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Jude Ford, 2016 MFA in Writing

“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...

Kevin McLellan, 1999 MFA in Writing

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...

Amber Rose Crowtree, 2017 MFA in Writing

In 2021, Writing alumnx Amber Rose Crowtree ('17) saw the publication of her debut chapbook, Harboring the Imperfect (Dancing Girl Press), and her...

Lou Mathews, 1987 MFA in Writing

MFA in Writing alumnx Lou Mathews was featured in the Los Angeles Times on December 2, 2021. The article by Alex Norcia describes...

Samuél Lopez-Barrantes, 2020 MFA in Writing

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of living in Paris,” explains writer, musician, and VCFA alumnx Samuél Lopez-Barrantes ('20). Lopez-Barrantes currently lives and...

Shelagh C. Shapiro, 2003 MFA in Writing

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 Lee Gander, 2021 MFA in Writing

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 ...

Lizzy Fox, 2017 MFA in Writing

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

Mary-Kim Arnold, 2016 MFA in Writing

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 &...

Pamela Murray Winters, 2015 MFA in Writing

Pamela Murray Winters was featured on The Poet and the Poem, the long-running radio/podcast program hosted by Maryland poet laureate Grace Cavalieri and sponsored by...