Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Multimedia
Residency type
Full
Program length
2 years
Financial Aid
t is the goal of the Graduate Program in Literary Arts to provide financial aid to all accepted students each year. While aid is not guaranteed, we are proud of our track record in this area: during the last decade, all incoming students who applied for financial support received it.
Teaching opportunities
All graduate students in good standing who are considered appropriately qualified will be awarded teaching assistantships. Teaching assistants teach one undergraduate writing workshop per semester.
Cross-genre study
Yes
Graduates
- Gbolahan Adeola MFA (Fiction)
- Rosa Alcalá MFA (Poetry) 1996
- Kirstin Allio MFA 1999
- M. J. Andersen MA
- Desiree Bailey MFA (Fiction) 2015
- Jaimee W. Colbert MA
- Lucy Corin MFA (Fiction) 1994
- Edwidge Danticat MFA (Fiction) 1993
- Therese Eiben MA 1982
- Thomas Sayers Ellis MFA (Poetry) 1995
- Tony Eprile MA
- Percival Everett MA (Fiction) 1982
- Thalia Field MFA
- Thomas Glave MFA (Fiction) 1998
- Jaimy Gordon 1975
- Camille Guthrie MFA (Poetry) 1996
- Mark Halliday MA 1976
- Evelyn Hampton MFA (Fiction) 2012
- K. A. Hays MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Ben Lerner MFA
- Ben Marcus MFA 1991
- Bernard Farai Matambo MFA (Fiction) 2007
- Ange Mlinko MFA (Poetry) 1998
- Micaela Morrissette MFA (Fiction) 2011
- Ottessa Moshfegh MFA (Fiction) 2011
- John Proctor MFA
- Stacey Richter MFA (Fiction) 1992
- James Robison MFA 1979
- Joanna Ruocco MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Stacia Saint Owens MFA
- Kate Schatz MFA 2005
- Joanna Scott MA 1985
- Prageeta Sharma MFA (Poetry) 1995
- Jim Shepard MFA (Fiction) 1980
- Maya Sonenberg MA 1984
- Anna Joy Springer MFA (Fiction) 2002
- Ned Stuckey-French MA 1992
- S. Tourjee MFA 2012
- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi MFA (Fiction)
- Cynthia Weiner MFA
- Kevin Young MFA (Poetry) 1996
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