MFA in Writing Archive

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005),...

In anticipation of our winter 2024 residency—taking place on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA from January 5-13, 2024—our six...

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and...

Arkansas-born PATRICIA SPEARS JONES has lived and worked in New York City since 1974.  She is a poet, playwright, educator, cultural activist, and anthologist and...

Dionne Irving is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Quint (7.13 Books) and The Islands (Catapult Books). Her work has appeared in...

Anna Badkhen is the author of seven books, most recently Bright Unbearable Reality, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and for the 2023 Jan...

The cover has recently been revealed for MFA in Writing faculty member Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s (W ‘19) highly anticipated debut novel, The Road to the ...

Samantha Jacobson, a Vermont native, brings her love of books and design to VCFA. Previously, she worked in publishing in New York, studied photography in...

Clifford Thompson’s books include What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (2019), which Time magazine called one of the “most anticipated”...

Chachi D. Hauser (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker. Chachi’s debut book, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know, was published in March...