MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Catherine Barnett, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nick Laird, 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
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.
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.