20 Notable alumni of Vermont College of Fine Arts
Updated: June 12, 2026 EliteDegrees
Vermont College of Fine Arts is ranked #6,535 in the world and #1,702 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from 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. Many individuals affiliated with Vermont College of Fine Arts won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jennifer K. Sweeney
1973-. (aged 53)
poet
writer
Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.
2. Charles Herbert Joyce
1830-1916 (aged 86)
lawyer
politician
Charles Herbert Joyce was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. representative from Vermont.
3. Amy Dryansky
1960-. (aged 66)
poet
writer
Amy Dryansky is an American poet.
4. Janette Hill Knox
1845-1920 (aged 75)
temperance worker
educator
suffragist
lecturer
newspaper editor
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).
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5. Patricia Spears Jones
1951-. (aged 75)
poet
writer
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...
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6. Alison Hawthorne Deming
1946-. (aged 80)
essayist
poet
writer
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...
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7. Debora Pignatelli
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Debora B. Pignatelli is an American politician. A Democrat, she is the former New Hampshire Executive Council member for District Five.
8. Caroline Burnham Kilgore
1838-1909 (aged 71)
lawyer
suffragette
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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9. Deborah Wiles
1953-. (aged 73)
children's writer
novelist
writer
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,...
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10. Tim Seibles
1955-. (aged 71)
poet
university teacher
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...
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11. Norbert Hirschhorn
1938-. (aged 88)
internist
physician
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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12. Kekla Magoon
1980-. (aged 46)
children's writer
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...
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13. Abiola Abrams
1976-. (aged 50)
novelist
film director
television actor
essayist
motivational speaker
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...
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14. Abigail Hing Wen
1977-. (aged 49)
writer
novelist
Abigail Hing Wen is an American writer, film producer, director 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 to the film Love in Taipei...
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15. Ibi Zoboi
writer
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 Adults' Literature in 2017.
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16. Michelle Knudsen
1974-. (aged 52)
children's writer
novelist
writer
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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17. Wally Lamb
1950-. (aged 76)
writer
novelist
Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The River Is Waiting, all of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club or Oprah's Book Club 2.0. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and...
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18. Lauren Myracle
1969-. (aged 57)
writer
comics writer
children's writer
novelist
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, 2011.
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19. Gail Gregg
photographer
painter
Gail Gregg is an American mixed-media artist and journalist based in New York City. Her work includes abstract painting, works on paper and objects, collage, photography and artist books. She is best known for encaustic paintings and works on paper that transform everyday, ephemeral discards—scavenged shipping cardboard and crate lids, orphaned photo albums or library cards—into enduring works that emphasize...
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20. Martine Leavitt
1953-. (aged 73)
writer
children's writer
novelist
university teacher
Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.