MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: edwin bodney, Richard Jackson, Vandana Khanna, Philip Metres, David Wojahn
Fiction: C. L. Clark, Miciah Bay Gault, Ellen Lesser, Robin MacArthur, Adam McOmber, Wanjikū wa Ngūgī, Hasanthika Sirisena, Ira Sukrungruang
Nonfiction: Chachi Hauser, Patrick Madden, Sue William Silverman, Hasanthika Sirisena, Ira Sukrungruang, Clifford Thompson
The program offers fellowships and merit awards.
Students attend two nine-day residencies each year, in July and January. Concurrent virtual residencies are also offered, along with overseas and domestic residencies held in unique cities of literary merit. Beginning with the Winter-Spring 2025 residency in January, residencies will be held at CalArts in Valencia, California.
For a Summer start, the priority scholarship deadline is April 1; the final deadline is May 1. For a Winter start, the priority deadline is October 1; the final deadline is November 1.
Daniel Abbott, Kelly Beard, Nickole Brown, Dominic Bucca, Ann Davila Cardinal, Sion Dayson, Miciah Bay Gault, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Allison Hong Merrill, Bob Hicok, Marya Hornbacher, LeAnne Howe, Wally Lamb, Robin MacArthur, Jo-Ann Mapson, Sarah McCraw Crow, Jennifer McGaha, Robin Oliveira, Melissa Pritchard, Donald Quist, Maureen Seaton, Tim Seibles, Mahtem Shiferraw, Liza Nash Taylor, Kali White VanBaale, Neela Vaswani, Michelle Webster-Hein, Jonathan White, Laura Warrell