Profile

Barbara Hurd is the author of The Epilogues (Standing Stone Books, 2021); Listening to the Savage / River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (University of Georgia Press, 2016); Tidal Rhythms (with photographer Stephen Strom, George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016); Walking the Wrack Line (University of Georgia Press, 2008); Entering the Stone, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); and Stirring the Mud, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (Beacon Press, 2001).

Her work has appeared in numerous journals including LitHubBellingham Review, Terrain, Prairie Schooner, Best American Essays, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon, The Sun, and others. The recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, Pushcart Prizes, and five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, she teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. www.barbarahurd.com

Education

EdD | University of Maryland

MEd | Frostburg State University

BA - Sociology | William & Mary

Elena Passarello

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Richard Jackson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Clifford Thompson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/ hybrid forms]

T. Geronimo Johnson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

SJ Sindu

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Connie May Fowler

Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]; Director, Novel Retreat

Leslie Ullman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Fernando A. Flores

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Chachi Hauser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Brian Leung

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Barbara Hurd

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Philip Metres

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Caleb Curtiss

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

David Wojahn

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Clint McCown

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Wanjikū Wa Ngūgī

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Miciah Bay Gault

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Sue William Silverman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Natasha Sajé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry/CNF]

Betsy Sholl

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Robin MacArthur

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Ellen Lesser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Director, Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Patrick Madden

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]

Adam McOmber

Faculty Co-chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/hybrid forms]; Editor in Chief, Hunger Mountain Review

Nance Van Winckel

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/poetry]

Tarfia Faizullah

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Hasanthika Sirisena

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Melissa Faliveno

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Geoff Bouvier

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/poetry/hybrid forms]