This winter, I’m taking a leave of absence from my teaching at the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults to focus on my own fiction.

I’d like to send my best wishes to the students, graduate assistants, faculty, and VC MFA administration as well as a boisterous cheer to the graduating class!

Faculty in session: Marion Dane Bauer (author interview), Margaret Bechard (author interview), David Grifaldi, Brent Hartinger (author interview)(LJ), Sharon Darrow (faculty chair)(author interview), Ellen Howard (author interview), Uma Krishnaswami (author interview), Julie Larios (author interview), Leda Schubert (author interview), Rita Williams-Garcia (author interview), and Tim Wynne-Jones (author interview).

Visiting writers: Susan Fletcher, Jane Kurtz (author interview), Norma Fox Mazer (author interview), and An Na (author interview).

Cynsational Note

Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by faculty member Julie Larios, illustrated by Julie Paschkis (Harcourt, 2006) was a 2006 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book (Fiction and Poetry).