MFA in Writing Archive

Emily Bernard was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a BA and PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared...

Writing alumnx Shelagh Shapiro ('03) has been engaged in conversations about craft on the air and on the page for decades. Shapiro is the host...

Shanta participated in an e-interview with us in November of 2020. Below are edited excerpts from our conversations about coming to writing, her Vermont ...

Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There (Knopf), was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the paper’s 10...

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award,...

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four volumes of poetry: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner...

The Root online magazine listed Laurie Jean’s memoir Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul as one of the best nonfiction books...

VCFA Writing alumnx and former Associate Director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing Lizzy Fox’s debut poetry collection, Red List Blue,...

Writing alumnx Mary-Kim Arnold (’16) was recently awarded a 2020 Howard Foundation Fellowship and saw the publication of her debut poetry collection, The Fish &...

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