MFA in Writing Archive

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, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Northwestern University...

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

Laura Warrell is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has attended residencies at the Bread Loaf...

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.