20 Notable alumni of
Vermont College of Fine Arts
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The Vermont College of Fine Arts is 2363rd in the world, 818th in North America, and 772nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the Vermont College of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wally Lamb
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- writernovelist
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Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
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Lauren Myracle
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- writercomics writerchildren's writernovelist
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Lauren Myracle is an American writer of young adult fiction. She has written many novels, including the three best-selling "IM" books, ttyl, ttfn and l8r, g8r. Her book Thirteen Plus One was released May 4, 2010.
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Gail Gregg
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- photographerpainter
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Gail Gregg is an American artist, photographer, and journalist, based in New York City.
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Abiola Abrams
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- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- motivational speakerwriterbloggernovelistfilm director
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Abiola Abrams is an American author, podcaster, motivational speaker and spiritual life coach. Abrams has penned three books, including African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy, her first book from self-help publisher Hay House, published on July 20, 2021. Her second book, The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love, won an African American Literary Award for Best Self Help. Black Enterprise included her inspirational podcast in "20 Must-Listen to Black Women Podcasts for 2019" and in 2020, her podcast was chosen by Success.com as one of "16 Motivational Podcasts by Black Hosts You Need to Listen To." Essence Magazine included Abrams' annual Goddess Retreat in their roundup of "Black Girl-Approved and Operated Wellness Escapes." Abrams' website, Womanifesting.com, discusses spirituality, personal growth, and entrepreneurship.
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Ibi Zoboi
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Haiti - Occupations
- writer
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Ibi Aanu Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017.
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Abigail Hing Wen
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Abigail Hing Wen is an American writer, film producer, lawyer and speaker. Her debut young adult novel, Loveboat, Taipei, was purchased in a multi-house auction by HarperCollins in a two-book deal, along with Loveboat Reunion. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it remained for multiple weeks and has been adapted for film by ACE Entertainment and released through Paramount+ as of August 10, 2023.
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Martine Leavitt
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- writerchildren's writernovelist
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Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.
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Michelle Knudsen
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- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelist
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Michelle Knudsen is a New York Times best-selling American children's author. She has written 50 books for children, including the multiple-award-winning Library Lion, the Trelian middle grade fantasy trilogy, and the Evil Librarian young adult horror/comedy/romance trilogy.
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Deborah Wiles
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- writerchildren's writernovelist
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Deborah Wiles is a children's book author. Her second novel, Each Little Bird That Sings, was a 2005 National Book Award finalist. Her documentary novel, Revolution, was a 2014 National Book Award finalist. Wiles received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2004 and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2005. Her fiction centers on home, family, kinship, and community, and often deals with historical events (Freedom Summer/Civil Rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War), social justice issues, and childhood reactions to those events, as well as everyday childhood moments and mysteries, most taken directly from her childhood. She often says, "I take my personal narrative and turn it into story."
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Tim Seibles
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- poetuniversity teacher
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Tim Seibles is an American poet, professor and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems (Etruscan Press, 2022). His honors include an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In 2012 he was nominated for a National Book Award, for Fast Animal.
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Norbert Hirschhorn
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- internistphysician
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Norbert Hirschhorn is an Austrian-born American public health physician. He was one of the inventors and developers of the life-saving method called oral rehydration therapy for adults and children suffering fluid loss from cholera and other infectious diarrheal illnesses. It is estimated that his work has saved around 50 million people suffering from dehydration.
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Kekla Magoon
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- children's writer
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Kekla Magoon is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated young adult novel The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X. In 2021, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her body of work. Her works also include middle grade novels, short stories, and historical, socio-political, and economy-related non-fiction.
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Patricia Spears Jones
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- poetwriter
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Patricia Spears Jones is an American poet. She is the author of five books of poetry. Jones is the editor of "The Future Differently Imagined", an issue of About Place Journal, the online publication of Black Earth Institute. Previously, she was the co-editor for Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women. Her poem "Beuys and the Blonde" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jones was the winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for 2017, and she was the 2020 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoet
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Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has two books out in 2025: the poetry collection "Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower" (Red Hen Press) and the anthology "The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, & Connection" (Storey Press). She received a 2021-24 Fellowship from the Borchard Foundation.
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Debora Pignatelli
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- politician
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Debora B. Pignatelli is an American politician. A Democrat, she is the former New Hampshire Executive Council member for District Five.
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Caroline Burnham Kilgore
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- lawyersuffragette
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Caroline Burnham Kilgore was the first woman to graduate from: (A) a medical school and be granted an M.D. (in 1865) in New York State and (B) from University of Pennsylvania Law School and be admitted to the orphan's court bar (in 1881) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She became the first woman lawyer in Pennsylvania.
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Jennifer K. Sweeney
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- poetwriter
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Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.
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Charles Herbert Joyce
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- lawyerpolitician
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Charles Herbert Joyce was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont.
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Amy Dryansky
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- poetwriter
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Amy Dryansky is an American poet.
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Janette Hill Knox
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- lecturernewspaper editorwritersocial reformertemperance worker
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Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor. She served as President of the New Hampshire State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
