Vermont Studio Center

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 supported by a grant from The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

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 Foundation.

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.