MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Christine Casson, Mary Kovaleski-Byrnes, Porsha Olayiwola, Daniel Tobin
Fiction: Julia Glass, Paul Harding, Steve Himmer, Kim McLarin, Frederick Reiken, Mako Yoshikawa
Nonfiction: Jabari Asim, Alden Jones, Jerald Walker
The program offers partial tuition scholarships. Some student can receive half or full tuition fellowships. All students’ funding is automatically renewed as long as they fulfill requirements for being a student in good standing.
The program hosts a reading series, an alumni and faculty reading series, a publishing series, and a scholar research series. Students also have the opportunity to take publishing courses and work with local high school students through the emersonWRITES program.
The priority deadline is February 1. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until April 1.
Ciera Burch, Kirstin Chen, Elisa Gabbert, Matthew Goodman, Simon Jimenez, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Kenan Orhan, Matt Rasmussen, Kathleen Rooney, Matthew Salesses, Asako Serizawa, Urban Waite, Laura Van Den Berg