In addition to published author, you are adding another career to your resume this year: College President. Can you tell us about the new Vermont College of Fine Arts that you have formed?

About a year ago, a group of us were drunk enough on ambition to try to build a new college, the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Our goal was to buy the three renowned MFA programs and the historic Vermont College campus from Union Institute & University and create a new institution, a truly national center for the fine arts. We have an agreement in principle with Union Institute & University, have built a board of trustees, identified financing, and we’re busy raising money and working around issues of accreditation. I have agreed to be the founding president on the condition that the board will replace me within a year and I can return to writing full-time. The remarkable thing about this experience, for me, has been how much it resembles novel writing. I have never considered myself a particularly disciplined person. With three novels in five years, that might surprise some people. But building the college is like writing a novel in that it really is a matter of one foot in front of the other. A word becomes a sentence; a sentence becomes a paragraph; a paragraph becomes a chapter; and chapters become a novel. You don’t realize how much work you have done until you stop and look back. The joy of this project has been the public nature of the creativity: rather than working in solitude, I have built this with the help of many smart and creative colleagues. I am looking forward to watching it grow.

What's something you'd like your readership to know about you that isn't in the official bio?

That I was born to dance. No, I’m kidding. I’m tone deaf and have never felt the music. I suppose I’d like people to know that I am accessible and love to get feedback about my novels and to hear directly from readers. My e-mail is thomaschristophergreene@comcast.net. Write me anytime.