University of Montana, Missoula [1]
CutBank [2]
Poetry: Brian Blanchfield, Sean Hill
Fiction: Emily Ruskovich
Nonfiction: Chris Dombrowski
2024–2025 Visiting Faculty: Heid Erdrich (Poetry), Max Loskutoff (Fiction), Amy Leach (Nonfiction)
The program offers fully-funded opportunities through teaching assistantships, and partial funding through scholarships, fellowships (including the Truman Capote Fellowship) and other awards.
The program offers the student-run reading series Second Wind; an annual “Life after MFA” publishing conference; semester-long visiting writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; and a superb visiting writers series.
GRE scores are no longer an application requirement.