PhD Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Rebecca Dunham, Derrick Harriell
Fiction: Katharine 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 PhD in four to five years.
José Dalisay, Derrick Harriell, William (Trent) Hergenrader, Rachel Himmelherber, Caroline Knox, Soham Patel, Ching-In Chen, Phong Nguyen, Kyoko Mori, Stephen Powers, Rene Steinke, Ron Tanner