MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

brandon brown (he/they) is a Winter 2023 graduate of the MFA in Writing program. They say they came here for their “MFA in strange stories.”...

CENTER FOR ARTS + SOCIAL JUSTICE STORIES: Meet writer and class of 2024 WCYA candidate Ty Chapman, one of six recipients of our 2022 VCFA...

VCFA alumnx Lyn Miller-Lachmann (WCYA ‘12) was awarded the distinguished Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature in the spring of 2023 for...

Kelly Starling Lyons is a founding member of The Brown Bookshelf, teaching artist and award-winning children’s book author. Her mission is to center Black heroes,...

Evan Griffith is the author of the middle-grade novel Manatee Summer (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection) and the picture book biography ...

Erica S. Perl (she/her) is the author of more than forty popular and critically-acclaimed books for children and teens. A former criminal defense attorney, she...

Veera Hiranandani is the award-winning author of several books for young people. Her most recent middle-grade novel, How to Find What You're Not Looking ...

In early 2023, VCFA interviewed 2013 WCYA graduate Jen Lynn Bailey, author of the picture book This is the Boat that Ben Built (Pajama Press...

Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper.

Donna Barba Higuera's Middle Grade and Picture books reinvent history, folklore, and or her own life experience into compelling storylines. She...