MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: David Groff, Rosanna Young Oh
Fiction: Salar Abdoh, Lyn Di Iorio, Keith Gandal, Soraya Palmer, Dalia Sofer
Nonfiction: Mikhal Dekel, David Groff, Emily Raboteau, Lucas Iberico Lozada
YA Fiction: Mayra Cuevas
Screenwriting/Drama: Robert Barron, Marc Palmieri
Second-year students may apply to the Teaching Composition Program to teach undergraduates as an adjunct instructor. The English Department offers fellowships and prizes at the annual English Awards Ceremony held in the spring.
The program also offers coursework in drama, screenwriting, and YA fiction.
This program features a professional series with publishers, editors, and agents. The program hosts the Spotlight on Writers Series; a monthly student-organized reading series, The MFA Reading Series; and the Langston Hughes Festival, in collaboration with the college’s Black Studies Program. There is also an opportunity to contribute and to take storytelling/archives classes in the Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project sponsored by the LUCE Foundation.
The application deadline is February 15 for fall semester start.