MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Susan Barba, Andrea Cohen, Karl Kirchwey
Fiction: Allegra Goodman, Ha Jin, Weike Wang
The program offers full funding. Every student receives full tuition coverage and a teaching stipend.
The program also offers Global Fellowships, which allow students the opportunity to live, write, and explore for up to three months, anywhere in the world.
AGNI, Arion, 236, Favorite Poem Project
This program features the Bay State Road Reading Series and the Ha Jin Visting Lectures series. There is a foreign language requirement which may be satisfied in a number of ways.
Students may participate in unpaid editorial assistantships at Arion or AGNI. Additionally, students may participate in unpaid arts administration internships.
Applicants may apply for an application fee waiver.
The Creative Writing Program was first established in 1954, shortly after WWII, as an MA program.
Elizabeth Alexander, Ellen Bass, Robin Becker, A.J. Bermudez, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Catherine Con Morse, Peter Ho Davies, Rachel DeWoskin, Maggie Dietz, Duy Doan, Arthur Golden, Ha Jin, Daphne Kalotay, Jhumpa Lahiri, Patricia Park, Weike Wang