MFA Program
Poetry: Joan Baranow, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Judy Halebsky, Brian Tierney, Maw Shein Win
Fiction: Kim Culbertson, Lee Kravetz, Hannah Michell, Claudia Morales, Shobha Rao
Nonfiction and Memoir: Thomas Burke, Marianne Rogoff
Performance Writing: Robert Bradford, Judy Halebsky
The program offers the Matthew Henderson Award which is an endowed scholarship awarded each year on the basis of merit and need. All students receive the MFA Scholarship of $300 each semester including the summer semester. Two student employment positions support cocurricular learning in teaching and publishing practicums.
The program offers an optional track in narrative medicine and frequent Creative Writing Retreats in which MFA students are invited to lead writing workshops.
Students attend two residencies each year, an eight-day residency in January and an 11-day residency in June, at the Dominican University of California campus in San Rafael. Students are also invited to attend monthly writing workshops either on campus or online.
The application deadline is December 1 for the January residency and May 1 for the June residency.