MFA Program
Mel Allen, Leanna James Blackwell, Sari Botton, Adam Braver, Melanie Brooks, Jennifer DeLeon, Áine Greaney, Shahnaz Habib, Ann Hood, Allan Hunter, Susan Ito, Karol Jackowski, Yi Shun Lai, Julia Lythcott-Haims, Anna Mantzaris, Dinty W. Moore, Meredith O’Brien, Lisa Romeo, Tom Shea, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Kate Whouley
Full financial aid is available for students taking six or more credits.
The program, with a home base on the campus of the historically women’s college Bay Path, features small class sizes, a supportive community, close faculty mentoring, internship opportunities, and a summer creative writing field seminar in Ireland.
It offers core courses in memoir, narrative journalism, and the personal essay, and includes electives in food and travel writing; writing about culture, race, and identity; health, narrative medicine, and social justice writing; family histories; nature and environmental writing; personal profile writing; and contemporary women’s stories. Professional tracks in publishing, teaching creative writing, and narrative medicine are also available, as well as a year-long thesis course.
The MFA runs an online literary journal, Multiplicity Magazine, which launched in the spring of 2020. Part-time options available.