Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry, CNF
Residency type
Full
Program length
36 credits (2 years)
Financial Aid
Fellowships are available for qualified students.
Teaching opportunities
At the end of their second semester, students are eligible to apply to teach the undergraduate course “Introduction to Creative Writing.”
Editorial opportunities
Each Spring Semester, one MFA student interns as an editorial assistant at the literary journal The Threepenny Review, learning a variety of skills such as proofreading and evaluating manuscripts. Hunter pays a cool $5,000 to each intern.
Graduates
- Emily Bass MFA (CNF) 2009
- Ryan Berg MFA 2008
- Kaitlyn Greenidge MFA
- Sangamithra Iyer MFA (CNF) 2010
- Meng Jin MFA (Fiction) 2014
- Swati Khurana MFA (Fiction) 2015
- Phil Klay MFA (Fiction) 2011
- Nick Neely MFA (CNF)
- Chaitali Sen MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Gary Shteyngart MFA (Fiction) 2002
- Jamie L. Smith MFA 2020
- Jeannie Vanasco MFA (CNF) 2015
- Maria Venegas MFA (CNF) 2009
- Amy Yee MFA (Fiction)
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