Creative Writing

专业介绍

Our Master in Fine Arts faculty is comprised of a dedicated group of poets and fiction writers who have won awards ranging from Guggenheim to MacArthur Fellowships, and who have—collectively—written, translated, and edited more than fifty books. Each year, we draw nine poets and nine fiction writers from an international applicant pool of roughly 1,000. These students spend two years taking craft classes, workshops and literature classes, attending readings, and meeting individually with faculty members. At the end of their second year, our students submit their MFA theses. 

The acclaimed Zell Visiting Writers Series brings more than a dozen poets and fiction writers to campus every year, both to read and meet with students. Recent visitors include Alice McDermott, Ada Limón, Torrey Peters, Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Baxter, Ocean Vuong, Justin Torres, Anne Carson, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ross Gay and Rumaan Alam. Our students also participate in reading series themselves, and are able to apply for the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. Named for their benefactor Avery Hopwood, a preeminent playwright of the Jazz Age, the Hopwood Awards collectively offer more than $250,000 in prize money every year to Michigan graduate and undergraduate writers.