MFA in Writing Archive

Mary Ruefle is the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, ...

Terrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971, and educated at Coker College where...

Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir.

Liara Tamani is the author of Calling My Name, a PEN America Literary Award finalist and SCBWI Golden Kite Award honoree. Liara’s forthcoming novel...

Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus...

Clifford Thompson received a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction in 2013 for Love for Sale and Other Essays, published by Autumn House Press,...

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN American Robert...

Alumna Lauren Markham (Writing, '10) is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young ...

Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly (Wave, 2005) and Olio (Wave, 2016). Olio won...

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh (2001) and The Queen of the Night (2016). His essay collection,...