Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Kathie Giorgio's novel titled The Home for Wayward Clocks is being released in December 2010 from Main Street Rag Publishing. An established short story writer (her work has appeared in major journals and anthologies) this is her first novel. Kathie is the director and founder of All Writers' Workplace & Workshop.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Faculty Chair Xu Xi has a new novel titled Habits of a Foreign Sky releasing in October, 2010 from Haven Books. The novel's main character is a mixed-race, single mother who buries her mother and young son in less than two years. All she has left is a hard-won career at a global investment bank.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Nancy Fitzpatrick has received the 2010 Authors on Eighth Award from the Klondike Visitors Association for her prose piece, "A Great River Voyage," written in celebration of Dawson City, and the Klondike and Yukon Rivers, during a recent trip to Alaska and Canada.('05) 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Lyn Chamberlin has a new nonfiction piece coming out in the next issue of 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Visiting Faculty Connie May Fowler: has a short story titled "Do Not Enter the Memory" in 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Eve Rifkah announces the release of two books. A poetry collection titled Outcasts The Penikese Island Leper Hospital 1905- 1921 (Little Pear Press, 2010) that documents a little known leprasarium off the coast of Cape Cod. She has also released a novel in verse titled Dear Suzanne, (Turning Point Press, 2010) on the life and times of Suzanne Valadon 1865
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Emilie Bilman's doctoral thesis has been published as a book by Lambert Academic Publishing. The work is titled The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of TS Eliot and Paul Valéry. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Brad Davis had poems appear recently in Chautauqua and Anglican Theological Review. His new manuscript was a finalist for the White Eagle chapbook competition. Davis has been hired as a lecturer in creative writing at Eastern Connecticut State University beginning fall 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Elena Harap is a contributor and editor to a new anthology of poetry and short prose titled The Bones We Carry, a collection of work by a multicultural Boston-based group of writer-performers. Included are Elena's essay "Night Room" and several poems.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Richard Bentley's story titled "Two Birds One Stone"? has been accepted for publication by Alaska Quarterly Review as well as by two online magazines: Slow Trains & Battered Suitcase.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Nicholas Benson has translations of poems by Aldo Palazzeschi in 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Jane Waggoner Deschner's work will be the subject of a feature article in the upcoming September/October issue of Fiberarts Magazine. The issue hits the stands around August 1st.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Paula Yup's poem “Out of the Corner of Her Eye” saw publication in Off the Coast. She also has poems forthcoming in Street Review, Muse and Stone, and in California Quarterly. 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Joan Leegant announces the release of her novel titled Wherever You Go. The novel is published by W.W. Norton.
The Huffington Post has just published an interview with Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program faculty member Kathi Appelt. In it Kathi discusses the subject of American Fantasy.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Sundee Frazier has just released her second middle grade novel, titled The Other Half of My Heart.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Lyn Chamberlin has a lyric essay, "Somewhere in the North Atlantic," coming out in the September issue of The Potomac Review.
Exciting news from HungerMountain. The winners of the first Hunger Mountain Young Writers’ Prize have just been announced. The prize, judged by National Book Award winner M.T.
ermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Asia Freeman's work was 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Jessica Leader was featured this past weekend in an article in the Kentucky Courier-Journal about her new novel, Nice and Mean.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Julia Morgan-Leamon interviews artist and former VCFA faculty member Mike Glier about his recent trip along the 70th longitudinal line. The podcast is called Color of Place and the question she asks is "How would one describe the geometry of the earth en plein aire?" Artist Mike Glier recounts positioning himself at various points along a line of longitude with easel and paints.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Philip Graham's book, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon is going to be translated into Portuguese and released from Editorial Presença in April 2011.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program alumna Robin Oliviera's first novel, My Name is Mary Sutter, has made Oprah's O Magazine's "What to Read Next: our 26 Favorite Books of the Summer" list. The announcement is in the July 2010 issue which is on newstands now.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Iris Gomez's debut novel, Try to Remember, was just released from Grand Central Publishing. The novel tells the tale of "a Colombian teenager struggling to forge her own identity in the changing cultural landscape of 1970s Miami, while keeping her increasingly volatile, mentally ill father out of legal trouble."
Vermont College of Fine Arts alumnus René Colato Laínez recieved an honorable mention from the 2010 International Latino Book Award for his bilingual picture book Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene Tiene Dos Apellidos. The awards, given by 
Congratulations to Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Jim McGarrah whose book, A Temporary Sort of Peace: A Memoir of Vietnam, has won the Legacy Nonfiction Prize for 2010 from the 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Lauren Myracle has a new book being released on May 4th. The novel, titled Thirteen Plus One, is the latest in a series of middle grade novels that follow the life of the same character, Winnie Perry.
The Lifetime Movie based on Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sue William Silverman's memoir Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction, is now available online in its entirety. The film, starring Sally Pressman (from "Army Wives") can be viewed on My Lifetime, 
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The Summer 2010 issue of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature is now available. The journal is edited by Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sascha Feinstein and this particular issue includes an interview with and poetry by our own Betsy Sholl.
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Schubert, has announced signings for her new picture book, Feeding the Sheep. They are scheduled in various places in New England throughout 2010:
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Jane Camens is the overall winner of the 2009/10 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. Her story, "A Matter of Luck" was chosen by judge Ronan Bennett and was among 1,800 total entries. Fish is an idependent publishing company based out of County Cork, Ireland. This short story prize has had honorary patrons such as Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy and Frank McCourt.
In this week's 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Maria Driscoll McMahon is the lead story in today's Pennsylvania Morning Times. The article talks about "The Burdocks Project," her written word and performance art project that she hopes demonstrates that there is much more to the Town of Barton, PA and its people beyond the rural stereotypes.
Writer John Warner interviews Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Philip Graham in the current issue of The Morning News.com. Warner talks to the author (who is also his former professor) about "finding topics, developing mentors, and reaching readers."
Carnegie Online, the online publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is running a feature story on Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Madelyn Roehrig and her ongoing art project, Figments: Conversations with Andy, in which the artist-educator is documenting who visits the late artist Andy Warhol’s grave.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Cynthia Leitich Smith's novel Eternal is on this week's 
Vermont College of Fine Arts Board of Trustees member and new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Katherine Paterson is featured in several articles (as well as appearing on the cover) in the current March/April 2010 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, the publication for children's and young adult literature.
Two Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Alumna have work in the new anthology Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum. The book includes alumna Maggie Kast's piece called "No Pity," and a Carolyn Walker essay titled "Evolution of a Fairy."
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumna Pamela Gemin has a new book of poetry published by The University of Arkansas Press. The book, Another Creature, was a finalist in this year's Inaugural Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.
VCFA MFA in Writing alumnus Josh Wilker has a memoir titled Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards coming out from Seven Footer Press in April 2010.
Meg Wiviott, a current student in Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, announces the release of her picture titled Benno and th
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumnus René Colato Laínez announced the release of his new picture book titled My Shoes and I. It tells the story of a young boy who is leaving his home in El Salvador for a new one in the United States. This work is illustrated by Fabricio Vanden Broeck and was published by Boyds Mill Press.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing For Children & Young Adults alumna Zu Vincent recently released a new young adult book entitled Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia as part of the Wicked History Series from Franklin Watts.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Rita Williams-Garcia's new book, One Crazy Summer, was a New York Times Editor's Choice book this week. The reviewer called the young adult novel a "a powerful and affecting story of sisterhood and motherhood."
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Ricki Thompson's first novel is due out this month. City of Cannibals, a historical fiction novel for young adults, will be released from Boyds Mill Press on February 1, 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art faculty member and UCLA faculty lecturer on Contemporary Art History Miwon Kwon talks to Los Angeles based artist, writer and fellow VCFA Faculty Member Michael Minelli about his current studio practice and recent show at WPA Gallery.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program has received incredible news from two of its alumnae this weekend.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member, Uma Krishnaswami will see her picture book, Chachaji's Cup, brought to life this month in New York and California.
It was just announced today that VCFA MFA in Writing For Children & Young Adults alumna Kekla Magoon has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens. The results will be broadcast on Fox Television on February 26, 2010.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Board of Trustees member and renowed children's writer Katherine Paterson was appointed the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in a ceremony at the Library of Congress this morning.
As of this week visitors to campus can enjoy our new ice skating rink located on the Vermont College of Fine Arts green.
Vermont Public Radio interviews Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program director Louise Crowley about the largest incoming group of writing students since the program's inception, 28 years ago.
A new exhibition at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, located in New Canaan, CT, features the work of two alumnae of VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program.
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VCFA MFA in Writing alumna Marni Jameson has a new book coming out from Decapo Books. It's entitled House of Havoc and will be released on February 1, 2010.
VCFA MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Debby Dahl Edwardson's book 
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sascha Feinstein’s The Jazz Fiction Anthology, edited by Sascha and David Rife, has just been published by Indiana University Press. The anthology includes stories by 29 writers, including James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Michelle Cliff, Julio Cortazar, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, and VCFA's own Xu Xi.
Riki Moss, VCFA visual art graduate 1994, has been invited to participate in an international exhibition in Nagoya, Japan, celebrating the year 2010 as the year of biodiversity. She will be sharing an installation space of 1200 square feet with three other Vermont artists and participating in workshops and panel discussions for 10 days in Nagoya.
VCFA MFA in Writing faculty member Domenic Stansberry's novel, The Ancient Rain--the third book in his quartet of San Francisco crime novels---was named as a finalist for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Crime Novel. 
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller just wrote a 
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Jan Groft (MFA Writing '92) will have a new book, AS WE GRIEVE: DISCOVERIES OF GRACE IN SORROW, released January 1, 2010, by Graham House Books.
Responsibility" (which was published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 2008 and was based on a lecture given at Vermont College of Fine Arts), as the introduction to the volume.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art faculty member Humberto Ramirez will open a curatorial project November 13th at The Chinese American Arts Council in New York City. 
It was announced today that Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Tim Wynne Jones' novel The Uninvited is a finalist for Canada's prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Children's Literature.
Vermont College of Fine Arts' own MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Rita Williams Garcia's book Jumped was named a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature today. Click 
Congratulations to MFA in Writing alumnus James Pounds whose short story "Two Shoes" just won first place in the Houston Writers' Guild 2009 Writing Contest in short story.
The Heard Museum in Phoenix 
"Figments: Conversations with Andy Warhol" is Alumna Madelyn Roehrig's ongoing project in which visitors to Warhol's grave site are encouraged to ask questions and leave comments. Roehrig's final installation at VCFA centered on this project. Read more about Roehrig's work in the 
(Although that walk might end up being on a high wire…literally!) We have so many fascinating alumni/ae at VCFA and we are proud to include among them Rick Wallenda, a writer and member of the World Famous Wallendas.
Dawn E. Langley, a 1996 
Liz Gallagher, MFA WC&YA (01/06) graduate, worked on the book, The Opposite of Invisible, all four semesters at Vermont from 2004-2006, with Lisa Jahn-Clough, Ron Koertge, MT Anderson, and Cynthia Leitich-Smith. Liz states, "honestly, this book would not exist without Vermont." This book was published in January 2008 by Wendy Lamb Books (Random House), as part of a two-book deal -- the second one is in the works!
Many of the poems in Norbert's first book, Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, 1999) were written or begun during the time he was earning his MFA at Vermont College. Norbert worked successively with Lyn Emmanuel, Syd Leay, Jonathan Holden, and David Wojahn.
Pam Lewis's book, Speak Softly, She Can Hear, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. Some of the material in the book came from stories that she worked on with Gladys Swan while she was an MFA student in 1981.
Patricia Spear Jones's book, The Weather that Kills, grew out of her MFA thesis. Several of the poems, most notably "The Usual Suspect", "Joss Sticks", and "The Birth of the Rhythm and Blues" were developed under the guidance of Lynda Hull, Mark Doty and David Rivard. Rivard's sharp eye really helped her arrange the collection.
MFA Visual Art Alum
"This program has opened me to new ways of working and thinking about art. I have developed a network of astounding people to enrich me as an artist. This program has given me a chance to find my voice in order to resonate in our culture. There has been an overwhelming transformation that came through struggle and hard work in my time here."