MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: J. Michael Martinez
Fiction: Selena Anderson, Keenan Norris, Nick Taylor
Nonfiction: Brook McClurg, Thomas Moriarty, Keenan Norris
Playwriting/Screenwriting: Barnaby Dallas, Matthew Spangler
Recent Lurie Distinguished Authors-in-Residence include Faith Adiele, Ellen Bass, Cristina Garcia, Don George, Andrew Sean Greer, Jean Guerrero, ZZ Packer, and Vendela Vida. In 2024: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.
The program offers partial funding. Up to six Graduate Fellowships are offered to first-year students (with admission), covering the cost of one year’s California resident tuition. The program offers five to eight teaching associate positions to selected students in the second year of the program, as well as departmental and Graduate College scholarships, fellowships, and internships.
The program also offers a degree in playwriting/screenwriting.
The program requires students to study in two genres, with workshops and seminars offered in the late afternoon and evenings. The program also hosts readings, conversations, the Lurie Author-in-Residence program, and master classes in collaboration with the Center for Literary Arts. The program also offers internship and professional development courses in composition pedagogy, literary editing, and publishing. Finally, editorial team positions on the award-winning Reed Magazine are available for course credit.
Daniel Arnold, Sally Ashton, Darrell Dela Cruz, Carmen Gimenez, Erica Goss, Lara Gularte, Sheree Harvey, Mark Heinlein, Dave Kern, Samantha Lé, Vinnie Lopez, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Neli Moody, Anne Jennings Paris, Lan Phuong Pham, David Puma, C. J. Sage, Brian Wood, Marina Adair, Dina Ruiz, Sharon Simonson, Kym Cunningham, Lara Gularte, Jennifer Walieck.
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