MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

Running Press published Kate Hosford's A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems About Sleeping Animals in November 2019, with illustrations by Jennifer Potter.

Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India, the setting of her latest novel, The Bridge Home.

In 2019 alone, Printz Honor recipient Julie Berry released three picture books and a YA novel.

Eric Pinder's book The Perfect Pillow, published by Disney-Hyperion, received the 2019 New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children's Literature. 

Donna Bowman Bratton's picture book, King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara, was published by Peachtree on October 1, 2019. 

Classmates Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn's INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED: How a Team of Women Coded the Future was published by Disney/Hyperion on October…

Linka's YA thriller, What I Want You to See, about an art student so desperate to hold onto her scholarship that she becomes a pawn…

Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King…

Gilbert Ford holds a BFA in illustration from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine…

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a tattooed-Gringa-Rican-punk, a novelist, and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts where she earned her MFA in Writing.