Profile

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and Take My Hand (April 2022). Wench was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction.  In 2013, Dolen wrote the introduction to a special edition of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave, published by Simon & Schuster, which became a New York Times bestseller. Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University in Washington, DC. dolenperkinsvaldez.com »

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Clifford Thompson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF][hybrid]

Yusef Komunyakaa

Visiting Poet, Winter 2022

Sarah Seltzer

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

A. Van Jordan

Visiting Poet and Distinguished VCFA Alumnx in Film

Jerald Walker

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2021