Lyn Miller-Lachmann, 2012 MFA in WCYA
VCFA alumnx Lyn Miller-Lachmann (WCYA ‘12) was awarded the distinguished Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature in the spring of 2023 for...
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Jen Lynn Bailey, 2013 MFA Writing for Children & Young Adults
In early 2023, VCFA interviewed 2013 WCYA graduate Jen Lynn Bailey, author of the picture book This is the Boat that Ben Built (Pajama Press...
Laura Obuobi, 2021 MFA in WCYA
In the fall of 2022, we spoke with author and alumnx Laura Obuobi (WCYA ‘21) about her 2022 picture book publication Black Gold, her upcoming...
Jane Houng & Heather Demetrios, 2014 MFA in WCYA
Years after graduating from the WCYA program in 2014, Jane Houng and Heather Demetrios are still finding ways to collaborate and use their collective voices...
Sandra Nickel, 2012 MFA in WCYA
Only a few months into 2021, Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnx Sandra Nickel has already received numerous accolades for her recent nonfiction picture...
Lori Steel, 2012 MFA in WCYA
Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnx and literary agent Lori Steel has had a long career in all aspects of books—a career that eventually...
Matt Crabb, 2021 MFA in WCYA
Matt participated in an e-interview with us in November of 2020. Below are edited excerpts from our conversations about writing, creating art for young audiences,...
Dana Walrath, 2010 MFA in WCYA
VCFA alumnx Dana Walrath has received a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council to support the opera adaptation of her 2016 graphic...
Bonnie Pipkin, 2014 MFA in WCYA
“Troubled.” That’s seventeen-year-old Genesis according to her small New Jersey town. She finds refuge and stability in her relationship with her boyfriend, Peter—until he ...
Kate Hosford, 2011 MFA in WCYA
Running Press published Kate Hosford's A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems About Sleeping Animals in November 2019, with illustrations by Jennifer Potter.