University of Utah
Utah, United States
Residential programThe University of Utah offers a vibrant and highly successful program exploring creative writing, committed on all levels to developing well-rounded practitioners with substantial backgrounds in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, digital writing practices, hybrid and other experimental forms, book arts, and literary history and theory.
Our program hosts a dynamic reading series and opportunities for interaction with visiting authors and scholars. Undergraduates are introduced to a variety of writing lives through small workshops and intensive focus on their work, while studying the larger ecology of contemporary publishing. In our graduate program, home to Quarterly West and Western Humanities Review, students intensify and deepen their investigation. We offer a modular MFA in Environmental Humanities, the American West, or Book Arts. Many graduates in our PhD Program, which Atlantic Monthly rated as among the top five in the country, publish widely in literary journals, place books before or soon after completing the program, win national and international awards, oversee and participate in a graduate reading series, and go on to find good academic positions.
Our renowned and aesthetically diverse faculty, whose honors include Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, the Berlin Prize, and other prestigious recognition of their creative work, scholarship, and teaching, includes Katharine Coles, Michael Mejia, Lance Olsen, Jacqueline Osherow, Paisley Rekdal, and Lindsey Drager.
Our students have published in national literary magazines and journals, and recent work has won the AWP Award in Poetry, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Walt Whitman Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award among many other prizes and achievements.
All PhD students, and many of our MFA students, receive a comprehensive support package, and gain valuable teaching training and experience over the course of their degree. For more information about the program, faculty, past and present reading series, and available graduate student funding and fellowships, please visit our website.
Contact Information
255 S. Central Campus Dr.
Room 3500 LNCO, English
Salt Lake City
Utah, United States
84112-0494
Email: karli.sam@utah.edu
https://english.utah.edu
Graduate Program Director
Sadie HoaglandAdministrator, Creative Writing Program
255 S. Central Campus Dr.
Room 3500 LNCO,English
Salt Lake City
Utah, United States
84112-0494
Email: sadie.hoagland@utah.edu
Recently written up by the ATLANTIC MONTHLY as "one of the top five PhD in Creative Writing programs in the country," the University of Utah Creative Writing Program offers MFA and PhD degrees in a lively and vibrant intellectual atmosphere. By contrast with many similar departments, students in our graduate program are not segregated by field or degree and can take the same courses together. Students also benefit from a diverse and intellectually rigorous course of study. Students at all levels can participate in editing two national literary magazines, QUARTERLY WEST and WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, as well as work on the internationally renowned independent press FC2. The Program's Guest Writers Series brings in nationally renowned poets and writers, such as Robert Hass, Michael Cunningham, Percival Everett, Cole Swenson, A. Van Jordan, Ben Marcus and JoAnn Beard, while the graduate students run their own popular reading series, The Working Dog.
Our students have published in national literary magazines and journals, and recent work has won the AWP Award in Poetry, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Walt Whitman Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award among many other prizes and achievements.
All PhD students, and many of our MFA students, receive a comprehensive support package, and gain valuable teaching training and experience over the course of their degree. For more information about the program, faculty, past and present reading series, and available graduate student funding and fellowships, please visit our website.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 12
Smallest Class Size: 12
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
In State Tuition 5000
Out of State Tuition 13000
Unit of Measure: Hours
Criticism and Theory: 3
Workshop: 12
Literature: 15
Thesis: 6
Total Units for Degree: 33
Other Requirements: The MFA thesis is a book-length piece of publishable writing: a novel, collection of stories, or a collection of poems. Deadline for application is December 15.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, GRE, Cover Letter
Graduate Program Director
Sadie HoaglandAdministrator, Creative Writing Program
255 S. Central Campus Dr.
Room 3500 LNCO,English
Salt Lake City
Utah, United States
84112-0494
Email: sadie.hoagland@utah.edu
Recently written up by the ATLANTIC MONTHLY as "one of the top five PhD in Creative Writing programs in the country," the University of Utah Creative Writing Program offers MFA and PhD degrees in a lively and vibrant intellectual atmosphere. By contrast with many similar departments, students in our graduate program are not segregated by field or degree and can take the same courses together. Students also benefit from a diverse and intellectually rigorous course of study. Students at all levels can participate in editing two national literary magazines, QUARTERLY WEST and WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, as well as work on the internationally renowned independent press FC2. The Program's Guest Writers Series brings in nationally renowned poets and writers, such as Robert Hass, Michael Cunningham, Percival Everett, Cole Swenson, A. Van Jordan, Ben Marcus and JoAnn Beard, while the graduate students run their own popular reading series, The Working Dog.
Our students have published in national literary magazines and journals, and recent work has won the AWP Award in Poetry, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Walt Whitman Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award among many other prizes and achievements.
All PhD students, and many of our MFA students, receive a comprehensive support package, and gain valuable teaching training and experience over the course of their degree. For more information about the program, faculty, past and present reading series, and available graduate student funding and fellowships, please visit our website.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 12
Smallest Class Size: 12
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
In State Tuition 5000
Out of State Tuition 13000
Unit of Measure: Hours
Criticism and Theory: 3
Workshop: 12
Literature: 15
Thesis: 6
Total Units for Degree: 33
Other Requirements: The MFA thesis is a book-length piece of publishable writing: a novel, collection of stories, or a collection of poems. Deadline for application is December 15.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, GRE, Cover Letter
Katharine Coles
Wayward (poetry, Red Hen Press), Look Both Ways (memoir, Turtle Point Press), Flight (poetry, Red Hen Press), The Earth Is Not Flat (poetry, Red Hen Press)
https://faculty.utah.edu/u0032934-KATHARINE_A_COLES/hm/index.hml
Lindsey Drager
The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc, 2019), The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015)
Michael Mejia
TOKYO (Fiction Collective 2, 2018), Forgetfulness (Fiction Collective 2, 2005
https://michaelmejiawriter.com/
Ronald Shavers
Silverfish (Clash Books, 2020)
Jacqueline Osherow
Dead Man's Praise, Looking for Angels in New York, Conversations with Survivors
https://english.utah.edu/people/jacqueline_osherow.php
Paisley Rekdal
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, The Invention Of The Kaleidoscope
https://faculty.utah.edu/u0398961-PAISLEY_REKDAL/hm/index.hml
