MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Desiree C. Bailey, Abigail Chabitnoy, Peter Gizzi
Prose: Gabriel Bump, Edie Meidav, Sabina Murray, Jeff Parker
Visiting faculty is Okey Ndibe.
The program offers full funding through teaching associateships or one-year, non-teaching scholarships. Teaching associateships include a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a stipend of approximately $30,000. Some students receive non-working Rose Fellowships or MFA Fellowships, which carry stipends of approximately $30,000. Since 2019, 100 percent of matriculated students have received either associateships or fellowships for the duration of the three-year program. Paid internship opportunities are also available.
The program hosts a visiting writers series, the Writers Work career forum series, the Juniper Literary Festival, and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, in which students have the opportunity to participate as instructors at the Juniper Institute for Young Writers and Juniper Young Writers Online teen programs.
Sarah Ghazal Ali, Callum Angus, Mira Bartok, Gabriel Bump, Madeline ffitch, Rachel B. Glaser, Nathan Hill, Jeannie Hoag, Vida James, Joy Ladin, Dorothea Lasky, Andrea Lawlor, Okey Ndibe, Lisa Olstein, Seth Parker, Greg Purcell, Lev Raphael, Andrew Michael Roberts, Karen Skolfield, Natasha Trethewey, Arisa White, Wendy Xu, Jung Yun, Matthew Zapruder, Leni Zumas