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Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is an international artists' and writers' residency program in the United States, hosting artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world.VSC provides studio residencies on an historic 30-building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.

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  1. Visiting Writer Reading - Nina McConigley 7/30/26

    Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. She earned her MA from the University of Wyoming, and her MFA at the University of Houston. Her short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. Her work has…

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  2. Visiting Writer Reading- m.s. RedCherries 11/6/25

    m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in New York City. Her debut, mother (Penguin Books) was a finalist for the National Book Award. msredcherries.com…

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  3. Visiting Writer Reading- Madhu H. Kaza 7/2/26

    Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist and educator based in New York City. She is the author of Lines of Flight and the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores connections between translation and migration. Her writing has appeared in the...

  4. Visiting Writer Reading- Caroline M. Mar 6/11/26

    Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Water Guest, the Editors’ Selection for the 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series. She is also the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press), which won the 2019 X. J. Kennedy Prize, and the chapbook Dream of the Lake...

  5. Visiting Writer Reading- Mai Der Vang 5/21/26

    Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, along with Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the First Book…

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  6. Visiting Writer Reading- Bianca Stone- Vermont Week 5/6/26

    Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of many books, including the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite which received the 2022 Vermont Book Award, and The Near and Distant World, (Tin House in January, 2026).…

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  7. Visiting Writer Reading- Margaret Ray 3/26/26

    Margaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida. She is the author of GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions, 2023, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize) and SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC (2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Prize). Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The...

  8. Visiting Writer Reading- Zara Chowdhary 3/5/26

    Zara Chowdhary is the author of The Lucky Ones. A multi-hyphenate writer, producer, and educator from Chennai, India, she now lives in Madison, WI. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University and an MA in Writing for Performance from the University of Leeds. She...

  9. Visiting Writer Reading- Cherie Jones 2/12/26

    Cherie Jones is a Barbadian novelist and short story writer whose short fiction credits include Reflex Fiction, The Feminist Wire, PANK, Eclectica, and BBC Radio 4. She is a former fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and the International Writers Programme of the University of Iowa.…

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  10. Visiting Writer Reading- Rigoberto Gonzalez 1/22/26

    Rigoberto González is the author of 20 books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Latino Poetry, a Library of America anthology. His awards include the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Shelley Memorial Prize, Guggenheim, Lannan, NEA, NYFA, and USA Rolón fellowships.…

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  11. Visiting Writer Reading- Sarah Cypher 1/8/26

    Sarah Cypher is the author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine 2023), a Stonewall Honor Book also shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Creative Writing Fellow in...

  12. Visiting Writer Reading- Kurt Caswell 10/9/25

    Kurt Caswell is the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently, Iceland Summer: Travels Along the Ring Road, with 35 full-color illustrations by artist Julia Oldham. Winner of a Foreword Indie Silver Medal for science writing, Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog, tells the…

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  13. Visiting Writer Reading- Charmaine Wilkerson 9/11/25

    Charmaine Wilkerson is a Caribbean-American writer who is originally from New York and has lived in Jamaica and Italy. Her writing frequently explores shifting ideas of home, family and self. She is the author of two novels, Black Cake and Good Dirt, and her award-winning short fiction can be…

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  14. Visiting Writer Reading- Tiana Clark 8/28/25

    Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collections: Scorched Earth (Washington Square Press/Atria, 2024), I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected...

  15. Visiting Writer Reading- Marcella Pixley 7/31/25

    Marcella Pixley has written five acclaimed novels for young people: Freak, Without Tess, Ready To Fall. Trowbridge Road and most recently, Neshama. Freak received four starred reviews and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, Without Tess was a Junior Library Guild Selection, Ready to Fall…

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  16. Visiting Writer Reading- Cynthia Dewi Oka 7/3/25

    Originally from Bali, Indonesia, Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of four books of poems, most recently A Tinderbox in Three Acts, a Blessing the Boats Selection chosen by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions, 2022) and Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press, 2021). A recipient of the Amy...

  17. Visiting Writer Reading-Carolyn Kuebler- Vermont Week 5/7/25

    Carolyn Kuebler’s debut novel, Liquid, Fragile, Perishable, was published in May 2024 by Melville House. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Common and Colorado Review, among others, and “Wildflower Season” (Massachusetts Review) won the 2022 John Burroughs Award for Nature Essay. She was…

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  18. Visiting Writer Reading- Mark Wunderlich 4/10/25

    Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness published by Graywolf Press. His other collections include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage which received the Lambda Literary Award....

  19. Visiting Writer Reading- EmilyBernard 3/27/25

    Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Bernard is the winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for...

  20. Visiting Writer Reading- Elisa Gonzalez 1/23/25

    Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center, W.S. Merwin Conservancy, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Rolex Foundation, and U.S. Fulbright Program. She is…

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  21. Visiting Writer Reading- Kim Coleman Foote 3/6/25

    Kim Coleman Foote is the author of the debut novel Coleman Hill, named a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, NAACP Image Award, and Audie Award, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Inspired by Kim’s family, Coleman Hill weaves fact and fiction to trace…

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  22. Visiting Writer Reading- Maya Marshall 2/13/25

    Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. Winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love (2022). Marshall...

  23. Visiting Writer Reading- Brendan Shay Basham 12/5/24

    Brendan Shay Basham (Diné) is Tó Ts’ohnii (Big Water) and Bit’ah’nii (Folded-Arms People), born for bilagáana (Irish, Scottish, English, German). A writer, artist, educator, and recovering chef, Brendan was born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of...

  24. Visiting Writer Reading- Jennifer Chang 01/09/25

    Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including American Poetry Review, The Believer, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Yale…

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  25. Visiting Writer Reading- Lars Horn 09/11/24

    Lars Horn is a writer and translator working in literary and experimental nonfiction. Their first book, Voice of the Fish (Graywolf, 2022), won the 2020 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, and was named an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall...

  26. Visiting Writer Reading- J. Bruce Fuller 08/29/24

    J. Bruce Fuller is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include The Dissenter's Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared at The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022, among others. He…

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  27. Visiting Writer Reading- Claire Luchette 07/03/24

    Claire Luchette is the author of Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Claire's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Indiana Review.…

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  28. Visiting Writer Reading- Temim Fruchter 06/12/24

    Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, loves saturated color, and believes in queer possibility. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio...

  29. Visiting Writer Reading- Jen Soriano 05/23/24

    Jen Soriano (she~they) is a Filipinx writer and movement builder who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art-driven social change. Jen has won the International Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Fugue Prose Prize, and fellowships from…

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  30. Visiting Writer Reading- Kerrin McCadden 05/08/24

    Kerrin McCadden was the recipient of the 2022 Herb Lockwood Prize for excellence in the arts in Vermont. She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently American Wake (Black Sparrow Press, 2021), finalist for the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. Her poems have…

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  31. Visiting Writer Reading- Paul Tran 04/10/24

    Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, published by Penguin. Their work appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University...

  32. Visting Writer Reading- Ladee Hubbard 02/15/24

    Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novels The Talented Ribkins which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and The Rib King. Her most recent book The Last Suspicious Holdout, a collection of stories, was published in...

  33. Visiting Writer Reading- Rowan Ricardo Phillips 03/20/24

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, journalist, and translator. His poetry collections include The Ground (FSG, 2012), Heaven (FSG, 2015), Living Weapon (FSG, 2020), and the forthcoming Silver (FSG, 2024). He is also the author…

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  34. Visiting Writer Reading - Miciah Bay Gault 01/11/24

    Miciah Bay Gault is the author of the novel Goodnight Stranger (Park Row, 2019), which was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s first novel prize, and selected for Poets & Writers’ First Fiction roundup. Miciah was the 2023 Shane Stevens Fellow in the…

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  35. Visiting Writer Reading - Ricardo A. Wilson 11/17/23

    Ricardo Wilson is the author of An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories (PANK Books, 2021) and The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Northwestern UP, 2020). An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories was selected as a finalist for both the Vermont Book...

  36. Visiting Writer Reading - Deborah Taffa 10/25/23

    Deborah Jackson Taffa is the director of the MFA CW at IAIA. Her memoir WHISKEY TENDER (HarperCollins) was named one of the most anticipated books to watch for in 2024 by Zibby Media with a publication date set for February 27th. She has won fellowships from PEN America, MacDowell, Hedgebrook…

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  37. Visiting Writer Reading - Sean Hill 10/4/23

    Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press,...

  38. Visiting Writer Reading - Nandi Comer 08/09/23

    Nandi Comer is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. She is...

  39. Visiting Writer Reading - Christopher Merrill Reading 07/05/23

    Christopher Merrill has published seven collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and translations; and six books of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan...

  40. Visiting Writer Reading - Jason Schneiderman 06/22/23

    Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020), and including the forthcoming Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). His poems and essays have appeared...

  41. Visiting Writer Reading - K-Ming Chang 06/31/23

    K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel...

  42. Visiting Writer Reading - Grace Talusan 05/17/23

    Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Talusan has published in Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Boston magazine, The...

  43. Visiting Writer Reading - Tarfia Faizullah 04/27/23

    Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam (SIU, 2014). Her writing has appeared widely in periodicals and magazines in the US and abroad and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art…

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  44. Visiting Writer Reading - Nathan McClain - 2/15/23

    Nathan McClain is the author of two collections of poetry -- most recently, Previously Owned (2022), and Scale (2017) -- both from Four Way Books. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor for the Massachusetts Review. nathanmcclain.com Author photo courtesy of Moe Nazemi...

  45. Visiting Writer Reading - Crystal Wilkinson - 01/25/23

    Crystal Wilkinson is the national award-winning author of Perfect Black (winner of a 2022 NAACP Image Award), The Birds of Opulence (winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence), Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the...

  46. Visiting Writer Reading Series - Jane Brox - 1/4/23

    Jane Brox‘s fifth book, Silence, was published in January 2019, and was selected as an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times Book Review. It received the 2020 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her previous book, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, was named one of the top ten...

  47. Visiting Writer Reading Series - Jennifer Foerster - 11/09/22

    Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (forthcoming 2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native...

  48. Visiting Writer Reading Series - Emily Bernard - 8/22/22

    Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Mother's Time and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Black is the Body won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. Emily’s...

  49. VSC Reading Series - Maud Casey - 07/25/22

    This recording starts at the last description of a series of slides which Maud Casey shared, and were part of the archival research for the book, City of Incurable Women. Maud Casey is the author of five books of fiction, most recently City of Incurable Women, and a work of nonfiction, The Art of...

  50. VSC Reading Series - Phillip B. Williams - 06/20/22

    Phillip B. Williams is the author of Mutiny and Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels and Burn. Williams’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review,...

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Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is an international artists' and writers' residency program in the United States, hosting artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world.VSC provides studio residencies on an historic 30-building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.

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