Alumni •
Alan Briskin – organizational consultant •
Ann Gillespie – actor
(Beverly Hills, 90210) •
Anna Lee Walters — author •
Archie Shepp – saxophonist •
Blakeley White-McGuire – Principal dancer of
Martha Graham Dance Company •
Bradford Graves – sculptor, musician, professor (fine arts, sculpture) •
Cara Hoffman – novelist •
Caroline Finkelstein – poet •
Charlie Bondhus – poet •
Chris Spirou — politician •
Christine Palm — member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives •
Christopher Dell - historian, author, literary critic, and employee at the
Library of Congress •
Conrad Herwig – jazz trombonist •
Daniel Boyarin – professor of Jewish Studies •
David Gallaher – graphic novelist •
David Helvarg – journalist and environmental activist •
David Mamet – writer, director, Pulitzer prize winner in drama (
Glengarry Glen Ross) •
Ed Allen – American short story writer •
Elaine Terranova – poet •
Ellen Bryant Voigt – MacArthur Genius, former State Poet of Vermont •
Ellen Ratner —
White House correspondent •
Ellis Avery – novelist and poet •
Esther Wertheimer – sculptor •
Evalyn Bates – progressive educator, developed the first low-residency American adult degree program •
Frances Olsen – professor of law at UCLA •
Geraldine Clinton Little – poet •
Helen Landgarten – art therapy pioneer •
Howard Ashman – actor, playwright (
Little Shop of Horrors), lyricist (
The Little Mermaid,
Beauty and the Beast) •
J. Ward Carver –
Vermont Attorney General, 1925–1931 •
Jacqueline Berger — poet •
James Gahagan – abstract artist •
Jane O'Meara Sanders – former president of
Burlington College, wife of
Senator Bernie Sanders •
Jane Shore – poet •
Jared Pappas-Kelley – curator, writer, and artist •
Jay Craven – Vermont film director, screenwriter, and professor •
Jeff McCracken — film and television actor, director, writer, and producer •
Jennifer McMahon — novelist •
Jerri Allyn — performance artist •
John Kasiewicz – guitarist •
Jon Fishman – rock band member (Phish) •
Jonathan Katz – comedian, writer, actor, producer
(Dr. Katz) •
Judith Arcana — writer •
Karen Essex — author, journalist, screenwriter •
Kenneth R. Timmerman – correspondent, author, activist •
Kiara Brinkman — author •
Kris Neely – artist and educator •
Larry Feign – cartoonist
(The World of Lily Wong) •
Laura McCullough – poet and writer •
Linda McCarriston – poet and professor •
Linnea Johnson – poet •
Lisa Brooks – historian of New England's Native American history •
Lucia Capacchione —
art therapist •
Madeline Stone — songwriter •
Mark Doty – poet, National Book Award winner, 2008 •
Mary Johnson – author and director of A Room of Her Own Foundation •
Mary Karr – author •
Mayme Agnew Clayton – librarian, and the founder of the Western States Black Research and Education Center •
Michael Lent – visual artist and curator •
Monica Mayer – Mexican artist •
Mumia Abu Jamal – journalist, former
Black Panther Party member, convict, author •
Oliver Foot – British actor, philanthropist, charity worker •
Page McConnell – rock band member (Phish) •
Pamela Stewart – poet •
Paul Zaloom – puppeteer, host of television show ''
Beakman's World'' •
Peter Hannan – artist, writer, producer (
CatDog) •
Philip Zuchman – American painter •
Piers Anthony – English American author •
Robert Louthan — poet •
Robert M. Fisher – abstract artist •
Ronnie Burrage — jazz percussionist •
Roo Borson —poet •
Russell Potter – Arctic historian, author •
Stephen C. Smith – economist, professor, author •
Sue Owen — poet •
Susan Tichy — poet •
Susie Ibarra – contemporary composer and percussionist •
Suzi Wizowaty – author and politician •
Taina Asili — musician •
Tim Costello (1945–2009), labor and
anti-globalization advocate and author •
Tobias Schneebaum – artist, anthropologist, AIDS activist •
Tom Griffin – playwright of
The Boys Next Door •
Tommie Smith – athlete, activist, educator, gold medal winner at the
1968 Summer Olympics who set seven individual world records •
Tony Curtis (Welsh poet) (born 1946) – Welsh poet and author •
Trey Anastasio – guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Phish •
Wayne Karlin – author •
William H. Macy – actor •
William L. White – addiction studies •
William Wildman Campbell — United States House of Representatives •
Yadira Guevara-Prip — stage and television actor.
Faculty, staff and administration •
Arisa White – faculty advisor in the BFA Creative Writing Program •
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg – American writer and third Kansas
Poet Laureate who founded Goddard's Transformative Language Arts program •
David Mamet – American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director •
Ernie Stires — composer •
Heather McHugh — poet •
John Irving — author •
Lisel Mueller – poet •
Louise Gluck —
Nobel Laureate, poet, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry •
Marvin Bell — first Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa •
Michael Ryan — poet •
Robert Hass — poet •
Tobias Wolff — author •
Walter Butts – American poet and the
Poet Laureate of
New Hampshire. ==See also==