MFA in Writing Archive

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...

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...