Past Faculty & Faculty on Leave Archive

Michel Negroponte is an award winning filmmaker who has been making feature length documentaries for more than 35 years.

Varian Johnson is the author of several novels for children and young adults, including The Parker Inheritance, which won both Coretta Scott...

Annie J. Howell is a screenwriter and director.

Mike Day is a Scottish director and cinematographer. Formerly a lawyer, Day founded Intrepid Cinema in 2009 before heading out into the North Atlantic on a...

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Malik Vitthal graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Liz Garton Scanlon (she/her) is a poet, picture book writer and middle grade author from Austin, Texas. She's served on the VCFA WCYA faculty since...

Nova Ren Suma is author of the #1 New York Times bestselling YA novel The Walls Around Us, which was a finalist...

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between, as well as Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams ...

Cynthia Leitich Smith is the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times-bestselling author of books for young readers, including ...

Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Josephine Decker premiered her first two narrative features at the...