Vermont Studio Center

Jennifer Brody is the award-winning author of “The 13th Continuum,” graphic novels “Spectre Deep 6” and “200,” and the Disney Chills book series, writing as Vera Strange. She’s a graduate of Harvard University and a film and television producer and writer. She began her career in Hollywood on many films, including “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Golden Compass." She lives and writes in Malibu by...

Jonathan Vatner's first novel, Carnegie Hill, debuted in 2019 from Thomas Dunne Books. His second novel, The Bridesmaids Union, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press. He is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Poets & Writers; and many other publications. He has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in cognitive neuro...

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Kenyon Review Online, Santa Monica Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She was the Rona Jaffe fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in June 2019. She has also received fellowships from the Writers Grotto in San Francisco and t...

In January 2020, Gwen enjoyed a blissful month at the Vermont Studio Center, where she worked on a work of creative non-fiction titled The Nine, the true story of nine women who escaped from the Nazis. One of those nine women was her great aunt Helene who first told Gwen her story. The book is scheduled to be published by St. Martin's Press in 2021. Gwen is an award-winning children’s book author...

Linda Dittmar grew up in Israel during its formative years, 1939-1960. Coming to study in the United States, she received her Ph. D from Stanford University and for the next forty years taught literature and film studies at the University of Massachusetts. During that time she also taught at the University of Paris, held two Fulbright grants to India, the latter as Distinguished Chair, and lecture...

Joy Baglio‘s short fiction has appeared in Tin House, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and PANK, among others. She's received fellowships, scholarships, and grants from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writi...

Eva Warrick was a resident in November 2019. Eva grew up near Seattle. She graduated with an MFA in painting. She taught visual art for several years and moved to Amsterdam in 2014, where she began writing. Her fiction has been supported by fellowships from Tin House and Yaddo, has appeared in A Public Space and Granta and is forthcoming in The Southern Review. She is represented by Seren Adams at...

J.C. Hallman is the author of six books and a number of articles that have appeared in a wide array of journals and anthologies. He has been a McKnight fellow in fiction, and a Guggenheim fellow in the general nonfiction category. He was in residence at Vermont Studio Center in Fall 2018. The piece was first published in The Baffler. You can read it here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/lo-trump-eer...

Kosiso Ugwueze was born in Enugu, Nigeria and raised in Southern California. Her short stories are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Subtropics, Cosmonauts Avenue, and the South Carolina Review. She has received residency and fellowship support from Kimbilio, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Vermont Studio Center where she was the Rona Jaffe fellow in February 2020. You can find Kosiso online at kosisougwue...

Charlotte Reber attended VSC's Vermont Week in 2018 and is still in Johnson wrangling computers. She has at least one master's degree in children's literature from Simmons College, drinks far too much coffee, and spends most of her time these days struggling with the family cats for control of her keyboard. This recording is an excerpt from the collaborative efforts of Charlotte and her brother, W...

E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others, which was just released, and the poetry collection A Lesser Love, winner of the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and World Literature Today. Koh is the recipient of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writin...

Bethany Ball’s debut novel What to Do About the Solomons with Grove Atlantic was published in 2017. Judy Blume called it “funny, sexy, and smart” and it was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The novel was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Jewish Book Council’s debut novel prize, and the “The Bridge” Book Award. Ball has been published in The Common, American Literary Rev...

Ian Geronimo is an AAPI writer from Mesa, Arizona, who is currently at work on his first book. He was a resident at Vermont Studio Center in December of 2019.

Diana Fenves is a science fiction writer and playwright living in Raleigh, NC. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and her fiction is represented by the Bent Agency. Her plays have been produced by The Slant of Light Theatre Company and several small festivals. Her work is influenced by her heritage as a Texan and Hungarian Jew. She is inspired by the Hungarian expression “life is h...

Ellen McCulloch-Lovell lives and writes in Montpelier, VT. Her book, Gone, was issued by Janus Press in 2012. She has served as president of Marlboro College, Chief of Staff to Senator Patrick Leahy, and director of the Vermont Arts Council. She was a VT Week resident at the VT Studio Center in 2018 and is the current Interim Executive Director there. "June Pruning" was published in Green Mountain...

Chia-Lun Chang is the author of One Day We Become Whites (ND/SA, 2016). Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, she lives in New York City. VSC: March, 20. IG: chialun.chang

Andrea Blancas Beltran is from El Paso, Texas. She is a 2019 CantoMundo fellow. Her work has recently been selected for publication in Scalawag, About Place Journal, 111O, A Dozen Nothing, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Fog Machine, Gramma, Pilgrimage, and others. Her chapbook profiles was published by Dancing Girl Press in February 2020. Another chapbook Re- was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in Ju...

Wawa is a Hong Kong poet and VSC alumna (Mar 2017 on a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship & Jun 2018 on a Henry Luce Chinese Poetry and Translation Fellowship). She's currently based in Berkeley, CA. More at www.lomeiwa.com

Samuel Hughes is a student in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a Staff-Artist at the Vermont Studio Center 2017-2018, and now lives in Burlington. His insta and twitter handles are both @samhugheslives

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...