Robert McKay

Robert McKay

Robert McKay is based in Burlington, Vermont. He has poetry forthcoming in Measure. His criticism recently appeared in . . .

Barbara Walsh

Writing Memoirs from the heart and telling stories that should not be forgotten, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist . . .

Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection, Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), won . . .

Mario Susko

Mario Susko is the suthor of 30 poetry collections, including Closing Time (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008), Epi/Logos . . .

Kevin Pilkington

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches a workshop in the graduate . . .

Book Festival Opening Ceremonies

Alison Bechdel (2012)

Alison Bechdel is the author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) and Are You My Mother: A . . .

Rob Mermin and Rob Gurwitt: It's a Circus - or at Least a Book About One!

Rob Mermin, the founder of Circus Smirkus and co-author of Circus Smirkus: 25 Years of Running Home to the Circus, ran . . .

Peter Gilbert

Peter A. Gilbert has been Executive Director of the Vermont Humanities Council since 2002 and Robert Frost's literary . . .

Millennial Writers on Stage

Co-hosted by Robin Fawcett and Reuben Jackson, Millennial Writers on Stage will showcase Vermont’s finest young . . .

Bill McKibben: Taking on Fossil Fuel Companies

This year's Festival Dedicatee, Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The . . .

Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea is Poet Laureate of Vermont. His most recent collection of poems is Six Sundays Toward a Seventh: Selected . . .