MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Sumita Chakraborty, Rita Dove, Kiki Petrosino, Lisa Russ Spaar, Brian Teare
Fiction: Jane Alison, Jessie Ball, Anna Beecher, Jeb Livingood, Micheline Marcom, Kevin Moffett
The program offers full funding. All admitted students receive up to $30,600 in fellowships or wages each academic year in the standard three-year program. There is an option to graduate after two years. First-year students have no teaching obligations in their fall term but teach one creative writing course in the spring. Second-year students teach one section of intro poetry or fiction writing each term. Third-year students teach two courses per term, primarily composition.
The program hosts the Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program and the Rea Writer Series, which includes visits and one-on-one conferences with notable writers. The program also awards the $15,000 Henfield Prize, given for the best work of fiction written by a student in the program.
Students are not required to take the GREs for admission.
Adam Giannelli, Chad Harbach, Eleanor Henderson, Greg Jackson, Mary Beth Keane, Erika Meitner, Thomas Pierce, Hannah Pittard, Safiya Sinclair, Austin Smith