Profile

Liza Nash Taylor finished the MFA program in Creative Writing at VCFA in 2018. She is the author of two historical novels, Etiquette for Runaways (Blackstone Publishing, 2020) and In All Good Faith (Blackstone, 2021). She is the 2016 winner of the Fiction Prize of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference and a 2018 Hawthornden International Fellow. Her novels have been finalists in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and The Tucson Festival of Books and excerpts have appeared in The Copperfield Review and Deep South Magazine. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Bluestem Magazine, Gargoyle, and other literary magazines. She lives in rural Virginia, in an old farmhouse which is a setting in her novels.

Visit her online at lizanashtaylor.com.

Sydney Lea

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Ravi Howard

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2023

Mary Ruefle

Visiting Poet, Summer 2018

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2022

Dewaine Farria

Visiting Alumnx Fiction Writer, Summer 2020

Terese Marie Mailhot

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2019