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May 7, 2025

ALUMNX NEWS: brandon brown (W ’23) Receives PEN America Short Story Award

VCFA MFA in Writing alumnx and current VCFA MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program Director brandon brown (W ’23) recently received a...
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April 29, 2025

Rebecca Jamieson (WP ’20): Real Writers Don’t Write Alone

A graduate of VCFA’s former MFA in Writing & Publishing program, writer, editor, and educator Rebecca Jamieson is a believer in the  power of the...
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News March 21, 2025

VCFA at AWP 2025

VCFA faculty, alumnx, and current students are set to attend the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles,...
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News March 21, 2025
January 29, 2025

ALUMNX STORY: Ann Huang, 2014 MFA in Writing

“I believe poetry is an indispensable medium for the cinematic arts to flourish and will continue to challenge and expand the possibilities of what can...
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January 6, 2025

Vandana Khanna

Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Train to Agra,...
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December 10, 2024

Martha Collins

Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019); the latter...
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December 10, 2024

Jehanne Dubrow

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of creative nonfiction, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (New...
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December 10, 2024

Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed’s most recent books include Direct Sunlight, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, The Virginity of Famous Men, and Paris, He Said. She’s...
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News December 4, 2024

Announcing VCFA’s 2025 Winter-Spring Faculty Roster

In anticipation of our winter 2025 residency—taking place on the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) campus in Valencia, CA from January 3-11, 2025—our six...
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News December 4, 2024
December 4, 2024

ALUMNX STORY: Kristie Frederick-Daugherty, 2005 MFA in Writing

Poet, professor, VCFA MFA in Writing alumnx, and self-described “Swiftie” Kristie Frederick-Daugherty (W ’05) has dedicated her PhD thesis and her new collection, Invisible Strings:...
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