The fully online program, offered with an optional summer residency, emphasizes community-building among writers and features small class sizes, supportive faculty mentoring, and professional concentrations in publishing, teaching, and narrative medicine.

Foundational courses in essay and personal narratives, memoir and profile-writing are supplemented by a broad range of electives including nature and environmental writing, spiritual writing, producing the in-house literary magazine, food and travel writing, narrative medicine workshops, writing about culture, race, and identity; writing contemporary women’s stories, and writing about family. All students complete a yearlong thesis project and select a professional track in publishing, teaching creative writing, or narrative medicine. Students in the five-course narrative medicine track earn a Certificate in Narrative Medicine along with the MFA in Creative Nonfiction.

The MFA runs a literary journal, Multiplicity Magazine, curated inside the elective course, Multiplicity Studio. Part-time options available.