MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

Jen Breach (they/them) is the author of around thirty nonfiction books for children on everything from the politics of global foodways and LGBTQ+ families to...

VCFA interviewed MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnx Nora Shalaway Carpenter (WCYA ’12) and Rocky Callen (WCYA ’19) on their co-edited YA...

Feather Flores joined Simon & Schuster / Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2022 after four years at Chronicle Books. She works on smart, joyful...

Matt Phelan is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author/illustrator of picture books, middle grade novels, and graphic novels for young readers. Matt...

The VCFA community will be represented this year at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference.

Hunger Mountain released its 29th issue, the Winter 2024 issue, on February 1, 2024. Hunger Mountain is VCFA’s esteemed and well-loved literary...

In anticipation of our winter 2024 residency—taking place on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA from January 5-13, 2024—our six...

Nick Thomas is Executive Editor at Levine Querido in the U.S.A. He has previously held roles at Bloomsbury, Chicken House, David Fickling Books, and Arthur...

Cynthia Leitich Smith (she/her) is the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate as well as a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling children’s-YA writer, a writing...

Author and filmmaker, Brian Young is a graduate of both Yale University with a Bachelor’s in Film Studies and Columbia University with a Master’s in...