Vermont Studio Center

Brian Kiteley has published three novels, The River Gods, I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing, and Still Life with Insects. He has also written two books of fiction exercises, The 3 A.M. Epiphany and The 4 A.M. Breakthrough. Kiteley has received Guggenheim, Whiting, and NEA fellowships, and had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay, Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He i...

Rick Moody is the author of four novels (GARDEN STATE, THE ICE STORM, PURPLE AMERICA, and THE DIVINERS), three collections of stories, and a memoir (THE BLACK VEIL). He's at work on a new novel and a collection of essays on music.

Waldman has written more than 40 books, including the legendary Fast Speaking Woman, the innovative Marriage: A Sentence; and the meditative Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble. Her most recent is Manatee Humanity (2009), a hybrid-poem that explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore and encounters, dreams, evolutionary biology, neuroscience,...

Tim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including, Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, and Buffalo Head Solos. He was the poet-in-residence at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania for the spring semester of 2010. Most recently, his poems were featured in the Cortland Review and Ploughshares. His work was also published in the newly released anthologies, Black Nature and Seriously Funny. His ne...

On May 27, 1941, Simon J. Ortiz was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended Fort Lewis College and the University of New Mexico for undergraduate studies. He received his MFA as an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa's Writer's School in 1969. His books of poetry include: Telling and Showing Her: The Earth, The Land (Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1995); After and Before the...

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Kafka Prize. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the graduate writing program at Otis College of Art and Design (in Los Angeles).

Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph. D. in folklore. His first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, was published in 1981 and went on to receive the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second coll...

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of twenty-three novels, collections of short stories, and non-fiction works. Delbanco's work has received numerous awards and honors including an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a professor in the department of language and literature at Bennington College from 1966-85 and is currently the Robert Frost Distinguished University Pro...

Natasha Trethewey is author of Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for...

Marilyn Hacker is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including ESSAYS ON DEPARTURE (Carcanet, 2006), DESESPERANTO, (Norton, 2003) and WINTER NUMBERS which received the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. NAMES will be published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2009. She has also published ten collections of translations from the French, including Marie Etienne's KING OF A...

Jody Gladding's Rooms and Their Airs was published by Milkweed Editions (2009). Her collection Stone Crop appeared in the Yale Younger Poets Series, and recent poems have appeared in Poetry, ecopoetics, and Orion, among other journals. She also translates French and has produced some 20 translations for Archipelago Books, Columbia Univ. Press, Princeton Univ. Press, and other publishers. Gladding...

Jane Hirshfield is the author six poetry collections, most recently After (HarperCollins), named a best book of 2006 by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's Financial Times. Other honors include major fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Her seventh poetry collection will be publi...

Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Speak Low (FSG, 2009) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named a Chancellor in 2006. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Carol Moldaw is the author of four books of poetry including Through the Window (La Almeda Press, 2001), Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken From the River. Her work has appeared widely in such places as Paris Review, Conjunctions, Partisan Review, The Three Penny Review, Triquarterly, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. She has taught at New York University, Boston University and the Naropa Institut...

Antonya Nelson is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of four other short story collections, including Some Fun (Scribner's 2006), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell). She lives in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado.

Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia. His first college degree was in geology, and earth science continues to inform his writing. His book A Faithful Existence is a lyrical exploration of what it might mean to be faithful-in acts of translation, scientific and spiritual inquiry, friendship, and poetry. His new book Eye Against Eye takes place as five long poe...

Donald Revell is a Professor of English at the University of Utah. Twice the winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been granted fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of Denve...

Alan Cheuse is the author of the novels The Bohemians (1982), The Grandmother's Club (1986), The Light Possessed (1990), and To Catch the Lightning (2008) plus three collections of short fiction, Candace and Other Stories (1980), The Tennessee Waltz (1991), and Lost and Old Rivers (1998), and a pair of novellas The Fires (2007), as well as the nonfiction work Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographica...

Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945, a largely Polish city that became a part of the Soviet Ukraine shortly after his birth. A major figure of the Polish New Wave literary movement of the early 1970s and of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement of the 1980s, Zagajewski is today one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Polish poets in Europe and the United States. Zagajewsk...