE SO FAMOUS, annotated by the author.
Jessica Danger MFA '16 published her memoir, No Heroic Measures, in May 2026 with Santa Fe Writers Project.
Jack El-Hai MFA ’09’s The Case of the Autographed Corpse: A Medicine Man and a Mystery Writer in Pursuit of Justice will be published on October 6, 2026, from Pegasus Books.
Kevin Galvin MFA ’25 published his book Troubled Times, the story of a bombing in the heart of Boston a half-century ago, which explores the roots and costs of political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis, with Brandeis University Press in October 2026.
Roma Roam, a book of poetry by Nathalie Handal ’02, will be published by Barrow Street in October 2026.
No Glory: A Military Family's Reckoning, a memoir by Gail Hosking MFA ’97, will be published by Kentucky University Press in December 2026.
Family Language, the debut novel by Nicole Nelson MFA '19, will be published by Melville House in November 2026.
The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch, a novel by Genevieve Plunkett ’11, was published on September 15 by Feminist Press.
Fertile Circuits, the second book by John Beebe-West MFA '18, reveals the rot lurking in the foundation of the internet and argues we should embrace the death of our online ephemera in order to reclaim a more human world. It is slated for publication in fall 2026 through Eerdmans.