MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Dilruba Ahmed, Sally Ball, Rita Banerjee, Zeina Hashem Beck, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Marianne Boruch, CM Burroughs, Marianne Chan, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Daisy Fried, Jennifer Grotz, Jane Huffman, A. Van Jordan, Sally Keith, Christine Kitano, Steven Kleinman, Esther Lin, Maurice Manning, Airea Matthews, Pablo Medina, Matthew Olzmann, Ben Purkert, Nicholas Regiacorte, Martha Rhodes, Jason Schneiderman, Alan Shapiro, Brian Teare, Dan Tobin, Alan Williamson, Connie Voisine, Yanyi, C. Dale Young
Fiction: Deepa Anappara, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Dean Bakopoulos, Natalie Bakopoulos, Robert Boswell, Karen Brennan, Liam Callanan, Christopher Castellani, Dan Chaon, Tessa Fontaine, Lauren Groff, David Haynes, Tim Horvath, Vanessa Hua, T. Geronimo Johnson, Margot Livesey, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé, Akil Kumarasamy, Edie Meidav, Nina Swamidoss McConigley, Ana Menéndez, Antonya Nelson, Alix Ohlin, Peter Orner, Michael Parker, Hanna Pylväinen, Elizabeth Poliner, Robin Romm, Carter Sickels, Marisa Silver, SJ Sindu, Dominic Smith, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Lysley Tenorio, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Laura van den Berg
Creative Nonfiction: Rita Banerjee, Stephanie Grant, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Elena Passarello, Sarah Perry, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, Mike Scalise
The program offers partial funding through MFA grants, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship, grants and scholarships from the Holden Fund for Diversity, the Rodney Jack Scholarship, the Lisel Mueller Scholarship, the Renate Wood Scholarship, Levis Funds, and more.
Students attend two 10-day residencies each year, in January and July, at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in the winter, and on the Warren Wilson College campus in Swannanoa, North Carolina, in the summer.
The application deadline is March 1 for the July residency and September 1 for the January residency.