Vermont Studio Center

Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001)—a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Poetry Prize. Bök is one of the earliest founders of Conceptualism (the poetic school of avant-garde writing made famous, in part, by the activities of Kenneth Goldsmith). Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’...

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 can be found in Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, Memorious, Scoundrel Time, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and serves as the Staff Ar...

Robert Lopez is the author of three novels, Part of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River--named one of 25 important books of the decade by HTML Giant--and All Back Full; and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Solstice Low-Res MFA Program at Pine Manor College. Visit him at www.robertlopez.net.

Akiko Busch is the author of Geography of Home, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Nine Ways to Cross a River, and The Incidental Steward. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for twenty years, and her essays about design, culture, and nature have appeared in numerous national magazines, newspapers, and exhibition catalogues. She has taught at the University of Hartford and Benni...

Juliana Spahr's most recent book of poems is That Winter the Wolf Came (Commune Editions, 2015). In addition to many volumes of poetry, she has written criticism and edited several poetry anthologies and collections of essays. Her Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in fall 2018. Spahr is on the English faculty at Mills College...

D. A. Powell's books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012). A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, Powell has taught at Columbia, Stanford, University of Iowa, Davidson College and University of San Francisco. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Book Critics Ci...

Noy Holland is the recipient of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short story “Tally” was included in Best American Short Stories, and read by Suzzy Roche at Symphony Space in New York City. Her books include I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like, New and Selected Stories; the novel Bird; and three collections of short fiction and novella...

Ralph Angel’s latest collection, Your Moon, was awarded the Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 received the PEN USA Poetry Award, and his Neither World won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. In addition to five books of poetry, he also has published an award-winning translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo...

Rosa Alcalá has published three books of poetry, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE, and two edited collections, Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, and Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems, which also include her translations. A runner-up for a PEN Translation Award, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Fundación Valparaiso....

Krista is usually on the other side of the microphone, but here she's the one answering questions. If you're curious about podcasting, or guests or themes of On Being, or Krista's thoughts on life and writing, listen in. She also shares a bit about her book in process. She's published two New York Times bestselling books: Einstein's God and Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Liv...

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen (2015) was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015. It has been translated into 26 languages and is being adapted into a stage play. The novel was the winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. His work h...

Dan Chiasson is the author of five books of poetry: Must We Mean What We Say: A Poem in Four Phases (forthcoming, Alfred A. Knopf), Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014), Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), and The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Chiasson is the poetry critic for The New Yorker. In 2007, he p...

Rosanna Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Ar...

Douglas Trevor is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. He is currently serving as Director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Doug is the author, most recently, of the short story collection The Book of Wonders. His novel Girls I Know was the recipient of the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize. His first short story collection, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space, wo...

Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books, The Dream of Water, Polite Lies, Yarn, and four novels, Shizuko’s Daughter, One Bird, Stone Field, True Arrow, Barn Cat. Her stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, Fourth Genre, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, Conjunctions, The Best American Essays, and other journals and anthologies. She teaches in George Mason University’s MFA...

Maud Casey is the author of three novels, most recently The Man Who Walked Away; and a short story collection, Drastic. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, Salon, Poets and Writers, A Public Space, and Literary Imagination. Her nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions was recently published by Graywolf Press....

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of Heaven, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, and The Ground: Poems, for which he received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award, the 2013 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic,...

Mitchell S. Jackson is the author of the novel The Residue Years. He is the winner of a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His honors include fellowships from TED, the Lannan Foundation, the...

W. S. Di Piero is the author of eleven books of poetry, including, most recently, Tombo. Winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, his poems have appeared frequently in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Threepenny Review, and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and other periodicals. Di Piero has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowshi...

Noy Holland is the recipient of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest book, I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like, New and Selected Stories, was published by Counterpoint in January 2017. Her novel, Bird (Counterpoint), appeared in 2015. Holland’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), Wh...

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. A new hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, recently won the Independent Publishers Book Award’s silver medal. Matthews is currently serially publishing The Life & Times of American Crow, a “collage novel in 11 chapbooks,” and worki...

Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor and cultural activist and co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. She also directed The Poetry Project in NYC which she helped found in 1966. She is the author of over forty books of poetry, including the book-length hybrid narrative poem Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets 2009), and th...

Eileen Pollack is the author, most recently, of the novel, A Perfect Life, published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2016. Her other novels include Paradise, New York, and Breaking and Entering, which was awarded the 2012 Grub Street National Book Prize and named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. She is the author of two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth, whi...

Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-a...

Paul Russell is the author of seven novels, including Immaculate Blue and Boys of Life. Two of his novels, The Coming Storm and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, won the Ferro-Grumley Award, and three have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. Sea of Tranquillity was chosen as one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels by the Triangle Publishing Group. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, at...