Virginia Tech [1]
minnesota review [2], New River [3]
Poetry: 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 [5].