Announcing VCFA’s 2025 Summer-Fall Faculty Roster

The 2025 VCFA summer-fall semester will host new and returning faculty across programs. Our VCFA faculty are entrepreneurs, business owners, activists, Lambda Award winners, National Book Award nominees, Critics Choice Award nominees, working and touring artists, and more. The 2025 summer-fall faculty will be paired with current students at residency and will mentor their advising cohort for the next six months.

Click the links below to learn more about our celebrated faculty, and keep up with VCFA’s social media June 24 to July 2, 2025 for highlights of our upcoming 2025 summer residency.

	Marya Cohn (Faculty Chair) Damon Davis Daphne McWiliams		Tomás Gómez Bustillo Emilie Upczak Ekwa Msangi (Visiting Faculty)
	James Chae (Faculty Chair) Silas Munro Natalia Ilyin		Ramón Tejada (Visiting Faculty) Lorena Howard-Sheridan David Peacock
	Rick Baitz Don DiNicola Michael Early Carla Kihlstedt (Faculty Co-Chair) John Mallia		Lisa Mezzacappa Roger Zahab (Faculty Co-Chair) Trudy Chan (Residency Faculty) Rob Frankenberry (Residency Faculty) Frank J. Oteri (Residency Faculty)
	Mario Ontiveros (Visiting Faculty) Damali Abrams		Humberto Ramirez Kate McQuillen
	edwin bodney C.L. Clark Caleb Curtiss Miciah Bay Gault Chachi Hauser Richard Jackson Ellen Lesser Bret Lott		Robin MacArthur Patrick Madden Clint McCown  Adam McOmber (Faculty Co-Chair) Wanjikū wa Ngūgī Sue William Silverman (Faculty Co-Chair) Clifford Thompson
	An Na Loree Griffin Burns Sheela Chari Evan Griffith Louise Hawes (Katherine Paterson Chair) Corey Ann Haydu Veera Hiranandani		Erica S. Perl Mary Quattlebaum Anica Mrose Rissi Alex Sanchez Laura Shovan Linda Urban (Faculty Chair) Will Alexander (Faculty Emerita)