Padma Venkatraman
Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India, the setting of her latest novel, The Bridge Home.
MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive
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Julie Berry, 2009 MFA in WCYA
In 2019 alone, Printz Honor recipient Julie Berry released three picture books and a YA novel.
Eric Pinder, 2011 MFA in WCYA
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, 2017 MFA in WCYA
Donna Bowman Bratton's picture book, King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara, was published by Peachtree on October 1, 2019.
Tami Brown & Debbie Dunn, 2006 MFA in WCYA
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...
Catherine Linka, 2006 MFA in WCYA
Linka's YA thriller, What I Want You to See, about an art student so desperate to hold onto her scholarship that she...
Charles R. Smith
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
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
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....
Public Events for Summer 2019 WCYA Residency
Ellen Oh, Jennifer A. Nielsen, and faculty emerita Kathi Appelt are the special guests at this summer's MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults...