Each of the MFA courses in Creative Writing is taught by an award-winning poet, essayist, or fiction writer(as well as a visiting artist, lecturer, editor, researcher). We have a distinguished faculty, all with an extensive body of published work, who agree upon the same professional principles of running an MFA Program. We view our aesthetic diversity as a strength of the program. Students will find a varied and informative approach to the writing process with each writer they study with. What remains common practice is our willingness to privilege the thesis dialogue. It is not unusual for members of the MFA Faculty to have manuscript consultations with a student over a two or three year period.

Past Visiting Faculty

Each year our program brings accomplished writers and poets to teach for a semester as visiting faculty. Our a In the past, visiting faculty members have included such distinguished writers and poets as Wanda Coleman, Joanne Mescherry, Steve Kowitt, Jericho Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Lidia Yuknavitchm and numerous others. They are a distinguished group that includes winners of American Book Award, Whiting Writers Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, finalists for PEN-Faulkner Award and LA Times Book Award, authors of popular text-books on creative writing, and active practicing writers.