MFA in Writing Archive

The MFA in Writing will hold its winter residency from December 28 to January 8.

Tobias Wolff selected Dewaine Farria's novel as the winner of the 2019 Veterans Writing Award from Syracuse University Press.

The MFA in Writing program is pleased to introduce three new visiting faculty members for 2020.

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance ...

Elena Passarello’s essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have most recently appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, ...

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, which won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics...

Emily Bernard is the Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She holds a BA and a PhD in...

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which...

Sydney Lea is author of 13 volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019).

Scott Price, a summer 2019 graduate of the MFA in Writing (poetry) and a fall 2019 student in the Certificate in Publishing program sat down...