MFA Program
A. R. Capetta, Sheela Chari, Melanie Crowder, Evan Griffin, Louise Hawes, Corey Ann Haydu, K. A. Holt, Varian Johnson, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, Anica Mrose Rissi, An Na, Erica Perl, Matt Phelan, Mary Quattlebaum, Sara Ryan, Alex Sanchez, Liz Garton Scanlon, Laura Shovan, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Linda Urban, Jasmine Warga, Emily X. R. Pan, Jennifer Ziegler
The program offers fellowships and merit awards.
The program offers coursework in picture book, early reader/chapter books, middle grade, young adult, graphic literature, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for young people.
Students attend two nine-day residencies each year, in July and January. Concurrent virtual residencies are also offered, along with overseas and domestic residencies held in unique cities of literary merit, including Oxford, England. The on-campus residencies occur alongside the college’s other MFA programs, including Writing, Graphic Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music Composition. Now, with the college’s recently announced affiliation with CalArts, residencies will occur on the CalArts campus in Santa Clarita, California, starting January 2025.
For Summer/Winter, the priority scholarship deadline is February 1; the final deadline is April 1. For Winter/Summer, the priority deadline is August 1; the final deadline is October 1.
Ann Angel, Sarah Aronson, Cassie Beasley, Kate Beasley, Julie Berry, Bridget Birdsall, Gwenda Bond, Pablo Cartaya, René Colato Laínez, Ally Condie, Debby Dahl Edwardson, Nancy Bo Flood, Sundee Frazier, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Linda Oatman High, Varian Johnson, Carrie Jones, Michelle Knudsen, Martine Leavitt, Kekla Magoon, Carolyn Marsden, Lauren Myracle, An Na, Jandy Nelson, Micol Ostow, Candice Ransom, Brendan Reichs, Jill Santopolo, April Pulley Sayre, Leda Schubert, Deborah Wiles, Carol Lynch Williams, Ibi Zoboi