MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Mark Bibbins, Elaine Equi, Robert Polito, Camille Rankine, Laurie Sheck
Fiction: Ann-Marie Hood, Shelley Jackson, Mira Jacob, Luis Jaramillo, Alexandra Kleeman, James Lasdun, Sigrid Nunez, Dale Peck, John Reed, Helen Schulman, Darcey Steinke, Stephen Wright
Nonfiction: Susan Cheever, Zia Jaffrey, Suzannah Lessard, Honor Moore, Benjamin Taylor, Brenda Wineapple
Writing for Children and Young Adults: Coe Booth, Caron Levis, Andrea Pinkney, Tor Seidler
The program offers partial funding through fellowships, as well as teaching, research, and program assistantships.
The program also offers a degree in writing for children and young adults.
The program hosts weekly readings, lectures, forums, and public programs with agents, editors, publishers, teachers, writers, and partner literary organizations like the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, the Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers, the National Book Critics Circle, the National Book Foundation, Publishing Triangle, and the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators.
Other features include more than thirty free supplemental short courses, and the Writing & Publishing Lab, which offers opportunities to work with New York publishers and literary organizations to gain hands-on skills in multi-platform narrative and production.
Alysia Abbott, Christopher Beha, Jennifer Benka, Mark Bibbins, Keisha Bush, Kacen Callender, Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Jennifer Close, Alice Eve Cohen, Stephanie Danler, Safia Elhillo, Siobhan Fallon, Miranda Field, Jenny Han, Zakiya Dalia Harris, Mira Jacob, Amy Lawless, David Samuel Levinson, Douglas A. Martin, Patricia McCormick, Allison Moorer, Danielle Pafunda, Sufjan Stevens, Haley Tanner, Justin Taylor, Kathleen Ossip, Rachel Zolf