Elizabeth Cullingford, Chair
PAR 108, Mailcode B5000, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-4991
The Creative Writing Program
Master of Fine Arts Degree Program
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Creative Writing Program Director Oscar Casares |
Assistant Director Elizabeth McCracken, James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing |
All of our students receive full funding for their studies through teaching assistantships, fellowships, and grants. These funding opportunities serve to supplement the academic and scholarly training that students receive in graduate courses. During their three semesters of teaching assistantships, M.F.A. candidates receive experience teaching both literature and creative writing at the college level.
Incoming graduate students also have an opportunity to participate in the editorial process of Bat City Review, a nationally distributed literary journal run entirely by graduate students. Past contributors have included Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Paul Muldoon, Barbara Ras, George Saunders, Helena Maria Viramontes, and C.K. Williams
Fiction Faculty
Michael Adams • Oscar Casares • Peter LaSalle • James Magnuson • Elizabeth McCracken
Poetry Faculty
Kurt Heinzelman • Thomas Whitbread • Dean Young
Our students also frequently study with the visiting faculty at the Michener Center for Writers.
Recently Visiting Creative Writing & MCW Faculty
Gabrielle Calvocoressi • Edward Carey • H. L. Hix • Denis Johnson • August Kleinzahler • Brigit Pegeen Kelly • Patrick McGrath • Antonya Nelson • Z. Z. Packer • Michael Parker • Dominic Smith • Colm Toibin





