MFA Program
See writers who attended this programNancy Agabian, Mel Allen, Jennifer Baker, Melanie Brooks, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado, Shahnaz Habib, Karol Jackowski, Yi Shun Lai, Anna Mantzaris, Meredith O’Brien, Heidi Fettig Parton, Mick Powell, Kate Whouley
Full financial aid is available for students taking three or more credits.
The fully online program, offered with an optional summer residency, emphasizes community-building among writers and features small class sizes, supportive faculty mentoring, and professional concentrations in publishing, teaching, and narrative medicine.
Foundational courses in essay and personal narratives, memoir and profile-writing are supplemented by a broad range of electives including nature and environmental writing, spiritual writing, producing the in-house literary magazine, food and travel writing, narrative medicine workshops, writing about culture, race, and identity; writing contemporary women’s stories, and writing about family. All students complete a yearlong thesis project and select a professional track in publishing, teaching creative writing, or narrative medicine. Students in the five-course narrative medicine track earn a Certificate in Narrative Medicine along with the MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
The MFA runs a literary journal, Multiplicity Magazine, curated inside the elective course, Multiplicity Studio. Part-time options available.