Warren Wilson College
Asheville, NC
Ours was the first low-residency MFA program, founded in 1976 by Ellen Bryant Voigt. The program moved to Warren Wilson College in 1981.
Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry
Program length
2 years (5 residencies)
Financial Aid
Need based: students must file a FAFSA
Graduates
- Dilruba Ahmed MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Lauren Alwan MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Laurie Baker MFA (Fiction) 2000
- Catherine Barnett MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Reginald Dwayne Betts MFA (Poetry) 2010
- Justin Bigos MFA (Poetry) 2008
- Robin Black MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Adrian Blevins MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Tommye Blount MFA (Poetry) 2013
- Deborah Brown MFA (Poetry) 1991
- Chris Bursk MFA (Poetry) 1988
- Shannon Cain MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Joseph J. Capista MFA (Poetry) 2016
- Victoria Chang MFA (Poetry) 2005
- K. L. Cook MFA (Fiction) 1991
- Joanne Dominique Dwyer MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Cornelius Eady MFA (Poetry) 1985
- Zack Finch MFA 2003
- Brandel France de Bravo MFA (Poetry) 1995
- Joan Frank MFA (Fiction) 1996
- Bryan Furuness MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Richard Garcia MFA (Poetry) 1994
- Devon Halliday MFA (Fiction) 2024
- Matt Hart MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Adrianne Harun MFA (Fiction) 1996
- Samantha Hunt MFA (Fiction) 1999
- Perry Janes MFA (Poetry) 2019
- Jenny Johnson MFA (Poetry) 2011
- A. Van Jordan MFA (Poetry) 1998
- Anu Kandikuppa MFA (Fiction) 2015
- Judith Kitchen MFA (Poetry) 1983
- Sonya Larson MFA (Fiction) 2018
- Krys Lee MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Terri Leker MFA (Fiction)
- Gary Copeland Lilley MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Jacquelyn Malone MFA (Poetry) 1978
- Pamela Mandell MFA (Fiction) 1992
- Joy Manesiotis MFA (Poetry) 1986
- Corey Marks MFA (Poetry) 1994
- Lara Markstein MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Jamaal May MFA (Poetry) 2011
- Kerrin McCadden MFA (Poetry) 2014
- Nathan McClain MFA (Poetry) 2013
- Nancy Mitchell MFA (Poetry) 1991
- Elizabeth Mosier MFA (Fiction) 1991
- Scott Nadelson MFA (Fiction) 2011
- Hieu Minh Nguyen MFA (Poetry) 2019
- Debra Nystrom MFA (Poetry) 1980
- Meghan O'Rourke MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Achy Obejas MFA (Fiction) 1993
- Matthew Olzmann MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Koye Oyedeji MFA (Fiction) 2021
- Emily Pease MFA (Fiction) 2000
- Gail Peck MFA (Poetry) 1987
- Adrienne Perry MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Greg Pierce MFA (Fiction) 2012
- Jay Ponteri MFA (Fiction) 2002
- Nathan Poole MFA (Fiction) 2010
- Michael Pritchett MFA (Fiction) 1992
- Alicia Jo Rabins MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Andrés Reconco MFA (Fiction) 2018
- Mattox Roesch MFA (Fiction) 2010
- Richard Schmitt MFA (Fiction) 1997
- Kathryn Schwille MFA (Fiction) 1999
- Rebecca Seiferle MFA (Poetry) 1989
- Peggy Shinner MFA (Fiction) 1994
- Marisa Silver MFA (Fiction) 1996
- Idrissa Simmonds MFA (Fiction) 2019
- Steven Simoncic MFA (Fiction) 2002
- Emily Sinclair MFA (Fiction) 2014
- Rose Skelton MFA 2017
- Erin Stalcup MFA (Fiction) 2004
- Heidy Steidlmayer MFA (Poetry) 2000
- Jeneva Burroughs Stone MFA (Poetry) 2007
- Nomi Stone MFA (Poetry) 2017
- Lee Strickland MFA (Fiction) 2002
- Elaine Terranova MFA (Poetry) 1977
- Mary Jo Thompson MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Daniel Tobin MFA (Poetry) 1990
- Joe Wenderoth MFA (Poetry) 1993
- Tracy Winn MFA (Fiction) 2004
- Rolf Albert Yngve MFA (Fiction) 2012
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