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In addition to the current faculty, Bard has an impressive legacy of visiting writers and writers in residence, including Chinua Achebe, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, William Gaddis, Anthony Hecht, Mary McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Peter Orner, Cynthia Ozick, Salvador Plascencia, Philip Roth, Karen Russell, and Nobel laureates Orhan Pamuk, José Saramago, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Program Administration

Dinaw Mengestu | Program Director | [email protected]
Megan Brien '19 | Program Coordinator | [email protected]

Core Faculty

Mary Caponegro 
Masha Gessen
Benjamin Hale 
Michael Ives
Ann Lauterbach
Valeria Luiselli
Dawn Lundy Martin
Wyatt Mason
Dinaw Mengestu
Jenny Offill
Joseph O'Neill
Mona Simpson
Jenny Xie

Affiliated Faculty

Bradford Morrow
Daniel Mendelsohn
Erica Kaufman

Franz Nicolay
Phil Pardi
Francine Prose

BFP Writer in Residence

Bard Fiction Prize Winner

Each spring semester, the winner of the prestigious Bard Fiction Prize is in residence on campus. The author has weekly office hours when students are free to drop in and chat about their writing. Past winners have also hosted student activities—Karen Russell held a book club, Brian Conn conducted a collaborative workshop, and Bennett Sims had film screenings. For office hours and other information for the current BFP writer in residence, email the program coordinator at [email protected].

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