MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Rick Campbell, Cathy Linh Che, Lee Herrick, Faylita Hicks, Laura McCullough, Gailmarie Pahmeier, Brynn Saito, Brian Turner
Fiction: Brendan Basham, Alan Heathcock, Patrick Hicks, Peter Mountford, Claire Stanford, Lidia Yuknavitch
Nonfiction: Gayle Brandeis, Gina Frangello, Suzanne Roberts, Leta McCollough Seletzky, Kristal Sital, Lidia Yuknavitch, Arianne Zwartjes
WCYA: Traci Chee, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Joe McGee, Isabel Quintero, Kathryn Reiss, Jess Rinker, Lilliam Rivera
Sierra Nevada Review
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and August at Lake Tahoe. The program also occasionally hosts an optional international residency.
Each student works with an editor-in-the-field during their final mentoring semester. Editors include Anitra Budd, Rick Campbell, Peter Catapano, Gina Frangello, Laura Wetherington, Arianne Zwartjes, and others.
Students also have the opportunity to gain editorial experience by working on the Sierra Nevada Review.
The program hosts the Writers in the Woods series that brings in guest faculty. Past guest faculty include Carmen Maria Machado, Kim Addonizio, Luis Alberto Urrea, Natalie Handal, Patricia Smith, Tim O’Brien, Kaveh Akbar, Pam Houston, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Carolyn Forché, Nick Flynn, and more.
The deadline for fall admission is May 1; the deadline for spring admission is October 1.
Rebecca Evans, Faylita Hicks, Luke Johnson, Brooke King, La La Thompson