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.

Mary Ruefle

Visiting Poet, Summer 2018

Patricia Smith

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference; Visiting Poet, Winter 2023

Jerald Walker

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2021

A. Van Jordan

Visiting Poet and Distinguished VCFA Alumnx in Film

Lauren Markham

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Winter 2018

Yusef Komunyakaa

Visiting Poet, Winter 2022