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University of Arizona

MFA Program

MFA Program Established:

1972

Location:

Tucson, Arizona

Genres Include:

Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Residency:

Full

Duration:

2 Years

Program Size:

Application Deadline:

January 1, 2013

Application Fee:

$75

Website:

http://cwp.web.arizona.edu

Contact E-mail:

Contact Name:

Lila Garcia

Core Faculty Includes:

Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Elizabeth Evans, Robert Houston, Fenton Johnson, Jane Miller, Ander Monson, Manuel Munoz, Boyer Rickel, Aurelie Sheehan, Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Funding/Employment Opportunities:

Teaching Assistantships, Scholarships, Instructorships, Internship opportunities with various publications, presses, and cultural centers, Editor-in-Chief position at the Sonora Review, UA Foundation Awards, Poetry Center Poet-in-Residence

Affiliated Publications/Publishers:

Sonora Review, Kore Press, Chax Press, Tucson Weekly, Terrain.org

Other Features:

This program hosts the Prose Reading Series for visiting writers as well as the student Works-in-Progress Reading Series. Other features include the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the English Graduate Union (EGU), and the Southern Arizona Writing Project.

Graduates:

Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, David Foster Wallace

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