Vermont Studio Center

Ross Gay's books of poetry are Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and the forthcoming Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. He is also co-author, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. He is an editor with the chapbook press Q Avenue, in addition to being an editor with the online sports magazine, Some Call It Ballin'. He was a 2013 Guggenheim fellow.

Rose Bunch is a novelist and essayist from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her work appeared in Tin House, The Greensboro Review and New Letters. Rose Bunch joined us during September 2014. Here she reads from her story "Sustainability".

Toby Alman is a poet from Chicago and author of two poetry chapbooks, Asides (Furniture Press Books) and Life of Richard (Damask Press). He stopped by to read from his versed play that he worked on while at VSC.

Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a collection of essays on music. He is finishing a new novel. He also writes music criticism for Salon and The Rumpus.

Antonya Nelson is the author of seven short story collections, including FUNNY ONCE (Bloomsbury, 2014), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell). Work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Telluride, Colorado, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Houston, Texas.

Srikanth Reddy grew up in Chicago. He is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, both published by the University of California Press. A scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Reddy earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard University, and he has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Mellon Foundation. Hi is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Poet Zhu Zhu and Tranlator Dong Li were residents in June 2014, part of the Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship program supporting Chinese poets and translators.

DIANA WHITNEY is a writer, yoga instructor, and mother of two in Brattleboro, Vermont. In February 2009, she saw light at the mouth of The Baby Cave and started writing Spilt Milk, an irreverent, advice-free parenting column that was syndicated in several Vermont newspapers.

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts, and three novels: The Subject Steve, Home Land and The Ask. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, N+1, The Quarterly, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of ZOOLOGIES (Milkweed Editions, 2014); Science and Other Poems (LSU Press, 1994), selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets; three additional poetry books, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (LSU, 1997), Genius Loci (Penguin, 2005), and Rope (Penguin, 2009); and three nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands (Mercury House, 1994; Picador USA, 1996), The Edges of the Civilized World (Picador USA, 1998), finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed, Credo Series). She has recently completed a new nonfiction book titled Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. Her poems and essays have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Georgia Review, Orion, Isotope, Southwestern American Literature, Parthenon West, Sierra, Gnosis, Verse and Universe: Poems on Science and Mathematics, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is the former Director of the University of Arizona Poetry (1990-2002), the current Director of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and also serves as Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Orion magazine.