MFA in Writing News

Puloma Ghosh, a rising fourth-term MFA candidate in fiction, has been selected as the fourth Residential Teaching Fellow at the, working in the classroom for a full term beginning in Spring 2020

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith is a for the 2019 National Book Awards in Poetry.

PEN America interviewed Davin Malasarn MFA '20 and Monica Carter MFA '20, both past recipients of the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø/PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, for The PEN Ten weekly interview series.

The ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars, in partnership with , has announced that Natalie Mislang Mann is the recipient of the $10,000 ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø/PEN America Emerging Voices scholarship. She’ll begin her studies in June 2019, on the 25th Anniversary of the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars' founding.

Jeanie Riess, a rising second-term MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the third Residential Teaching Fellow at the . The fellowship is the first of its kind in the country to offer full-time undergraduate teaching experience in a low-residency MFA format. Benefits include full tuition remission for one term, housing and board, and enrollment in an on-campus class.