MA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Rebecca Dunham, Derrick Harriell
Fiction: Katherine Beutner, Valerie Laken
This program offers teaching assistantships, fellowships, and awards.
The program hosts several internal writing contests with cash awards, and the United We Read Graduate Student/Faculty Reading Series and the Visiting Writers Series. Visiting writers and poets have included Charles Bernstein, Daniel Borzutzky, Robert Olen Butler, Nicole Cooley, Juan Felipe Herrera, Adam Johnson, Nega Mezlekia, Kyoko Mori, Paisley Rekdal, Peter Rock, Craig Santos Perez, Carmen Giménez Smith, Ron Tanner, Lysley Tenorio, and C. Dale Young, among many others.
Students usually complete their MA in two years.
Henri Cole, Susan Firer, Janet Jennerjohn, Melissa Olson, Bianca Spriggs, Ghassan Zeineddine