Written Arts Program News Today

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist, and memorist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College announces the appointment of esteemed writer Dinaw Mengestu as Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities, effective spring 2021. Mengestu, a recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Award, is director of the Written Arts Program at Bard. He is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008), How to Read the Air (2010), and All Our Names (2014). For more information about Bard’s Written Arts Program, please visit written...