University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Fellowships to teach in Alabama prisons are available.
Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry, CNF
Residency type
Full
Program length
48 semester hours
Financial Aid
Students admitted to the MFA program are offered up to four years of support.
Teaching opportunities
One begins one's teaching life at Alabama as an instructor of First-year Writing. All through this first year of teaching, GTAs receive ongoing training and support from the department's composition specialists. After gaining that experience, GTAs usually teach 200 level Literature courses.
Editorial opportunities
The Black Warrior Review is run entirely by MFA students.
Cross-genre study
Cross genre work is strongly encouraged
Graduates
- Reem Abu-Baker MFA (Fiction)
- Kendra Allen MFA (CNF) 2020
- Sarah Blackman MFA (Fiction/Poetry) 2007
- Chase Burke MFA
- Christopher Chambers MFA (Fiction) 1999
- Tom Chiarella MFA 1987
- Jill Christman MFA 1999
- Maraya Cornell MFA 2005
- Jennifer S. Davis MFA 2001
- Tony Earley MFA
- Andrew Farkas MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Jenny Gropp Hess MFA 2012
- Jessica Hollander MFA
- B. J. Hollars MFA (CNF) 2010
- E. E. Hussey MFA (Fiction) 2021
- Honoree Fanonne Jeffers MFA (Poetry) 1996
- Matt Jones MFA
- Lili Loofbourow MFA (Fiction) 2006
- Nabila Lovelace MFA (Poetry) 2018
- Maurice Manning MFA (Poetry) 1999
- Ander Monson MFA (Fiction/Poetry) 2002
- Brian Oliu MFA (CNF) 2009
- Jenifer Sang Eun Park MFA (Poetry) 2016
- Colin Rafferty MFA
- Catie Rosemurg MFA
- Hugh Sheehy MFA
- Lucas Southworth MFA 2009
- Jiaming Tang MFA
- Valerie Vogrin MFA 1991
- Brad Watson MFA 1985
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