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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...

Sydney Lea is author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019). A former Vermont Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer finalist, he has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays. His collaborative work with former Delaware Laureate Fleda Brown, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, is now available, and his newer li...

Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Mother's Time and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Her previous works include: Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best A...

Jennifer Elise Foerster earned her PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver and her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Jennifer teaches at the Institute of American I...

Bushra Rehman is a poet, novelist and cultural activist. Her novel Corona, a dark comedy about being Muslim American, was noted by Poets & Writers among the Best Debut Fiction of 2013. Rehman is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She has served as a teaching artist for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Urban Word NYC, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her...

Heid E. Erdrich is author and editor of eight books, including the poetry collection Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media. Heid edited New Poets of Native Nations from Graywolf Press and co-edited Sister Nations, an anthology of Native American women’s writings. Her non-fiction memoir-in-recipes, Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes was a 2014 City Pages Top Foo...

Sue Halpern is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and a long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books. Halpern is the author of seven books, most recently, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library. Her book Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly was made into an Emmy-nominated film. Halpern has written on science, technology and social issues for The N...