Vermont Studio Center

Rose Bunch is a novelist and essayist from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her work appeared in Tin House, The Greensboro Review and New Letters. Rose Bunch joined us during September 2014. Here she reads from her story "Sustainability".

Toby Alman is a poet from Chicago and author of two poetry chapbooks, Asides (Furniture Press Books) and Life of Richard (Damask Press). He stopped by to read from his versed play that he worked on while at VSC.

Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a collection of essays on music. He is finishing a new novel. He also writes music criticism for Salon and The Rumpus.

Antonya Nelson is the author of seven short story collections, including FUNNY ONCE (Bloomsbury, 2014), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell). Work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of the 2003 R...

Srikanth Reddy grew up in Chicago. He is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, both published by the University of California Press. A scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Reddy earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard Uni...

Poet Zhu Zhu and Tranlator Dong Li were residents in June 2014, part of the Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship program supporting Chinese poets and translators.

DIANA WHITNEY is a writer, yoga instructor, and mother of two in Brattleboro, Vermont. In February 2009, she saw light at the mouth of The Baby Cave and started writing Spilt Milk, an irreverent, advice-free parenting column that was syndicated in several Vermont newspapers.

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts, and three novels: The Subject Steve, Home Land and The Ask. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, N+1, The Quarterly, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of ZOOLOGIES (Milkweed Editions, 2014); Science and Other Poems (LSU Press, 1994), selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets; three additional poetry books, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (LSU, 1997), Genius Loci (Penguin, 2005), and Rope (Penguin, 2009); and three nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands (Mercury House,...

Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has received many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart P...

Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. He is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which in 2009 won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is also the editor of three Harper Perennial philosophy books entitled, Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, an...

Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca and spent his early childhood in France. He lived in Israel from the ages of ten to eighteen, then returned to Paris, where he still lives. He is the author of six novels and eight collections of poems, most recently L’Animal (Flammarion, 2010). He is a translator of contemporary Hebrew fiction and poetry, notably of Yehuda Amichai. He also translates from Ger...

Dawes has published fifteen collections of poetry. His most recent titles include Back of Mount Peace (2009); Hope's Hospice (2009); Wisteria, finalist for the Patterson Memorial Prize; Impossible Flying (2007); and Gomer's Song (2007). Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree, 1994) was the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in the UK. Other poetry collections include Resisting the A...

David Wolf Budbill is an American poet, and playwright. He is the author of eight books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews.

Matt Hart is the author of five books of poems, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N Books, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011), Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), and Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, i...

Simone Muench is the author of five poetry books including the forthcoming Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014). She is a recipient of a 2013 NEA fellowship as well as residency fellowships from Yaddo, Artsmith, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She serves as faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review. Her website is simone@simonemuench.com

Rikki Ducornet is the author of seven novels including The Fan maker's Inquisition, a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and The Jade Cabinet, finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She has received Fellowships from The Lannan Foundation and the Bunting Institute,among others, and in 2004, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her third collection of short fictions will be out thi...

Partridge Boswell read before Visiting Writer Michael Dickman on 3/24. Partridge Boswell’s first book of poems, Some Far Country, received the 2013 Grolier Discovery Award. “Such desperate beauty in these poems,” remarks Marie Howe, “such rendered and willed surviving. Read this book if you want to remember what poetry can do to us, how it can find words for what can’t be said and shake us by our...

Michael Dickman is the author of The End of the West, and Flies, both published by Copper Canyon Press. He co-wrote 50 American Plays, also published by Copper Canyon. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Resident composer and musician Bill Frisell performed at the Red Mill, showcasing new compositions he'd created while at VSC. Born in Baltimore, Bill Frisell played clarinet throughout his childhood in Denver, Colorado. His interest in guitar began with his exposure to pop music on the radio. Soon, the Chicago Blues became a passion through the work of Otis Rush, B.B. King, Paul Butterfield and Bu...

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Her Inferno (A poet's novel) (2010), tells the story of that decision, and was described by John Ashbery as “Zingingly funny and melancholy.” Eileen’s books of poetry include Not Me, School of Fish, Skies, Maxfield Parrish and Sorry,Tree. Chelsea Girls (1994) was her first fiction book, followed by Cool for You, a nonfiction novel (20...

Catherine Despont was a writing resident in January 2014. Here she discusses the frozen Gihon river, and what it means for her writing process.

Howard Norman is the author of three novels including The Museum Guard. His first two novels, The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist, were finalists for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Prize, The New England Bookseller's Association Award, 3 fellowships from the NEA, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His translations of Inuit folktales have earned him two Translatio...

Carolyn Cooke’s Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , and was collected in The Bostons, which won the PEN/Bingham award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway. She teaches in the MFA w...

Anna Coe was a writing resident at the Vermont Studio Center in December 2013. Here, she discusses the role of memory in her writing.