Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Uma Krishnaswami's recent book Out of the Way! Out of the Way! was mentioned in the May 11, 2012 New York Times Book Review. 
Congressman Peter Welch will host the 31st annual Congressional Art Competition today at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Founded by former Senator Jim Jeffords in 1981, the competition is a unique forum for Vermont's high school artists to showcase their talent and abilities. The winning piece of artwork from Vermont will hang in the U.S. Capitol for a year.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Carol Bachofner was named the second Rockland Poet Laureate at the start of the annual event's Poetry Swarm evening April 26 at Rockland [Maine] Public Library. Bachofner takes the role of Rockland Poet Laureate over following a two-year term by Kendall A. Merriam, the post's inaugural honoree.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing current student Lee Thomas's latest book has been nominated for three major literary honors. Titled The German, the novel was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and was named one of the Best Books of 2011 by The Advocate magazine. The winner of the Bram Stoker award is determined on March 31, 2012.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Sybil Baker's third book, titled Into This World, will be released by Engine Books in May 2012.
G. Roy Levin (1930-2003): A Retrospective will be on exhibition in the College Hall Art Gallery at Vermont College of Fine Arts from March 20-31, noon to 4:00 pm.
Two of Leslie Ullman's poems -- "The Story I Need" and "Consider Desire" -- have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Pushcart Board of Contributing Editors. Both poems were originally featured in 
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Neela Vaswani just released a new middle-grade novel. The book, titled Same Sun Here, was co-authored with Silas House and was released by Candlewick Press on February 14, 2012.
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One of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Douglas Glover's essays from his new book, Attack of the Copula Spiders, is quoted in The New Yorker online book blog.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Judith Gold Stitzel has released a new book titled Field Notes from Grief. The book represents a collaboration of author Judith Gold Stitzel and artist Claudia Giannini, based on the journals Judith kept during the year after her husband died.
Graphic Designers, take notice! The VCFA Class of 2013 Graphic Design blog is up and running. Here you can find design related thoughts and comments from our currently enrolled MFA students as well as faculty and other enthusiasts! Tune in 
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), a national center for graduate education in the fine arts, announced today that Matthew Monk, Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), has been named Academic Dean beginning July 1, 2012. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Rick Wallenda (head of the famous circus family, The Flying Wallendas) has a new article in Circus Girl Magazine titled 
The January installment of the “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series comes from HM's Editor, Miciah Bay Gault. Read her short essay, "My Love Affair with Slush," 
VCFA thanks Jimmy Pulsifer, who for 30 years has been with the College’s facilities department as a constant, kind, and hard-working stalwart. He has always had a smile and kind word for staff, students, and faculty alike, and his knowledge of the College and its history is priceless.
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Congratulations to Timothy Lee Miller, current student in the MFA in Music Composition program!
Day one. Monday, the second day of this new year. Our adventure began in cities and towns across the United States—Montpelier, Little Rock, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, to name a few—and there’s even one of us all the way from Australia. Some of us were already here in Puerto Rico, but most began cozied in their own bed this morning.
Seven degrees with a wind chill of minus twelve. A few inches of snow covered the paths as new Writing students made their way from Dewey to College Hall. The sound of heavy winter boots trudged up to the fourth floor, while students milled in the warmth and cheer of the bookstore, drinking coffee, browsing. 3:00 Orientation in the Chapel. Winter 2012 MFA in Writing Residency has begun.......
Vermont College of Fine Arts alumnus Christopher Soden has a new poetry Collection. The book, titled Closer, was released this year from Queer Mojo (A Rebel Satori Imprint). 
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ermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Kathryn Kay's debut novel, The Gilder, is being released on December 27, 2011 from Kensington Books. Kathyrn is also the founder of the 
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Finally, that familiar nip in the air and a holiday spring in our steps. In conjunction with The Vermont College Alumni Association, VCFA cordially invites you to Illumination Night, December 2, from 5:30-7:30 pm.
It was summer. The campus lit up with the hazy greenery of a hot July day. Students and faculty engaged in workshop. Focused. Challenging each other. And then it hit: We write creative nonfiction, but what defines it? What are its boundaries and its limits, if any?
Winter approaches Montpelier. Snow flurries before dawn, the sky a gritty slate blue. The last brittle oak leaves on dark unbending branches. But there on the empty fountain sits an enormous fir. Waiting to light the days that grow so short.
Like to see your holiday purchases do a little good in the world? Look no further than the 
VCFA's own Syd Lea was named Vermont's poet laureate last Friday in a ceremony at the Vermont State House. Louise Crowley was there and reports, "each of his 5 children read some of his poems at the ceremony on Friday night; it was truly lovely! " 
In honor of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Lauren Myracle and her indomitable grace under pressure, the VCFA Campus Store is giving out five copies of her award-worthy young adult novel, Shine.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna and Hunger Mountain "Writing Life" editor Claire Guyton was one of four Maine artists to receive a 2012 Artists’ Fellowship Awards from 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Shawn Fawson has won the 2010 Utah Book Award in the category of Poetry. She won for her poetry collection titled 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus Lee Busby has a new poetry collection forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Titled Wild Strawberries, it is now available for presale.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus Ben Westlie's first poetry collection has been released for pre-orders. Titled Sometimes Out of Turn, it is being published by Finishing Line Press.
Sydney Lea as Vermont’s next Poet Laureate. Syd Lea has had a long association with Vermont College of Fine Arts, first as a member of the MFA in Writing Program faculty from 1989-2002 and then as a founding member of the VCFA Board of Trustees.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty members Uma Krishnaswami and Rita Williams-Garcia will be speaking as part of this year's Library of Congress National Book Festival. The event takes place in Washington, DC.
rmont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Susan Spencer Smith has released a new novel. Titled Depth-of-Field, about " a woman trying to find her voice as an artist and a female in the social shifts precipitated by the second wave of feminism." 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna and New York Times Bestselling Author Carrie Jones just released a new novel that she co-wrote with Steven E. Wedel. After Obsession tells the story of 
rmont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program alumna Marianna Baer's first novel released today. Titled Frost, it is a young adult, supernatural thriller published by Balzer & Bray. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Alan Cumyn, announced the release of his latest young adult novel, Tilt. Of the book Alan says "It's a funny, sexy story about a teenaged boy's obsessions as he lives through an impossibly absurd time of life." The Junior Library Guild in the U.S.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus Walter E. Butts has just released a new collection of poetry. The book, titled Radio Time, was published by Wordtech, under their Cherry Grove Collections imprint. Walter is the 
Vermont College of Fine Arts Trustee and MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program alumna Tami Lewis Brown just released a new middle-grade novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. titled The Map of Me.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Renee Couture has been awarded a 2011 Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. This award will support the costs of the video elements of her multi-media installation, “Shadow Effects,”professional documentation and printing.
MFA in Writing alumna Shirley Nestler (1994) just published One Infantryman’s Journey. A story of and co-authored by her cousin Walter Mahlon Zweizig, the book recounts his experiences in the United States Army during the Korean War.
ermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Leda Schubert's latest book was just released from Holiday House. Reading to Peanut is a picture book about a young girl named Lucy who wants to learn to read and write.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Allison Hedge Coke was awarded a 2011 a Lannan Foundation Fellowship Residency. The Lannan Residency Fellowship provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists, scholars, curators, as well as indigenous, environmental and social justice activists. Residency durations are usually from one to two months.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Jan Groft has won bronze in the category of Body, Mind and Spirit in ForeWord Review's 2010 Book of the Year Awards. She won for her non-fiction book, As We Grieve: Discoveries of Grace in Sorrow. 
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty members have won Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature.
a 2011 Fellowship in Environmental Journalism from Middlebury College. As part of this work Lauren will be spending the year researching the plight of climate migrants in East Africa and examining the prospects of international protection for communities forced out of their homes at the hands of a changing landscape.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program alumna Maha Addasi has received an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Awards in the category of Children/Young Adult Books.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Richard Jackson has won the 2011 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry. He won for his poetry collection titled Resonance, published by Ashland Poetry Press.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus Richard Hartshorn is the 2011 recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art Program alumna Barbara Sullivan has been awarded her second Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant. The Individual Support Grant from the Gottlieb Foundation is awarded in recognition of the quality of an artist’s work, with much importance given to the artist’s dedication to that work over a period of many years.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Rigoberto González has won the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award awarded by the 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Jandy Nelson's young adult book The Sky is Everywhere was named a 2011 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year in the category of Teen Lit.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus David Galligan has just been named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the 
ont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Jane Kurtz has won the 2011 Kerlan Award. The Kerlan Award is presented annually by the The University of Minnesota Libraries “in recognition of singular attainments in the creation of children’s literature.” She will receive the award in a ceremony on April 2, 2011.
It has just been announced that Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Mary Ruefle has won the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the PSA, the award is given for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumnus Philip Tate has won first prize in the 6th Annual Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest, 2011. He won for his short story titled "Dam" which appears in the publication's latest issue, 37.2.
lege of Fine Arts will host a Contra Dance on February 12, from 7:30 -11:00pm, at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Gymnasium, located on corner of East State and College Street.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Robin Behn has a new book of poems out titled The Yellow House. It is published by Small Press Distribution (SPD) and is available in the VCFA bookstore. In addition, it will be on the SPD table at the annual Association for Writers and Writers Programs (AWP) conference in Washington DC next week.
nt College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnus Trent Reedy is the subject of an article in today's Los Angeles Times. The piece is about his new novel, Words in the Dust and the girl and story that inspired it. 
rmont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Ann Angel has won the 2011 American Library Association's YALSA Award (Young Adult Library Services Association) for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults. The award was given for her biography of Janis Joplin, titled Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing published by Amulet Abrams.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Evan Fallenberg (2001) has been appointed director of fiction for the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University of Israel, effective Fall 2011. He recently won an award from the Times Literary Supplement of London for his translation of Ron Leshem’s Beaufort. His new novel, When We Danced on Water, will be published by HarperCollin
alumni and faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program.
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Marsha Koretzky. Her essay, a tribute to writer Kurt Vonnegut, is titled "
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Patricia Spears Jones has just released her third poetry collection. The book, titled Pain Killers, was released from Tia Chucha Press.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Krisanne Baker's film, Upstream to Downstream, won the Experimental Audience Award in this year's New England Film Festival. This experimental documentary short "examines the systems of our culture, of which we are all participants; we dump unfathomable amounts of pollutants and DNA altering chemicals into our streams and rivers which eventually end in
It was just announced that a novel from Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program faculty member Rita Williams Garcia is once again a finalist for this year's 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adult alumna and member of VCFA's Board of Trustees Tami Lewis Brown announced the release of her new children's book, Soar, Elinor! The book features illustrations by François Roca and was released from Farrar Straus Giroux.
It was announced today that Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Jandy Nelson's latest novel, The Sky is Everywhere, has been shortlisted for a Silver Inky Award, Australia's biggest award for young adult literature. The Silver Inky is specifically for international books.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Julie Berry had a new novel released today. Secondhand Charm was released from Blooomsbury USA and follows her first novel, The Amaranth Enchantment.
The book Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Nadine L. Sarreal co-wrote with four other Filipina writers, is due to be released in the U.S. soon. Angelica's Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel, was authored by Nadine, Cecilia Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, and Veronica Montes and was released by Anvil at this year’s Manila International Book Fair.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna LeAnne Howe, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, will receive the Tulsa Library Trust’s “American Indian Author Award." Howe writes fiction, poetry, screenplays and plays dealing with American Indian experiences. Her works have been translated in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. Currently, Howe is Professor of American Ind
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Nancy Jensen's first novel, The Sisters, will be published by St. Martin's Press as a lead title for 2011. The estimated release date is September 2011. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Kathie Giorgio's novel titled The Home for Wayward Clocks is being released in December 2010 from Main Street Rag Publishing. An established short story writer (her work has appeared in major journals and anthologies) this is her first novel. Kathie is the director and founder of All Writers' Workplace & Workshop.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Faculty Chair Xu Xi has a new novel titled Habits of a Foreign Sky releasing in October, 2010 from Haven Books. The novel's main character is a mixed-race, single mother who buries her mother and young son in less than two years. All she has left is a hard-won career at a global investment bank.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Nancy Fitzpatrick has received the 2010 Authors on Eighth Award from the Klondike Visitors Association for her prose piece, "A Great River Voyage," written in celebration of Dawson City, and the Klondike and Yukon Rivers, during a recent trip to Alaska and Canada.('05) 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Lyn Chamberlin has a new nonfiction piece coming out in the next issue of 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Visiting Faculty Connie May Fowler: has a short story titled "Do Not Enter the Memory" in 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Eve Rifkah announces the release of two books. A poetry collection titled Outcasts The Penikese Island Leper Hospital 1905- 1921 (Little Pear Press, 2010) that documents a little known leprasarium off the coast of Cape Cod. She has also released a novel in verse titled Dear Suzanne, (Turning Point Press, 2010) on the life and times of Suzanne Valadon 1865
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Emilie Bilman's doctoral thesis has been published as a book by Lambert Academic Publishing. The work is titled The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of TS Eliot and Paul Valéry. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Brad Davis had poems appear recently in Chautauqua and Anglican Theological Review. His new manuscript was a finalist for the White Eagle chapbook competition. Davis has been hired as a lecturer in creative writing at Eastern Connecticut State University beginning fall 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Elena Harap is a contributor and editor to a new anthology of poetry and short prose titled The Bones We Carry, a collection of work by a multicultural Boston-based group of writer-performers. Included are Elena's essay "Night Room" and several poems.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Richard Bentley's story titled "Two Birds One Stone"? has been accepted for publication by Alaska Quarterly Review as well as by two online magazines: Slow Trains & Battered Suitcase.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Nicholas Benson has translations of poems by Aldo Palazzeschi in 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Jane Waggoner Deschner's work will be the subject of a feature article in the upcoming September/October issue of Fiberarts Magazine. The issue hits the stands around August 1st.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Paula Yup's poem “Out of the Corner of Her Eye” saw publication in Off the Coast. She also has poems forthcoming in Street Review, Muse and Stone, and in California Quarterly. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Joan Leegant announces the release of her novel titled Wherever You Go. The novel is published by W.W. Norton.
The Huffington Post has just published an interview with Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program faculty member Kathi Appelt. In it Kathi discusses the subject of American Fantasy.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Sundee Frazier has just released her second middle grade novel, titled The Other Half of My Heart.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Lyn Chamberlin has a lyric essay, "Somewhere in the North Atlantic," coming out in the September issue of The Potomac Review.
Exciting news from HungerMountain. The winners of the first Hunger Mountain Young Writers’ Prize have just been announced. The prize, judged by National Book Award winner M.T.
ermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Asia Freeman's work was 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Jessica Leader was featured this past weekend in an article in the Kentucky Courier-Journal about her new novel, Nice and Mean.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Julia Morgan-Leamon interviews artist and former VCFA faculty member Mike Glier about his recent trip along the 70th longitudinal line. The podcast is called Color of Place and the question she asks is "How would one describe the geometry of the earth en plein aire?" Artist Mike Glier recounts positioning himself at various points along a line of longitude with easel and paints.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Philip Graham's book, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon is going to be translated into Portuguese and released from Editorial Presença in April 2011.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Robin Oliviera's first novel, My Name is Mary Sutter, has made Oprah's O Magazine's "What to Read Next: our 26 Favorite Books of the Summer" list. The announcement is in the July 2010 issue which is on newstands now.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Iris Gomez's debut novel, Try to Remember, was just released from Grand Central Publishing. The novel tells the tale of "a Colombian teenager struggling to forge her own identity in the changing cultural landscape of 1970s Miami, while keeping her increasingly volatile, mentally ill father out of legal trouble."
Vermont College of Fine Arts alumnus René Colato Laínez recieved an honorable mention from the 2010 International Latino Book Award for his bilingual picture book Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene Tiene Dos Apellidos. The awards, given by 
Congratulations to Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Jim McGarrah whose book, A Temporary Sort of Peace: A Memoir of Vietnam, has won the Legacy Nonfiction Prize for 2010 from the 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Lauren Myracle has a new book being released on May 4th. The novel, titled Thirteen Plus One, is the latest in a series of middle grade novels that follow the life of the same character, Winnie Perry.
The Lifetime Movie based on Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sue William Silverman's memoir Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction, is now available online in its entirety. The film, starring Sally Pressman (from "Army Wives") can be viewed on My Lifetime, 
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The Summer 2010 issue of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature is now available. The journal is edited by Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sascha Feinstein and this particular issue includes an interview with and poetry by our own Betsy Sholl.
The Vermont College of Fine Arts Online Store is now open! Please 
Schubert, has announced signings for her new picture book, Feeding the Sheep. They are scheduled in various places in New England throughout 2010:
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Jane Camens is the overall winner of the 2009/10 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. Her story, "A Matter of Luck" was chosen by judge Ronan Bennett and was among 1,800 total entries. Fish is an idependent publishing company based out of County Cork, Ireland. This short story prize has had honorary patrons such as Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy and Frank McCourt.
In this week's 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Maria Driscoll McMahon is the lead story in today's Pennsylvania Morning Times. The article talks about "The Burdocks Project," her written word and performance art project that she hopes demonstrates that there is much more to the Town of Barton, PA and its people beyond the rural stereotypes.
Writer John Warner interviews Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Philip Graham in the current issue of The Morning News.com. Warner talks to the author (who is also his former professor) about "finding topics, developing mentors, and reaching readers."
Carnegie Online, the online publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is running a feature story on Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Madelyn Roehrig and her ongoing art project, Figments: Conversations with Andy, in which the artist-educator is documenting who visits the late artist Andy Warhol’s grave.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Cynthia Leitich Smith's novel Eternal is on this week's 
Two Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Alumna have work in the new anthology Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum. The book includes alumna Maggie Kast's piece called "No Pity," and a Carolyn Walker essay titled "Evolution of a Fairy."
Vermont College of Fine Arts Board of Trustees member and new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Katherine Paterson is featured in several articles (as well as appearing on the cover) in the current March/April 2010 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, the publication for children's and young adult literature.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Pamela Gemin has a new book of poetry published by The University of Arkansas Press. The book, Another Creature, was a finalist in this year's Inaugural Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.
VCFA MFA in Writing alumnus Josh Wilker has a memoir titled Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards coming out from Seven Footer Press in April 2010.
Meg Wiviott, a current student in Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, announces the release of her picture titled Benno and th
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnus René Colato Laínez announced the release of his new picture book titled My Shoes and I. It tells the story of a young boy who is leaving his home in El Salvador for a new one in the United States. This work is illustrated by Fabricio Vanden Broeck and was published by Boyds Mill Press.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing For Children & Young Adults alumna Zu Vincent recently released a new young adult book entitled Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia as part of the Wicked History Series from Franklin Watts.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art faculty member and UCLA faculty lecturer on Contemporary Art History Miwon Kwon talks to Los Angeles based artist, writer and fellow VCFA Faculty Member Michael Minelli about his current studio practice and recent show at WPA Gallery.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Ricki Thompson's first novel is due out this month. City of Cannibals, a historical fiction novel for young adults, will be released from Boyds Mill Press on February 1, 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Rita Williams-Garcia's new book, One Crazy Summer, was a New York Times Editor's Choice book this week. The reviewer called the young adult novel a "a powerful and affecting story of sisterhood and motherhood."
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program has received incredible news from two of its alumnae this weekend.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member, Uma Krishnaswami will see her picture book, Chachaji's Cup, brought to life this month in New York and California.
It was just announced today that VCFA MFA in Writing For Children & Young Adults alumna Kekla Magoon has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens. The results will be broadcast on Fox Television on February 26, 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Board of Trustees member and renowed children's writer Katherine Paterson was appointed the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in a ceremony at the Library of Congress this morning.
As of this week visitors to campus can enjoy our new ice skating rink located on the Vermont College of Fine Arts green.
Vermont Public Radio interviews Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program director Louise Crowley about the largest incoming group of writing students since the program's inception, 28 years ago.
A new exhibition at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, located in New Canaan, CT, features the work of two alumnae of VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program.
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VCFA MFA in Writing alumna Marni Jameson has a new book coming out from Decapo Books. It's entitled House of Havoc and will be released on February 1, 2010.
VCFA MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Debby Dahl Edwardson's book 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sascha Feinstein’s The Jazz Fiction Anthology, edited by Sascha and David Rife, has just been published by Indiana University Press. The anthology includes stories by 29 writers, including James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Michelle Cliff, Julio Cortazar, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, and VCFA's own Xu Xi.
Riki Moss, VCFA visual art graduate 1994, has been invited to participate in an international exhibition in Nagoya, Japan, celebrating the year 2010 as the year of biodiversity. She will be sharing an installation space of 1200 square feet with three other Vermont artists and participating in workshops and panel discussions for 10 days in Nagoya.
VCFA MFA in Writing faculty member Domenic Stansberry's novel, The Ancient Rain--the third book in his quartet of San Francisco crime novels---was named as a finalist for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Crime Novel. 
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller just wrote a 
Jan Groft (MFA Writing '92) will have a new book, AS WE GRIEVE: DISCOVERIES OF GRACE IN SORROW, released January 1, 2010, by Graham House Books.
Don't miss the article in 
Responsibility" (which was published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 2008 and was based on a lecture given at Vermont College of Fine Arts), as the introduction to the volume.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art faculty member Humberto Ramirez will open a curatorial project November 13th at The Chinese American Arts Council in New York City. 
It was announced today that Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Tim Wynne Jones' novel The Uninvited is a finalist for Canada's prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Children's Literature.
Vermont College of Fine Arts' own MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Rita Williams Garcia's book Jumped was named a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature today. Click 
Congratulations to MFA in Writing alumnus James Pounds whose short story "Two Shoes" just won first place in the Houston Writers' Guild 2009 Writing Contest in short story.
The Heard Museum in Phoenix 
"Figments: Conversations with Andy Warhol" is Alumna Madelyn Roehrig's ongoing project in which visitors to Warhol's grave site are encouraged to ask questions and leave comments. Roehrig's final installation at VCFA centered on this project. Read more about Roehrig's work in the 
(Although that walk might end up being on a high wire…literally!) We have so many fascinating alumni/ae at VCFA and we are proud to include among them Rick Wallenda, a writer and member of the World Famous Wallendas.
Dawn E. Langley, a 1996 
Liz Gallagher, MFA WC&YA (01/06) graduate, worked on the book, The Opposite of Invisible, all four semesters at Vermont from 2004-2006, with Lisa Jahn-Clough, Ron Koertge, MT Anderson, and Cynthia Leitich-Smith. Liz states, "honestly, this book would not exist without Vermont." This book was published in January 2008 by Wendy Lamb Books (Random House), as part of a two-book deal -- the second one is in the works!
Many of the poems in Norbert's first book, Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, 1999) were written or begun during the time he was earning his MFA at Vermont College. Norbert worked successively with Lyn Emmanuel, Syd Leay, Jonathan Holden, and David Wojahn.
Pam Lewis's book, Speak Softly, She Can Hear, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. Some of the material in the book came from stories that she worked on with Gladys Swan while she was an MFA student in 1981.
Patricia Spear Jones's book, The Weather that Kills, grew out of her MFA thesis. Several of the poems, most notably "The Usual Suspect", "Joss Sticks", and "The Birth of the Rhythm and Blues" were developed under the guidance of Lynda Hull, Mark Doty and David Rivard. Rivard's sharp eye really helped her arrange the collection.
MFA Writing Alumnus
“My time at Vermont College has been more than gratifying. It has been the most memorable experience of my lifetime and I will always count it as one of those major milestones. My life has literally been changed because of this program and it is difficult to express my gratitude sufficiently. I have made lifelong friends in the program, both among faculty and students, and it was a privilege to have passed this way. Whatever success I might encounter in the future will be directly attributable to what I've learned during my stay there.”