MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Debra Allbery, Sally Ball, Rita Banerjee, Zeina Hashem Beck, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Marianne Boruch, CM Burroughs, Marianne Chan, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Daisy Fried, Brooks Haxton, A. Van Jordan, Sally Keith, Christine Kitano, Sandra Lim, Maurice Manning, Pablo Medina, Matthew Olzmann, Martha Rhodes, Jason Schneiderman, Brian Teare, Dan Tobin, Connie Voisine, Alan Williamson, Yanyi, C. Dale Young
Fiction: Lesley Nneka Arimah, Dean Bakopoulos, Robert Boswell, Liam Callanan, Maud Casey, Christopher Castellani, Lan Samantha Chang, Sonya Chung, Angela Flournoy, Lauren Groff, David Haynes, Vanessa Hua, T. Geronimo Johnson, Margot Livesey, Akil Kumarasamy, Nina McConigley, Ana Menéndez, Antonya Nelson, Alix Ohlin, Peter Orner, Michael Parker, Hanna Pylväinen, Robin Romm, Marisa Silver, Dominic Smith, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Lysley Tenorio, Peter Turchi, Laura van den Berg
The program offers partial funding through MFA grants, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship, grants and scholarships from the Holden Fund for Diversity, the Rodney Jack Scholarship, the Lisel Mueller Scholarship, the Renate Wood Scholarship, Levis Funds, and more.
Students attend two 10-day residencies each year, in January and July, at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in the winter, and on the Warren Wilson College campus in Swannanoa, North Carolina, in the summer.
Lectures and readings by MFA program faculty are open to the public.
The application deadline is March 1 for the July residency and September 1 for the January residency.