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Creative Writing Program

Welcome!

Through a diverse offering of faculty, courses, visiting writers, interdisciplinary projects, writing prizes, publishing internships, student readings, and a unique commitment to the generative interrelationship between literary study and literary production, the Creative Writing Program is dedicated to enhancing our students' creative, literary, and professional lives. As the core unit for the interdisciplinary Center for the Literary Arts, the Program fosters a specifically grassroots approach to the role of the literary arts in our community and culture.

New initiatives include a Hospital Arts program, serving hospitalized young people, and the Summer Seminars in Greece Program, serving undergraduate and graduate students from our program and other national creative writing programs.

The Creative Writing Program is the 2001 recipient of the University's Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education Award.

Student Books

Our students have published award-winning books with the University of Iowa Press, Del Sol Press, The Kent State University Press, Harper Perennial, University of Massachussets Press, The Ohio State University Press, and the University of Pittsburgh Press, among others. Each of the following book covers links to the publisher's website.
dunham jacket
 meyer jacket gehrke jacket
 rosko jacket
Rebecca Dunham
The Miniature Room 		Nadine Meyer
The Anatomy Theater 		Steve Gehrke
Michelangelo's Seizure 		Emily Rosko
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buchsbaum jacket
 varallo jacket
 kaukonen jacket
 pierce jacket
Julie Buchsbaum
A Little Night Comes 		Anthony Varallo
This Day in History 		Scott Kaukonen
Ordination		 Catherine Pierce
Animals of Habit