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Home » Tools for Writers » MFA Programs » Cornell University
Cornell University
MFA and PhD Programs
Location:
Ithaca, New York
Genres Include:
Poetry and Fiction
Residency:
full
Size:
16
Application Deadline:
December 15, 2012
E-mail address:
Contact:
J. Robert Lennon
Core Faculty Includes:
Alice Fulton, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Joanie Mackowski, J. Robert Lennon, Helena Maria Viramontes, Stephanie Vaughn, Ernesto Quinonez, Robert Morgan
Funding/Employment Opportunities:
The program presently offers students a total of four years of potential support. For the two years while students study for their MFA, they are given full tuition waivers in exchange for one year of editoral assistantship at EPOCH, and one year of First-Year Writing Seminar teaching. Students may then apply for two more years as lecturers at Cornell, teaching both First-Year Writing Seminars and creative writing classes.
Affiliated Publications:
Other Features:
offers MFA/PhD Joint-Degree Program, visiting writers series, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, annual Reading Series now endowed; recent guests include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon, and Robert Hass. 2012-13 will feature Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Dana Spiotta, Ishion Hutchinson, Claudia Emerson, and Lynn Emmanuel, among others.
Graduates:
Téa Obreht, Alexi Zentner, Catherine Chung, Emily Rosko, Junot Diaz, Melissa Bank, Gabrielle Calvocaressi, and NoViolet Bulawayo, among many others.
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