MFA Program
MFA Program
Program Established:
1996
Location:
New York, NY
Genre:
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Residency:
Full
Duration:
2 Years
Incoming Class Size:
40-60
Application Deadline:
December 18, 2019
Application Fee:
$110
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Contact E-mail:
Contact Name:
Zachary Sussman
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Catherine Barnett, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Ed Hirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Deborah Landau, Sharon Olds, Matthew Rohrer
Fiction: Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Katie Kitamura, Hari Kunzru, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, Darin Strauss
Creative Nonfiction: Hari Kunzru, Darin Strauss
Funding/Employment Opportunities:
The program offers partial funding. All students receive graduate fellowships that range from half-tuition remission to full-tuition remission with generous stipends. All students are also offered undergraduate teaching positions during their second year of study.
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Other Features:
The program hosts a reading series, a student-run Emerging Writers Series, and a master-class series, and includes opportunities to meet with agents and editors.