Mary Caponegro

Mary Caponegro is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard, and has been on the faculty since 2002. She is the author of the short story collectionsThe Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. An international collection of essays on her work, The Exquisite Interruption: Essays, Notes, and Fragments on the Lyrical Prose of Mary Caponegro (La squisita interruzione: saggi, note e appunti sulla prosa lirica di Mary Caponegro), was published in 2018 by Campanotto Editore. She is a contributor to the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and a contributing editor for Conjunctions. Her honors include the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature, General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, Bruno Arcudi Award, Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, Teacher of the Year Award from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Undergraduate Teaching Award from Syracuse University, a Yaddo Residency, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.