19 Notable alumni of
Vermont College of Fine Arts

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The Vermont College of Fine Arts is 2362nd in the world, 828th in North America, and 782nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 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.

  1. Wally Lamb

    Wally Lamb
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    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.

  2. Lauren Myracle

    Lauren Myracle
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    novelistchildren's writercomics writerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  3. Gail Gregg

    Gail Gregg
    Occupations
    painterphotographer
    Biography

    Gail Gregg is an American artist, photographer, and journalist, based in New York City.

  4. Abiola Abrams

    Abiola Abrams
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    novelistbloggerwritermotivational speakeressayist
    Biography

    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.

  5. Ibi Zoboi

    Ibi Zoboi
    Born in
    Haiti Flag Haiti
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    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.

  6. Martine Leavitt

    Martine Leavitt
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    novelistchildren's writerwriter
    Biography

    Martine Leavitt is a Canadian-American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.

  7. Michelle Knudsen

    Michelle Knudsen
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    novelistchildren's writerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  8. Deborah Wiles

    Deborah Wiles
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    novelistchildren's writerwriter
    Biography

    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."

  9. Tim Seibles

    Tim Seibles
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    poet
    Biography

    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.

  10. Norbert Hirschhorn

    Norbert Hirschhorn
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    physicianinternist
    Biography

    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.

  11. Kekla Magoon

    Kekla Magoon
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    children's writer
    Biography

    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.

  12. Patricia Spears Jones

    Patricia Spears Jones
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    writerpoet
    Biography

    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 will serve as the 2020 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.

  13. Alison Hawthorne Deming

    Alison Hawthorne Deming
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    essayistwriterpoet
    Biography

    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.

  14. Debora Pignatelli

    Debora Pignatelli
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Debora B. Pignatelli is an American politician. A Democrat, she is the former New Hampshire Executive Council member for District Five.

  15. Caroline Burnham Kilgore

    Caroline Burnham Kilgore
    Years
    1838-1909 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    suffragettelawyer
    Biography

    Caroline Burnham Kilgore was the first woman admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She became the first woman lawyer in Pennsylvania.

  16. Charles Herbert Joyce

    Charles Herbert Joyce
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1830-1916 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Charles Herbert Joyce was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont.

  17. Jennifer K. Sweeney

    Jennifer K. Sweeney
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    writerpoet
    Biography

    Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.

  18. Amy Dryansky

    Amy Dryansky
    Occupations
    writerpoet
    Biography

    Amy Dryansky is an American poet.

  19. Janette Hill Knox

    Janette Hill Knox
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1845-1920 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    temperance workersocial reformerwriternewspaper editorlecturer
    Biography

    Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor.