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University of San Francisco [1]

MFA
San Francisco
CA
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
55
Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

Invisible City [2]

Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
30
Application Deadline: 
January 31, 2026
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: MK Chavez, D. A. Powell, Maw Shein Win
Fiction: Stephen Beachy, Lewis Buzbee, Kate Folk, Miah Jeffra, Laleh Khadivi, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Lauren Markham, K. M. Soehnlein, Susan Steinberg
Nonfiction: Susan Kiyo Ito, Miah Jeffra, Dave Madden, Lauren Markham

Visiting Writers include Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Cristina GarcĂ­a, Aya de Leon, and Monica West.

Website: 
https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing [3]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding. Some teaching assistantships and fellowships are offered.

Other Features: 

The program offers small workshop classes, one-on-one mentoring, professional development, a reading series with visiting writers, the Emerging Writers Festival, Life After the MFA symposia, and more.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
tmballard@usfca.edu [4]
Contact Name: 
Micah Ballard, Administrative Director

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/university_san_francisco

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/university_san_francisco [2] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/invisible_city [3] https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing [4] mailto:tmballard@usfca.edu