This is a list of notable alumni of Connecticut College.
Literature and poetry
Michael Collier ('76): Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2001–2004; Director of The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College Dobby Gibson ('93): poet Aracelis Girmay ('99): poet Cecelia Holland ('65): novelist Gayl Jones ('72): novelist, poet, playwright William Lychack ('88): novelist Luanne Rice ('77): novelist
Authors and writers
Sloane Crosley ('00): best-selling author; essayist; publicist with Vintage Books David Grann ('89): journalist and best-selling and staff writer at The New Yorker Joshua Green ('94): senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek and a weekly columnist for the Boston Globe Jazmine Hughes ('12): writer and editor; currently a story editor at The New York Times Magazine Nan Kempner ('52): socialite, contributing editor of Vogue Elizabeth Peer ('57): journalist; first female foreign bureau chief at Newsweek A. B. Stoddard ('89): journalist, political commentator, associate editor of The Hill
Academia
Edward Burger ('85): professor of mathematics, Williams College
Martha Chen: lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Cynthia Enloe ('60): research professor of international relations and women's studies, Clark University Haden Guest ('93): Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and lecturer at Harvard University David Haussler ('75): professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, member of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mark Samuels Lasner: Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Shelley Taylor ('68): social psychologist, pioneer in health psychology, winner of Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from APA Roxanne Johnson: Chemist working at United States Environmental Protection Agency Ellen Vitetta ('64): Director, Cancer Immunobiology Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center National Acad. Sciences; Institute of Medicine; American Acad. Arts and Sciences
Design, art, and art history
Agnes Gund: philanthropist, art patron and collector, advocate for arts education Christine Y. Kim: associate curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; former associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem Peter Som ('93): fashion designer, winner of the 2002 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation prize Marcia Tucker: first female curator of the Whitney Museum; founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Television and radio
H. Jon Benjamin: actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles
Molly Cheek ('73): It's Garry Shandling's Show
Lee Eisenberg ('99): writer and producer for The Office and the film Year One
Chris Gifford (actor) ('81): Co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning children's series "Dora the Explorer" Scott Lowell: actor, Queer as Folk Leland Orser ('82): actor Christof Putzel ('01): award-winning journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera America Joan Rivers: actress, comedian; attended CC briefly, then transferred to Barnard College Susan Saint James: actress, Kate & Allie; attended CC, did not graduate Sam Seder: writer, actor, political commentator, radio host on Air America Alec Sulkin ('95) and Wellesley Wild ('94): writers and executive producers on Family Guy, The Orville and the 85th Academy Awards
Film, theater and dance
Ted Chapin ('72): President and executive director, Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Charles Chun ('90): actor who has appeared in television shows such as Criminal Minds, Scrubs, Everybody Loves Raymond, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and How I Met Your Mother Chrystelle Trump Bond: dancer, choreographer, author, and dance historian David Dorfman (MFA '81): Professor of Dance, chair of Dance Department, choreographer of modern dance Sean Fine ('96): winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Inocente; director of Academy Award-nominated feature documentary War/Dance Jeffrey Finn ('92): Broadway producer, nominated for 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for On Golden Pond Judy Irving ('68): Emmy Award and Sundance-winning filmmaker Raja Feather Kelly ('09): American dancer and choreographer and serves as the artistic director of the New Brooklyn Theatre Leland Orser ('82) Actor and director known for Taken, Taken 2 and Se7en Estelle Parsons ('49): stage, film, and television actor; winner of 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde Kevin Wade ('76): screenwriter, Working Girl, Meet Joe Black