Vermont Studio Center

Francine Conley is a poet and performing artist. She was a VSC resident in 2015 and 2018. Her recorded poem "Joy" was written at VSC in January 2018 and published at https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issue-7-winter-2019. Her first book of poems, What Sweetness from Salt, was published by Finishing Line Press, 2019. For more on her arts: http://francineconley.com/

Sarah Audsley has received support for her work from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio. Recent work appears in Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, Memorious, Scoundrel Time, Tupelo Quarterly, and is forthcoming in New England Review and Pleiades. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson Col...

Tim Mayo was a Vermont Artist Week Fellow in May of 2006, 2008, and 2018. His second volume of poetry, Thesaurus of Separation, (Phoenicia Publishing 2016) was a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal and a finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award. His poem “The Uncapping” was first published in Verse Wisconsin 102. This revised version may be read at https://winningwriters.com/resources/the-un...

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir and three books of poems. HIs new collection of micro essays "Beyond Repair: Living in a Fracture State" is due out from Red Hen Press this fall. He was a resident at VSC way back when dinosaurs roamed the mountains.

Carolyn Kremers writes poetry and literary nonfiction, and teaches part-time at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She was a writing resident at VSC in November 2017. Her books include Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village (memoir), The Alaska Reader (literary anthology), and Upriver (poetry). She was a Fulbright Scholar at Buryat State University in Ulan Ude, Russia, in...

Heidi Reszies was a VSC James Merrill Poetry Fellow in October 2015. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Illusory Borders (published by The Operating System, 2019) and Of Water & Other Soft Constructions (selected by Samiya Bashir as winner of the 2018 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize for Poetry). Of Water & Other Soft Constructions is available for purchase online through Anhinga Press (plea...

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Imperial Liquor (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), Darktown Follies (Tupelo Press, 2013), and Red Summer (Tupelo 2006). A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, his honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, VSC, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. His work has appeared i...

Avia Tadmor was a Vermont Studio Center poetry fellow in June 2018. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and is a Language Lecturer at New York University’s Expository Writing Program.

Genevieve DeGuzman (VSC, James Merrill Poetry Fellow, September 2019) writes stories and poems. Her poetry appears or will appear in Cimarron Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Folio, RHINO, Rust + Moth, phoebe, and elsewhere. “Topsy” was originally published in Glass. Born in the Philippines, raised in California, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she brews kombucha and gazes dreamil...

Ricardo Hernandez is the son of Mexican immigrants. A recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, Poets House, and Poets & Writers, his work has appeared in Muzzle, Witness, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. A semifinalist for the 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest, Ricardo holds an MFA from Rutgers-Newark and lives in Jersey City. "Feedback" was written at Vermont Studio Center when he was a resident...

Nandi Comer is the author of the American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press, May, 2020). She is a Cave Canem fellow as well as a Callaloo fellow. She is a 2019 Kresge Artist Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Muzzle, The Offing, and Southern Indiana Review. She was a resident for the first time in M...

Tessa Micaela is the author of Where Bells Begin (Rescue Press, November 2019) and there are boxes and there is wanting (Trembling Pillow Press 2016). Currently living and working in central Vermont, Tessa practices clinical herbal medicine and generative/reproductive care. Tessa was a VSC Vermont Week resident in April of 2018. You can read the poem below. website: tessamicaela.com IG: turkeyvult...

Benjamin Aleshire received a James Merrill Fellowship to attend VSC in March, 2020. His work has appeared in The Times UK, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Lit Hub, and London Magazine, and he has received support from Bread Loaf, the Vermont Arts Council, and the University of New Orleans. Ben travels the world with a manual typewriter, composing poems for strangers in the street. The first chapter of...

A Cave Canem alum, Richard Hamilton's poems have appeared in The Ringing Ear: Lean South, Cave Canem Anthologies, CONSEQUENCE magazine, and Steel Toe Review. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama and MA in Arts and Philosophy from New York University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Chautauqua Literary Arts Festival and The Vermont Studio Center where he was resident in...

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is a poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder. Her first full-length book, A Wake with Nine Shades, was published by Texas Review Press in 2019. A hybrid text of visual poetry/erasure is forthcoming from TRP in 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Colorado Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest,...

VSC President Emeritus Gary Clark was born and raised in New Haven county, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in English and Drama in 1986, and from the University of Oregon with an MFA in Poetry in 1992. From 1996 to 2014, Gary led the Writers Program at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, where he lives with his wife Laura and their three children. He was a sta...

Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and composes poems both in English and Chinese. A recent graduate from Michener Center for Writers, he is a 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He was a resident in August 2019 and wrote this poem during that time.

Hanae Jonas’s poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Iowa Review, jubilat, West Branch, The Volta, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ox-Bow School of Art, Kundiman, Mineral School, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. She was the VSC/Kundiman Fellow in November 2018. “Ritual...

Los Angeles based painter and poet Kamaria Shepherd (b. 1991 in Houston) has exhibited nationally and internationally at Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, CA; New Release Gallery in New York, New York; Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA; SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition at the Millard Sheets Art Center in Pomona, CA; Black Light at the Otis Graduate Studios in Los Angeles, CA; Palazzetto Cenci at Rhode Isl...

Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist currently teaching in Boise, ID. A December 2019 Poetry Fellow at VSC and an Associate Editor for Poetry Northwest, her recent work appears, or will soon appear, in Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Ninth Letter, The Adroit Journal, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. "I Grow Less Visible" was originally published in Third Coast Magaz...

Khaty Xiong is a poet from Fresno, California. She is the author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015), which holds the distinction of being the first full-length collection of poetry published by a Hmong American woman in the United States. Her work has been featured in Poetry, the New York Times, How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), as well as Academy of American Poe...

Joshua Aiken is a writer based in Connecticut whose poems have been featured in publications such as Assaracus, Forklift, OH, juked, Nepantla, NightBlock, TENDER LOIN, fog machine, and Winter Tangerine Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a winner of the Martin Starkie Prize, and was a May 2018 and July 2019 resident at the Vermont Studio Center. He is currently a JD/PhD student in History and Afric...

Andrea Martin was a resident at VSC in October 2016 and was the Writing Program Coordinator staff artist from 2017-2018. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently living in Iowa City, where she's finishing a Master's in Library & Information Science at the University of Iowa.

Kylie Gellatly is a poet living in Northern Vermont. Her book reviews and interviews have appeared in Adroit Journal, Green Mountains Review, Pleiades, and The Rumpus. She is the Book Reviews Editor and Editorial Assistant for Green Mountains Review. Kylie has been awarded the Factory Hollow Press Scholarship to the Juniper Writing Institute and two Vermont Studio Center fellowships. She was a res...

Carlene Kucharczyk is the current Writing Program Manager at VSC and was the Writing Coordinator staff artist the year before. She was the Henry David Thoreau fellow at VSC in September 2017. “On Beholding the Beloved’s Rotting Body” was originally published in Tupelo Quarterly, and you can read the poem here: http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/on-beholding-the-beloveds-rotting-body/ Thanks for listen...