Writing Alumnx Virtual Reading Series
The virtual Writing Alumnx Reading Series continues with biweekly events on Thursday evenings this spring.
MFA in Writing Archive
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Shelagh C. Shapiro, 2003 MFA in Writing
Writing alumnx Shelagh Shapiro ('03) has been engaged in conversations about craft on the air and on the page for decades. Shapiro is the host…
Shanta Lee Gander, 2021 MFA in Writing
Shanta participated in an e-interview with us in November of 2020. Below are edited excerpts from our conversations about coming to writing, her Vermont Arts…
Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There (Knopf), was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the paper’s 10 Best Books of the…
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize,…
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four volumes of poetry: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 Eric…
Laurie Jean
The Root online magazine listed Laurie Jean’s memoir Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul as one of the best nonfiction books by Black authors in…
Lizzy Fox, 2017 MFA in Writing
VCFA Writing alumnx and former Associate Director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing Lizzy Fox’s debut poetry collection, Red List Blue, will be hitting…
Mary-Kim Arnold, 2016 MFA in Writing
Writing alumnx Mary-Kim Arnold (’16) was recently awarded a 2020 Howard Foundation Fellowship and saw the publication of her debut poetry collection, The Fish &…
VCFA Friendsgiving, November 19
In this season of giving thanks and celebrating connections, we are grateful to everyone in the VCFA community.