MFA Writing for Children & Young Adults

 

 The nation's first MFA program focusing on writing for young readers. 

 

 

 

 

  •  Self-designed: create your own program with the help of accomplished artists & writers who are award-winning and nationally recognized in the field of children's literature 
 
  • Join a community of artists and writers and visit our  beautiful Vermont campus for intensive residencies twice a year  
 
  • Explore the writing of picture books as well as works for middle grade and young adult readers

     

 

 

 

Faculty Profiles

Profile Photo Julie Larios

Julie Larios is the author of four books for children: On the Stairs (1995), Have You Ever Done That? (named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Outstanding Children...

Points of View

MFA Visual Art Alumna

"This program awakened the activist spirit in me. I am more aware and involved in making work engaged in a discourse about social issues which affect the earth and its inhabitants.I am a new person. I can never go back to the old way of looking at art or the world again."

Points of Interest

Hunger Mountain Journal


 

MFA in Writing Alumna Shaindel Beers' Book