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Literary arts.

The Literary Arts graduate program offers tracks in fiction, poetry and digital/cross-disciplinary.

Students take eight courses, half in writing and half in elective studies, over a two–year period to ensure maximum time for writing. In general, students take workshops with two and sometimes three different faculty writers in their respective genres.

(Note: The MFA in Playwriting is offered by Theatre and Performance Studies.)

Students often select electives such as workshops that focus on literary translation or on special topics (e.g., narrative strategies), but may also take studio and performing arts courses, and classes from all academic fields. A creative thesis is submitted in the final semester. The program numbers approximately twenty-five students in any given academic year.

Additional Resources

Performance-focused seminar room/laboratory; literary arts seminar room; Clerestory magazine; Writers on Writing reading series; writers in residence program; Geri Braman Hill Lecture; C.D. Wright Lecture, Hawkes, Honig and Waldrop Prizes in Literary Arts; John Hay Library's Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays.

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Application requirements, gre subject:.

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Writing sample:.

Required (must be in one genre). The writing sample is the most important part of the application.

Dates/Deadlines

Application deadline, tuition and funding.

The Graduate School provides a Financial Aid package in the first year of study covering tuition, health fee and health insurance and a full fellowship stipend. In year two, those students who are in good standing and are appropriate for the classroom are offered a two-semester teaching assistantship, which covers tuition, health fee and health insurance, and provides a stipend.

Completion Requirements

Three courses in creative writing workshops, four graduate–level electives, and a thesis.

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2023 Creative Writing MFA Applicants Forum

By MDP March 17, 2022 in Literary

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I've now received CNF decisions on all of my schools: UPittsburgh, UMinnesota, UIowa, Louisiana State, and UArizona were all rejections...But! I was accepted at Ohio State (my top preference)! I am ve

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Received an acceptance email from BU this morning for poetry. Insane relief after getting a couple rejections in a row this last week.

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annachristine

Hi! I'm really considering applying to Brown University's Cross-Discplinary/Digital Writing concentration in the Literary Arts MFA. I already have a studio MFA but I get so excited thinking about that school/program, lmfao.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone here went to Brown in their undergrad?

Hey! Excited to be applying for fiction MFAs this upcoming fall. Was wondering if anyone happens to know what the application fee is for University of Miami and if they have fee waivers available? I can't seem to find the information on their website. Much obliged :)

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lenagator1997

Hey Everyone!

I am still at UNH, so if anyone has questions about what it's like as a first year creative nonfiction student or a MFA student in general let me know!

If I am being honest I had a real rough first semester, but the second semester made up for it. In Fall 2022 I am still working at Research and Development, the Writing Center and TA-ing with a professor of mine, as well as writing my Masters Thesis. This is the advice stemming from my own experience only I would give to someone now being one year into my program:

1. The first semester is when you begin to transition into the grad-school writing life and into your writing community, but it may not be easy. Putting out my first essay (to a mostly second year cohort!) was rather scary because it was the first impression of my writing I gave to my peers and professor. This is where the rose colored glasses come off and the real work begins. Just be patient with others and yourself.

2. Look out for professional development opportunities outside of the classroom. Try for that Writing Center job you saw in that email or even grant writing. Even if down the line you realize you don't want to do it for a career, the experience will get you far and even help you make a little money. Yes the rumors are true, everyone is kinda looking out for the same careers post graduation. Everyone is looking to have that cushy tenure track job "teaching," (even if they've never done it in their entire lives or admit to hating undergraduates) or are looking to be the Editor and Chief of Penguin Random House. People will most likely brag and use every political tool they have to get ahead, but don't let it get you down. Think outside the lines, be yourself and keep on your own path. I personally thought I would be a terrible editor for the Writing Center, but it ended up becoming a passion of mine.

3. Find that one professor in your corner. You won't like every single person on the faculty, but you just need one who sees you and your writing for what it really is.

4. Even if you don't become extremely close with your cohort, if they respect you within the classroom as a writer, that's all that matters. In my experience, that whole "you will find friends for life," thing was an inflated unrealistic myth. (But if that aspect is important to you in an MFA program, then that's fine too.)

5. You might not all graduate together. I personally had no idea about this until recently. Everyone except for me extended their time in our two year program to 2.5 years and I am apparently the only one graduating in May 2023. Just don't be shocked.

6. Take that literature class your advisor warned you about. I took 2 master's level literature classes and not only did I get to know some awesome people outside of the MFA classroom, studying literature also helped my creative writing! I am also admittedly not an MFA purist. I describe myself as a academic/artist hybrid so I believe in cross-departmental study.

7. Take advantage of alumni from your program. One published alumni subbed for my nonfiction class once last semester and he is now helping me out with some aspects of my Masters Thesis!

8. In the end, it's your writing. Just because they are your professors or second/ third years doesn't mean they have greater authority then you about your voice, style, POV ect. In the end, you get to call the play.

Again, this is small sage advice from one person, but I hope it helps!

RosA-R , koechophe and jjooeeyy

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Heya folks. I've been a reader for my college's literary magazine over the summer. The vast, vast majority of pieces I read are from MFA graduates or MFA candidates. Being in that seat where I have to say yes or no to incoming pieces has taught me a lot about what the difference between a "yes" piece is and a "no" piece is (and for reference, there have been dozens of "no" pieces and only like 2 "yes" ones... which I think is a lot like MFA applications lol).

Here's some advice if you're still working on your writing sample:

-Good, solid prose is an entry requirement. I honestly thought literary magazine submissions would be filled with a lot of really mediocre writers, but they aren't. The writers are, for the most part, fabulous, and have very solid prose. You can tell these people know the craft and know the basics and principals. The writing is clean and polished from a prose standpoint. A lot of people feel like that's not important, but from my experience, it's more like it goes without saying that you already know your stuff.

-... but good, solid prose isn't enough to get you noticed. This actually sort of threw me, since I always thought the person with the best prose, mechanically speaking, would be the "winner." But as I'm reading, that's not the case, and in fact, one of my "yes" recommendations wasn't actually quite as solid on prose (it was still good, but it wasn't as amazing as some of the other ones I've seen.) Basically, prose seems to be a "you must be this tall to enter" line, not the end-all be-all for good writing.

-Your writing needs to feel like it is contributing to the literary conversation. I've spent a lot of time thinking about what made me say "yes" to the few I've said yes to. At the end of the day, it comes down to whether the piece felt like it had something interesting to say. I read a lot of pieces about popular topics which treated those popular topics... pretty much like everyone else does. They were well-written, and they were genuine, but it felt like a lot of them were saying things the same way everyone else has said them.

I doubt everyone says yes for the same reasons, but the reasons I find myself saying yes are based mostly on:

Does this feel like a new insight? Does it feel like they're approaching the topic from a new angle/perspective? Does the work appropriately embrace complexity and nuance? Is there enough ambiguity in the piece to allow it to be analyzed, while also having enough specificity to feel intentional? The pieces I read which got a yes just went a hair further than the rejected ones. They were just a bit more unique, enough to make me think after reading them. I hope some of this helps. I also highly recommend looking for opportunities to volunteer for a literary magazine. It's been one of the single best experiences for making me look at my writing in a harsher light.

Best of luck!

ElfieG , 1badgloop , Ydrl and 2 others

Hey all. Application season is right around the corner... Anyone starting to feel the pressure? (And/or frantically trying to write the best short story they've ever written ? )

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strawberrybaldwin

just out of a simple curiosity, what's the consensus on switching programs? like if one was admitted somewhere but decided that maybe they wanted to go elsewhere after all? is that frowned upon?

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On 8/30/2022 at 12:31 PM, strawberrybaldwin said: just out of a simple curiosity, what's the consensus on switching programs? like if one was admitted somewhere but decided that maybe they wanted to go elsewhere after all? is that frowned upon?

I did it and now I'm at Iowa. If a program isn't right for you that's okay. Anyone who doesn't think so can go suck rocks.

Hope everyone is having a decent time putting together their portfolios and applications! This is my first time applying to programs, so I'm fairly nervous. I'm applying to 8 schools, all fully funded, with 4 being "higher ranked" programs and the other 4 being smaller/"underrated" programs.

I have my poems completed, but I need to really tidy up my SOP and get another letter of recommendation, (been out of school for 7 years eeep!)

On 10/23/2022 at 9:00 PM, jjooeeyy said: Hey all, Hope everyone is having a decent time putting together their portfolios and applications! This is my first time applying to programs, so I'm fairly nervous. I'm applying to 8 schools, all fully funded, with 4 being "higher ranked" programs and the other 4 being smaller/"underrated" programs. I have my poems completed, but I need to really tidy up my SOP and get another letter of recommendation, (been out of school for 7 years eeep!)

Hi! Fellow poet here. I was in the thread a little last year but didn’t end up applying due to health reasons. Now, I am back to try again. One thing that is helping me with my SOP is printing out my manuscript. Then I read it as if I have never seen it before (or try to). It helped me see some common themes or topics in the poems.

How are applications going for everyone? Anyone else have a Dec 1 deadline? I am worried about the program processing all my documents and transcripts in time.

Hi everyone! I just finished my applications to 16 different schools (mostly in poetry, a few for poetry and fiction) and am waiting on fee waivers for my last 3 applications. This has been such an incredibly stressful, daunting and nerve-wracking process so far and we are only just beginning! I endlessly workshopped my SOP and writing sample with two professors and I am still double-checking every so often to make sure I didn't make a mess of anything. How does everyone survive the waiting process!?

I also wanted to say that I was able to secure fee waivers for every program so far (other than the final 3) and if anyone would like help with the language to use when asking for waivers or what I had to use as proof of financial hardship, I am more than happy to help!

On 11/20/2022 at 9:08 PM, Veneralia said: Hi everyone! I just finished my applications to 16 different schools (mostly in poetry, a few for poetry and fiction) and am waiting on fee waivers for my last 3 applications. This has been such an incredibly stressful, daunting and nerve-wracking process so far and we are only just beginning! I endlessly workshopped my SOP and writing sample with two professors and I am still double-checking every so often to make sure I didn't make a mess of anything. How does everyone survive the waiting process!? I also wanted to say that I was able to secure fee waivers for every program so far (other than the final 3) and if anyone would like help with the language to use when asking for waivers or what I had to use as proof of financial hardship, I am more than happy to help!

Congrats on finishing 16 applications already!! The waiting sure is difficult but at least you don’t have to worry about sending apps in during the holidays. Is this your first round of apps?

5 hours ago, Leeannitha said: Congrats on finishing 16 applications already!! The waiting sure is difficult but at least you don’t have to worry about sending apps in during the holidays. Is this your first round of apps?

Yes! I am just finishing my first undergraduate degree this semester, as a non-traditional student, and I focused on English and Creative Writing. I will definitely apply again next round if I don't end up anywhere this time--I know people often get in on subsequent rounds, but hey, fingers crossed and all that.

On 11/23/2022 at 11:00 PM, Veneralia said:

Best of luck to you!! With apps and the rest of your undergrad classes. Which programs are you applying to? Maybe we have some in common.

I’m applying to:

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Umass Amherst

Helen Zell program

& maybe Northwestern?? All for poetry ?

22 hours ago, Leeannitha said: Best of luck to you!! With apps and the rest of your undergrad classes. Which programs are you applying to? Maybe we have some in common. I’m applying to: Michener NWP Iowa Writers’ Workshop NYU Umass Amherst Syracuse Helen Zell program & maybe Northwestern?? All for poetry ?

I'm applying to all of those except for NYU, Umass and Syracuse! I live like twenty minutes from Amherst though and it's lovely here! I just want to move to a new place. I'm also applying in poetry. Would be so rad to cross paths!

alligator mississippiensis

Hi friends! Happy holidays and happy application cycle!

I am applying to Michener and I'm a little confused about the process. I submitted my ApplyTexas online application and got an email from UT, Austin telling me they received my app. I set up my MyStatus account but now I cant figure out how to upload my additional materials (personal statement and manuscript ext.) Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance!

On 11/28/2022 at 12:34 AM, alligator mississippiensis said: Hi friends! Happy holidays and happy application cycle! I am applying to Michener and I'm a little confused about the process. I submitted my ApplyTexas online application and got an email from UT, Austin telling me they received my app. I set up my MyStatus account but now I cant figure out how to upload my additional materials (personal statement and manuscript ext.) Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance!

Hi sorry just saw this!!! I know the deadline is approaching. Go to your my status page and click the “admissions” tab. It should have sections to upload each part. This is what mine looks like. (I am on mobile so I hope this picture shows up)

I think you have to click “details” first on the right, then it will take you to a separate page to upload.

writinggrad

I had a hard time figuring out underrated programs. Which ones did you apply to?

I got an email from FSU about an 'application update' and jumped out of my skin (as if I didn't just apply last week). it was only letting me know the app is now under department review. It's gonna be a longggg three months until decisions come out, lol

just wanted to jump into this forum and note my presence. in addition to PhD programs in English, i am applying this cycle to Michener, New Writer's Project, UC Irvine, Litowitz @ Northwestern, Brown, and UVA. all are for poetry. wishing everyone a jolly and warm december!

6 hours ago, issys134 said: hi y'all, just wanted to jump into this forum and note my presence. in addition to PhD programs in English, i am applying this cycle to Michener, New Writer's Project, UC Irvine, Litowitz @ Northwestern, Brown, and UVA. all are for poetry. wishing everyone a jolly and warm december!

Good luck to you!

23 hours ago, notebook said: I got an email from FSU about an 'application update' and jumped out of my skin (as if I didn't just apply last week). it was only letting me know the app is now under department review. It's gonna be a longggg three months until decisions come out, lol

Do you think this means that programs are already meeting and going over applications? Was the deadline last week? The whole process is very mysterious…

steins rose

hi everyone! i just discovered this forum and i'm so happy to find some community!

i applied to brown, syracuse, ucsd, u of o, and uw this year. it's my first time applying so very scary!!

wishing you all luck as you get those apps in. looking forward to tons of acceptances for everyone <3

stannecarson

Hi y'all! Here to offer well wishes as the December 15th deadline is looming... I'm frantically revising (and essentially rewriting) my SOP for each school, which is maybe the worst part of this whole process, IMO. Each school wants a different length, different questions answered, and then I feel the need to research each school's resources and opportunities to oh-so subtly mention them. At least it'll be (mostly) over soon! Best of luck! ?

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Literary Arts

Choosing courses.

You are required to complete nine courses to earn an MFA: two courses in semesters 1 and 4 of study; and 2.5 courses in semesters 2 and 3 of study. In semesters 1, 2 & 3, you are expected to take the graduate workshop in your track (or if in the digital/cross-disciplinary track, a relevant workshop agreed upon by you and the Director of Graduate Studies); and in semester 4, you are expected to complete the thesis independent study. In semesters 2 & 3, you are expected to take the half-credit course offered in pedagogy training. In all four semesters, you are expected to take one elective.

During each of your first three semesters, you are expected to enroll in the graduate workshop in your respective track. This course must be taken for regular course credit; the requirement may not be fulfilled through auditing. In the fourth semester, you are expected to enroll in LITR 2410 – Graduate Thesis Independent Study. You have quite a bit of flexibility when choosing the second course in each of your four semesters while working toward the MFA.

In the spring semester of the first year and the fall semester of the second year, you'll take 2 and 1/2 courses for credit: the Graduate Workshop; an elective and a half-credit course in pedagogy. The first-year pedagogy course must be taken before being approved to serve as a Teaching Assistant in the second year.

Non-Writing Courses

Many students choose to take their non-writing courses via literature departments. If you plan to seek a PhD after completing this degree, you may want to consider studying literature in the English Department, Comparative Literature, the language departments, Theatre and Performance Studies, or in Modern Culture and Media. You are not limited to literature courses; the department will support your choice as long as you feel the course will help you in your writing. Students in the past have studied a second language, other arts, such as painting and sculpture, and a wide variety of academic disciplines. Once you venture into such territory, you have to work a little harder to get good advice about courses. Some basic rules are:

Attend many classes during the first week of classes (no choice made before school starts need be your final decision).
Check out the books through the bookstore (or through the online syllabus, if posted).
Talk to the instructors (or write to them electronically). If their courses don’t seem right for you, they may suggest alternatives.
Talk to students, both undergraduates and graduates. Many may have had useful experiences with the instructor of the class.

Course Transfer

Should you wish to do so and should you receive approval from the Director of Graduate Studies, you may include up to one transfer course toward your degree. This may be a graduate-level course completed before you started at Brown (but one that has not counted toward another degree); or you may seek permission to take up to one graduate-level course through an exchange program established between Brown and Harvard. You should discuss this option with the Director of Graduate Studies as soon you as you think that you may wish to pursue this option.

RISD Courses

In addition, you may take graduate-level elective courses through an exchange program established between Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. Again, discuss this with the Director of Graduate Studies as soon as you think that this may be an option worth pursuing.

Audit Courses

So long as you are enrolled for the right number of courses for grade credit, you may also take up to one course per semester for audit credit.

Brown University MA in Creative Writing

How much does a master’s in creative writing from brown cost, brown graduate tuition and fees.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$59,254	$59,254
Fees	$1,109	$1,109

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Brown master’s student diversity for creative writing, male-to-female ratio.

Women made up around 76.9% of the creative writing students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 66.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 30.8% of creative writing master’s degree recipients at Brown in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 24%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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News from Brown

Brown mfa students win prestigious kennedy center playwriting awards.

Graduate student playwrights Nkenna Akunna, Seayoung Yim and Christopher Lindsay were recognized with national awards for writing creative scripts that tackle difficult subjects such as racism, misogyny and “fatphobia.”

Left to right: Seayoung Yim (Photo by Laura Dux), Christopher Lindsay and Nkenna Akunna

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Three students enrolled in Brown master of fine arts programs captured prestigious national awards for outstanding playwriting and acting at the 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival , held virtually throughout the spring.

Each year, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., invites 18,000 students from colleges and universities across the U.S. to participate in workshops and stage productions, recognizing some of the finest festival talent with awards. Through the center’s National Playwriting Program, students who write for the stage have a chance to win all-expenses-paid professional development opportunities, monetary support or active memberships in the Dramatists Guild of America.

Nkenna Akunna, a Brown MFA student in playwriting, received two awards for “ Good Fit ,” a dark, absurdist play that comments on the limits and liberties assigned to people of different identities. She won a $1,000 first-place Rosa Parks Playwriting Award , which recognizes outstanding one-act plays about social justice or civil rights written by students and faculty, and a $500 second-place Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award , which honors outstanding plays that speak to the African American experience.

Seayoung Yim, also Brown MFA student in playwriting, won a $500 second-place Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award , which is given to exceptional plays written by students of Asian heritage. The award was for her play “ Jar of Fat ,” which explores Korean American identity and “fatphobia” in what she calls a “fantastical fairytale world.”

'Fantastical fairytale world'

Master's of fine arts student Seayoung Yim describes the plot of, and inspiration behind, her play "Jar of Fat."

“Both Nkenna and Seayoung write with a playful, even joyful, sense of experimentation, even as they tackle serious issues like racism and misogyny head-on,” said Julia Jarcho, head of playwriting and an associate professor of theatre arts and performance studies at Brown. “They are both writers who push against norms of what theater supposedly can and can’t do, say and show. They are both determined to make magic happen onstage.”

Christopher Lindsay, a student in the joint Brown/Trinity Repertory Company MFA program in acting, received special recognition for his play “Songs of a Caged Bird,” which earned him Rosa Parks and Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Awards. Lindsay’s play, which was produced virtually by Brown’s Rites and Reason Theatre, dramatizes the prison experience of Lee Berry, a Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther who was arrested on charges of plotting mass murder and acquitted two years later. Karen Allen Baxter, the longtime senior managing director of Rites and Reason Theatre who retired in December 2020 , said the experience of making the production happen virtually was “like flying an airplane while we were building it.”

'Songs of a Caged Bird'

Producing Christopher Lindsay's virtual play was "like flying an airplane while we were building it," said Karen Allen Baxter.

This year isn’t the first time Brown students have been recognized by the Kennedy Center. Most recently, Lucas Baisch, a Class of 2020 graduate, won a Latinx Playwriting Award last year for “ Dry Swallow ,” which follows the struggles and successes of seven people caught up in illegal drug trade. And Julia Izumi, a 2019 graduate, won awards in two categories for “ miku and the gods ,” a coming-of-age play tackling the topics of grief and personal responsibility.

“These awards are oriented toward writers who want to use the artistic possibilities of theater to reimagine social problems,” Jarcho said. “I think that this year, all three students have done that with their plays.”

Related news:

Prestigious grant to enable first major exhibition on 19th century painter edward mitchell bannister, natan rodrigues ferreira: taking to the stage to broaden access to bilingual community theater, with focus on supporting hbcu faculty, brown library expands access to scholarly digital publishing.

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http://brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/

Degrees Offered

Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Multimedia

Residency type

Program length, 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

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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
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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