MFA in Writing Archive

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,...

Tere Dávila of San Juan, Puerto Rico is the author of the short story collections El fondillo maravilloso and Lego. In 2016...

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. ...

Mary Cappello is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour (Bellevue Literary Press, 2007), a Los Angeles ...

Victor LaValle is the award-winning author of slapboxing with jesus (Vintage, 1999), The Ecstatic (Crown, 2002), Big Machine (Spiegel...