Vermont Studio Center

Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author two poetry collections, In No One's Land and My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer. Her third collection, Dolefully a Rampart Stands, is forthcoming in 2019. She works as the Associate Director of the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College and is on faculty at the New England College Low-Residency MFA. She recently left Vermont for rural Connecticut. Vermont Studio Ce...

Amina Gautier is the author of the short story collections At-­Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At­-Risk was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award, The First Horizon Award, and the Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Agni, Callaloo, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and...

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and attended Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), won the 2002 New York/New England Award. His second collection, Mixology (Penguin, 2009), was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in...

Evie Shockley is the author of four collections of poetry—including the new black (Wesleyan 2011), winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and a half­red sea (Carolina Wren Press 2006)—and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa 2011). Her poetry and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies, with recent o...

Jensen Beach is the author of the collection Swallowed by the Cold, as well as a previous collection of stories. His work has appeared in A Public Space, the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. He teaches in the BFA program at Johnson State College and the MFA Program in Writing & Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives in Vermont with his family.

Afaa Michael Weaver (born Michael Schan Weaver, 1951) is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, beginning with Water Song (U Virginia 1985) which was published in the Callaloo poetry series by Charles H. Rowell. Afaa received the 2014 Kingsley Tufts Award for The Government of Nature (U Pitt 2013), the second book in his Plum Flower Trilogy, which began with The Plum Flower Dance (U Pitt 20...

Robert Cohen’s books include Amateur Barbarians, Inspired Sleep, The Here and Now, The Organ Builder, and a collection of short stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience. Prior to teaching at Middlebury, he taught at Harvard, Rice, the University of Houston, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in Harpers, Paris Review, GQ, The Believer, and many other magazines,...

Howard A. Norman is an American award­-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages. Norman is a three-­time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His 1...

April Freely's work has appeared in Seneca Review, Gulf Coast, New Madrid, and elsewhere. A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant, she has also been awarded fellowships from VSC, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation. She served as Writing Coordinator in the Staff-Artist Program in 2016.

Vermont Studio Center President, Gary Clark, and his son, Roland Clark, share their work: Gary reads his poetry, followed by Roland's brief cadenzas on violin.

Katherine Lim was a writing fellow at VSC during the November 2016 session.

Sabina Murray lives in Amherst, MA, with her family, where she directs, and teaches in, the Creative Writing Program at UMass. She is the author of the novels Valiant Gentlemen, Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn, and the short story collections Tales of the New World and The Caprices, which was the winner of the 2002 PEN/​Faulkner award. All women Visiting Writers at VSC are generously...

Arnie (Tzu-Ying) Hung is a writer from Taiwan. She is the author of two short story collections, Under no sunshine, Practice of undesired, which were published in Taipei. She is writing her new novel, The tip of the branches, with a National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant for Novel Writing & Publishing Project (Taiwan). She lives and works as a screen writer in Taipei with her dog “Nori”.

Mikko Harvey lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can find his poems in places such as Colorado Review, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Sixth Finch, West Branch, and Best New Poets. Thanks to an Emerging Artist Fellowship, he spent November 2016 at VSC, where he wrote poems and was happy.

Paige Buffington holds both a BFA and MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Though her work is primarily poetry, her residency at Vermont Studio Center inspired an interest in lyric essays. She currently lives in Gallup, New Mexico.

Nat Schmookler is a writer from Virginia and New Mexico. His work has received support from Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hawthornden Castle, among other institutions. He now serves as the Interviews Editor at The Utopian.

Carol Moldaw’s most recent book is So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems (2010). She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River, as well as a novel, The Widening (2008). All women Visiting Writers at VSC are generously supported by a grant from The Rona Jaffe Foundatio...

Dana Levin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1965 and grew up in the Mojave Desert. She is the author of three books of poetry: In the Surgical Theatre, Wedding Day, and Sky Burial. Her fourth book of poetry, Banana Palace, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in Fall 2016. All women Visiting Writers at VSC are generously supported by a grant from The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). She is professor of English at the University of San Francisco. All women Visiting Writers at VSC are generously supported by a grant from The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Taylor Johnson is a poet from Washington, DC. They have received fellowships and scholarships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Lambda Literary Foundation, VONA, the Vermont Studio Center, the Lannan Center at Georgetown University, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Recently, their work appears in the minnesota review and Callaloo.

Geffrey Davis is the author of Revising the Storm (BOA Editions 2014), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His honors also include fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, and nominations for the...

Carl Phillips is the author of thirteen books of poems, most recently Reconnaissance(FSG, 2015) and Silverchest (FSG, 2013). Phillips has also published two books of prose, The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination, and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry; and he is the translator of Sophocles’s Philoctetes. His awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetr...

Christine Schutt is the author of two short story collections, Nightwork and A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer. Her first novel, Florida, was a National Book Award finalist; her second novel, All Souls, a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. A third novel, Prosperous Friends, was noted in The New Yorker as one of the best books of 2012. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as Harper’s,...

Toi Derricotte's most recent book is The Undertaker's Daughter. Her honors include the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement and the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and the The Paris Review. With Cornelius Easy, she co-founded Cave Canem in 1996, and she is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets....

He Xiaozhu, Jimu Langge, and D Dayton have been working together on poetry for more than ten years. Having begun their writing careers outside the metropolitan centers of China in the 1980s with the Not-Not poetry group, He Xiaozhu (a poet and novelist of Miao heritage) and Jimu Langge (a Nuosu Yi poet and writer) have consistently brought unique creative tension to the poetics of the Chinese lang...