University of Montana, Missoula

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
1964
Location: 
Missoula, MT
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2-3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
20
Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2025
Application Fee: 
$60
Contact Name: 
Chris Dombrowski
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Brian Blanchfield, Sean Hill
Fiction: Emily Ruskovich
Nonfiction: Chris Dombrowski

2024–2025 Visiting Faculty: Heid Erdrich (Poetry), Max Loskutoff (Fiction), Amy Leach (Nonfiction)

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers fully-funded opportunities through teaching assistantships, and partial funding through scholarships, fellowships (including the Truman Capote Fellowship) and other awards.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 
Other Features: 

The program offers the student-run reading series Second Wind; an annual “Life after MFA” publishing conference; semester-long visiting writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; and a superb visiting writers series.

GRE scores are no longer an application requirement.

Graduates: 

Sandra Alcosser, Kim Barnes, Judy Blunt, Emily Danforth, Rick DeMarinis, William Finnegan (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Michael Fitzgerald, David Gilbert, Andrew Sean Greer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Shannon Hale, Frances Hwang, Megan Kruse, Melissa Kwasny, Aryn Kyle, J. Robert Lennon, Abi Maxwell, Neil McMahon, Deirdre McNamer, Colin Meloy, Janisse Ray, Steven Rinella, Sharma Shields, Brandon Shimoda, Kim Todd, Amanda Eyre Ward, James Welch, Robert Wrigley

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