If you've been wondering what our recent MFA graduates have been up to, the answer is: quite a lot!
Over the past few years, former students have won:
* Stegner Fellowships at Stanford University
* the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Award
* the Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship
* Exeter’s George Bennett Fellowship
* Fulbright fellowships for study & research abroad
* fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
* the Playboy College Fiction Contest (three times in the past ten years, but who's counting?)
* and been finalists for the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
Works by our graduates regularly appear in:
* Best American Stories
* Best American Poetry
* Best American Essays
* Prize Stories: The O’Henry Award
* The Pushcart Prize anthology
* Best New American Writing
* plus virtually every major literary journal and magazine, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Poetry, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Recent graduates have secured publishing contracts from the some of the most prestigious presses in the country, including FSG, Norton, and William Morrow, sometimes while still in the program.
We couldn't be more proud!