Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry
Residency type
Full
Program length
48 semester hours (3 years)
Financial Aid
MFA students at ASU are among the best-funded in the nation: currently, every poet and fiction writer is offered a teaching assistantship and a Piper Fellowship, both renewable for each of the program’s three years. We also offer a limited number of research assistantships, and the Swarthout Prize.
Teaching opportunities
All qualified incoming students are offered a Taship
Cross-genre study
Electives may be taken out of genre, with the permission of the instructor
Graduates
- Jeff Albers MFA (Fiction) 2014
- Aimée Baker MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Dexter L. Booth MFA 2012
- Adrienne Celt MFA (Fiction) 2012
- Dorothy Chan MFA (Poetry)
- Katie Cortese MFA (Fiction) 2006
- Marian Crotty MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Oliver De La Paz MFA (Poetry) 1999
- Matthew Gavin Frank MFA (Poetry/CNF) 2006
- Kevin Haworth MFA 1997
- Caitlin Horrocks MFA (Fiction) 2007
- Allegra Hyde MFA (Fiction) 2015
- W. Todd Kaneko MFA (Fiction) 2006
- Ruth Ellen Kocher MFA (Poetry) 1994
- Naira Kuzmich MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Sam Martone MFA
- Claire McQuerry MFA (Poetry) 2008
- Bonnie Nadzam MFA (Fiction) 2004
- Dustin Pearson MFA (Poetry)
- Steve Scafidi MFA
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