MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Dan Beachy-Quick, Matthew Cooperman, Camille Dungy, Sasha Steensen
Fiction: Andrew Altschul, Ramona Ausubel, Nina McConigley
Nonfiction: Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
The program offers six to eight fully-funded graduate teaching assistantship positions per year, as well as a number of smaller fellowships. The program also offers assistance to students in finding paid internships.
This program features a dual-genre thesis option, as well as the Creative Writing Reading Series (recent visitors include Ada Limón, Yusef Komunyakaa, Susan Steinberg, Ross Gay, Sunil Yapa, Carl Phillips) and the 5X5 Reading Series.
Award-winning journalist and 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Vauhini Vara will join the 2023-2024 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English.