MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Martin Corless-Smith (Director), Sara Nicholson, Taryn (Schwilling) Birdsall
Fiction: Mitch Wieland, Anna Caritj
Creative Nonfiction and Translation: Chris Violet Eaton, Clyde Moneyhun
The program offers full funding. All students receive a teaching or graduate assistantship position with full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a stipend of $11,450 for each of the three years. All teaching assistantships are in creative writing. Graduate assistantships include opportunities to work with the program’s affiliated small presses.
BSU has an extraordinary Visiting Writers/Reading series. Semester-long visitors have included: Bhanu Kapil, Joy Williams, Pierre Joris, Denis Johnson, Anthony Doerr, Rick Bass and Forrest Gander. Recent visiting readers have included Alice Notley, Srikanth Reddy, Peter Gizzi, Jennifer Moxley, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Aditi Machado, Dan Beachy-Quick, D.A. Powell, Adam Johnson, Kate Folk and Matvei Yankelevich
Scot Abels, Erin Belair, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Katie Fuller, Tim Griffith, Cynthia Hand, Al Heathcock, Meghan Kenny, Adrian Kien, Mary Pauline Lowry, Tyler McMahon, Jackie Polzin, JR Walsh, Karena Youtz