Profile

Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the LA Times First Book Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Award; and Weather, which has been shortlisted for the 2020
Women’s Prize.

She teaches at Bard College in upstate New York. Visit her at jennyoffill.com.

Garrett Hongo

Visiting Poet, Summer 2019

Jehanne Dubrow

Distinguished Visiting Alumnx in Creative Nonfiction

Tyehimba Jess

Visiting Poet, Winter 2018

A. Van Jordan

Visiting Poet and Distinguished VCFA Alumnx in Film

Sydney Lea

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Liza Nash Taylor

Visiting Alumnx Fiction Writer, Winter 2022