MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Janine Joseph, Jeffrey Mann, Khadijah Queen, Soham Patel, Sophia Terazawa
Fiction: Evan Lavender-Smith, Lucinda Roy, Matthew Vollmer
The program offers full funding through three-year teaching and graduate assistantships. All students have the opportunity to teach composition and creative writing. Each assistantship includes a full tuition waiver, health insurance, and annual stipend of more than $20,000.
The program hosts a visiting writers series, an MFA student reading series, and encourages students to engage in cross-genre work with courses in playwriting, creative nonfiction, new media creative writing, and literary editing.
Visiting writers for 2023-24 included Elizabeth Kolbert, Monica Sok, and Natasha Trethewey.
More information can be found on the program’s website.
Honora Ankong, Anuradha Bhowmik, Dashiel Carrera, Weston Cutter, Jeremy Griffin, Kira Homsher, Christopher Linforth, Evan Massey, Carrie Meadows, Uche Okonkwo, Soraya Palmer, Shaina Phenix, Xandria Phillips, KMA Sullivan, Julia Tillinghast, Robert Walker, Adele Williams, Lamar Wilson, Bessie F. Zaldívar