Our MFA candidates have hailed from places as different as western India and northern Idaho, and their backgrounds and experiences are equally diverse. Some apply directly from undergraduate programs-mostly in the humanities, but from fields of study as far—ranging as studio art and aerospace engineering. Other candidates come to the program after several years of work experience—jobs as varied as ranch hand, ad copywriter, waiter, teacher—and return to writing as a passion they set aside for other careers. Some have published or produced their work, some have not. We don't seek writers of a particular aesthetic, and both the students and the faculty work in many styles, ranging across the experimental and the narratively traditional. After graduation, a strong network of alumni across the country keep in contact with one another and with the Center. We're proud to showcase a few of them here.