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University of Wyoming

MFA in Creative Writing

1000 E. University Ave.

Department 3353

Laramie, WY  82071

Website: www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting

Program director: Beth Loffreda

Program contact: Rachel Ferrell

Phone: 307-766-2867

Email: cw@uwyo.edu

Degrees offered: MFA

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Type of program: Residency

Length of program: 2 years

Enrollment: 23

Total credits required: 40

Application deadlines: January 15

Scholarships available: Yes

Core faculty: Andrew Fitch, Alyson Hagy, Harvey Hix, Mark Jenkins, Frieda Knobloch, Jeff Lockwood, Beth Loffreda, Kate Northrop, David Romtvedt, Brad Watson, Joy Williams

Assistantships: Yes

Publishing/editing courses: Yes

Literary magazine: No

Reading series: Yes

Recent visiting writers: James Salter, Dorothy Allison, Neela Vaswani, Chris Bachelder, Rebecca Curtis, Lara Glenum, Chelsey Minnis, Arielle Greenberg

Program description: The University of Wyoming's Creative Writing MFA program is an intensive two-year studio degree in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Special features include a flexible curriculum, cross-genre workshops, opportunities for interdisciplinary study, and our Eminent Writers in Residence program, which brings distinguished authors to campus to work closely with our students. This year, our Eminent Writers are Edward P. Jones, Claudia Rankine, and Philip Gourevitch; in 2010-2011, we'll be joined by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Jan Zwicky, Robert Bringhurst, and Rebecca Solnit. We have a deeply committed faculty, a lively visiting writers series, an incomparable natural setting, and excellent funding for students, including teaching assistantships with light teaching loads, full tuition waivers, summer stipends, and support for travel and publication. The UW MFA is a small program with a big reach.