MFA in Writing Archive

Bianca Stone is the author of five books, including the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), winner of the 2022 Vermont Book...

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead; The Seas, about a girl...

Long-time VCFA community member, former VCFA Director of Recruitment, and Writing alumnx Ann Dávila Cardinal (W ‘07) was nominated for a 2022 ...

The Vermont Book Awards will be honoring Vermont authors Saturday, May 6th, 2023 at 7:00pm EST in an event to be held at VCFA’s Alumnx...

VCFA alumnx and former VCFA Director of Recruitment Ann Dávila Cardinal (W ‘07) was nominated for a 2022 Vermont Book Award in the Fiction category...

“Sometimes there’s just something that presses to be written. And you just have to write. It’s in your mind, and it keeps being there, and...

In the fall of 2022, we interviewed Kevin McLellan (W ‘99), a self-identified “queer maker,” on their recent exhibition Wojnarowicz in Cambridge, the themes of...

William Giraldi’s memoir, The Hero’s Body, is a meditation on, among other things, masculinity, mortality, and his father. He is currently working...

Patricia Smith is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems(Scriber, 2025), Unshuttered (Northwestern 2023), Incendiary Art ...

Ravi Howard is the author of two novels, Like, Trees, Walking and Driving the King (HarperCollins). His writing has appeared in...