MFA in Writing Archive

Mary Cappello is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour (Bellevue Literary Press, 2007), a Los Angeles ...

Victor LaValle is the award-winning author of slapboxing with jesus (Vintage, 1999), The Ecstatic (Crown, 2002), Big Machine (Spiegel...

Ada Limón is the author of four books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was named a finalist for...

Emily Raboteau is known for writing about race, identity, and social justice. She is author of the novel The Professor's Daughter (Henry Holt,...

Kyle Dargan is the author of four collections of poetry, Honest Engine (2015), Logorrhea Dementia (2010), Bouquet of Hungers...

J.  Kates is a poet, literary translator, and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts...

Richard Michelson's many books for children, teens and adults have been listed among the Ten Best of the Year by The New York ...

JERICHO PARMS is the author of Lost Wax (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, ...

VCFA Reads: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

Alison Bechdel created the countercultural comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which ran in lesbian and gay publications from 1983 to...