Shruthi Manjula Balakrishna, 2019 MFA in Graphic Design
Shruthi Manjula Balakrishna, a fall 2019 graduate of the MFA in Graphic Design program, sat down with a VCFA staff member last year to discuss…
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Our students and alumnx inspire us every day with their exhibitions, publications, screenings, performances, and teaching, bringing the magic of VCFA out into the world.
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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…
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.
Dewaine Farria, 2019 MFA in Writing
Tobias Wolff selected Dewaine Farria's novel as the winner of the 2019 Veterans Writing Award from Syracuse University Press.
Julie Berry, 2009 MFA in WCYA
In 2019 alone, Printz Honor recipient Julie Berry released three picture books and a YA novel.
Nate Trier, 2015 MFA in Music Composition
Nate Trier released Palehound in a Sea of Color, a new album of electroacoustic music for piano and accordion, in October 2019.
Eric Pinder, 2011 MFA in WCYA
Eric Pinder's book The Perfect Pillow, published by Disney-Hyperion, received the 2019 New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children's Literature.
Donna Bowman Bratton, 2017 MFA in WCYA
Donna Bowman Bratton's picture book, King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara, was published by Peachtree on October 1, 2019.
Tami Brown & Debbie Dunn, 2006 MFA in WCYA
Classmates Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn's INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED: How a Team of Women Coded the Future was published by Disney/Hyperion on October…
Catherine Linka, 2006 MFA in WCYA
Linka's YA thriller, What I Want You to See, about an art student so desperate to hold onto her scholarship that she becomes a pawn…