MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, Dorothea Lasky, Shane McCrae, Deborah Paredez, Lynn Xu
Fiction: Paul Beatty, Anelise Chen, Nicholas Christopher, Rivka Galchen, Heidi Julavits, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Victor LaValle, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Gary Shteyngart, Alan Ziegler
Nonfiction: Chloé Cooper Jones, Jaquira Díaz, Lis Harris, Leslie Jamison, Margo Jefferson, Wendy S. Walters
Translation: Susan Bernofsky
Recent Adjunct Faculty: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Assadi, Chris Beam, Keri Bertino, Mark Bibbins, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Matthew Burgess, Halle Butler, Eliza Callahan, James Cañon, Maisy Card, Frances Cha, Bonnie Chau, Josh Cohen, Lilly Dancyger, Matty Davis, Emma Golden, David Gordon, Benjamin Hale, Susan Hartman, Nathan Heller, Joanna Hershon, Lars Horn, Brigid Hughes, Evan James, Katrine Jensen, Nalini Jones, Madhu Kaza, John Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Tan Lin, Amy Grace Loyd, Jack Lowry, Susan Luo, Erroll McDonald, Lynn Melnick, Lincoln Michel, Michael F. Moore, Michelle Orange, Nadia Owusu, Ed Park, Heather Radke, Chase Rhys, Sarah Rothenberg, Leonard Schwartz, Yasmine Seale, Vijay Seshadri, Jesse Sheidlower, Ira Silverberg, Emily Skillings, Dinitia Smith, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Lynn Steger Strong, Benjamin Taylor, Jeremy Tiang, Edwin Torres, Lara Vapnyar, Asiya Wadud, Alyson Waters, Adam Wilson, James Wood, Matvei Yankelevich, James Yeh, Kate Zambreno
The program offers partial funding, including administrative and teaching assistantships, research assistantships, scholarships, and internships.
The program includes a joint course of study in literary translation known as Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC).
There are events, readings, and conversations throughout the year, including the Creative Writing Lectures, Nonfiction Dialogues, Life After the MFA panels, student reading series, and the Columbia Selects MFA Alumni Reading Series at KGB Bar.
Other programs and outlets include:
Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) provides MFA teachers with training and teaching opportunities on and off campus, with students of all ages and levels.
Our Word, a student group promoting diversity within the Writing Program and in the broader literary community.
Columbia Journal, a student-run literary magazine.
Daphne Palasi Andreades, Mary Jo Bang, Lucie Brock-Broido, Eliza Barry Callahan, Jessamine Chan, Melissa Clark, Emmeline Clein, Jinwoo Chong, Emma Cline, Madeleine Cravens, Sophie Madeline Dess, Rebecca Donner, Charlee Dyroff, Patrick James Errington, Peter Farrelly, Jennifer Franklin, Sarah Timmer Harvey, Carlie Hoffman, Marie Howe, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Diane Josefowicz, Sophie Kemp, Jordan Kisner, Alexandra Kleeman, E.J. Koh, Rachel Kushner, Catherine Lacey, Daniel Lefferts, Hilary Leichter, Asha Lemmie, Rodney Terich Leonard, Adam Levy, Ashley Nelson Levy, Madelaine Lucas, Alistair Mackay, E.J. McAdams, Molly McGhee, Lynn Melnick, Rick Moody, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Sigrid Nunez, Nathan Xavier Osorio,Julie Otsuka, Gregory Pardlo, Leila Philip, Claudia Rankine, Camille Rankine, Karen Russell, Vijay Seshadri, Brenda Shaughnessy, Emily Skillings, Tracy K. Smith, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Lynn Steger Strong, Megan Sungyoon, Terese Svoboda, Adam Wilson, Kao Kalia Yang, Brian Young