Past Faculty & Faculty on Leave Archive

Martine Leavitt has published ten novels for young adults, most recently Calvin, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award of Canada.

Shelley Tanaka is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books for children and young adults, including seven titles in the award-winning I Was There...

Uma Krishnaswami is the author of more than 25 books for young readers, including picture books, middle grade novels, a chapter book, and early readers. ...

Tom Birdseye was decidedly uninterested in writing as a kid – or any academic aspect of school, for that matter – never imagining that he would...

Alan Cumyn is the author of the beloved Owen Skye children’s novels—The Secret Life of Owen Skye, After Sylvia...

Connie May Fowler is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest, the memoir A Million Fragile Bones, was...

Ian Lynam is the Principal of Ian Lynam Design, a Tokyo design studio operating at the intersection of graphic design, design education, and design research....

Wilding was born in Colonia Primavera, Paraguay, in 1943 (British citizen, US permanent resident). She emigrated to the US in 1961. Wilding is an intermedia...

Laura is Founding Faculty of VCFA’s MFA in Film Program. She is a writer and director based in Providence, RI, where she also teaches screenwriting...

Nina Davenport has made five feature-length documentary films, all of which have won awards at film festivals, been broadcast on television stations around the world,...