MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Matthew Zapruder
Fiction: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Nonfiction: Marilyn Abildskov
Visiting writers in 2026–2027 include Jonathan Escoffery, Zeina Hashem Beck, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, R. O. Kwon, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Tomas Moniz, Carvell Wallace, and Maw Shein Win.
The program offers partial funding with publishing fellowships, arts administration assistantships, and other on campus graduate assistantships. The program offers partially funded teaching fellowships in Composition and Creative Writing; all students also receive some form of waiver, fellowship, or scholarship.
The program hosts a reading series, a craft conversation series, a graduate-student reading series, retreats, and panels on teaching, publishing, and life after the MFA. Other features include funding to attend literary conferences and symposia.
The priority and international application deadline is January 8 and offers priority scholarship/fellowship consideration; the general application deadline is February 12.
Kehinde Badiru, Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, Teresa Bonham, Josh Braff, Lily Brown, Alix Christie, Jenny Drai, Rebecca Farivar, Alex Green, Gabe Gomez, Janet Hardy, Jennifer Jean, Jill Kolongowski, J.P. Lacrampe, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Caira Lima, Katherine Maxfield, Erin Lindsay McCab, Melissa Lion, Yuska Lutfi, Rusty Morrison, Risa Nye, Kaya Oakes, Robert Andrew Perez, Kiran Bains Sahota, Stella Santamaria, Michael Sikkema, Alexandra Silvas, Diana Jean Skeen, Mary Volmer, A. E. Watkins