MFA in Writing Archive

Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, TX. He is the author of Zero Saints and ...

Negesti Kaudo is a Midwestern essayist. She is an alumnx of Elon University where she received Bachelor of Arts degrees in English/Creative Writing and Psychology...

Samiya Bashir, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, writing for Booklist, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer,...

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam (SIU, 2014). Her...

Kaveh Akbar is the author of two books of poetry—Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice...

Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and...

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and Take My Hand...

Dominic Bucca is the author of Faculty Brat: A Memoir of Abuse, winner of the 2019 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. A...

VBA judges honored GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA as 2021's top book by a Vermont poet.

Fellowship grant funds from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will support the two VCFA faculty members' creative work and scholarship.