MFA Creative Writing Program

Vievee Francis is the author of The Shared World, forthcoming soon; Forest Primeval, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Best American Poetry 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019, and Angles of […]

Poet and essayist Mary Ruefle has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007), and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection, Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012) and the […]

Kaitlyn Greenidge is a novelist and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her most recent novel, the critically acclaimed Libertie received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, who called it, "another genius work of radical historical fiction." She is the author of the debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, one of the New York Times Critics' Top […]

David Adjmi is the author of the plays The Evildoers, Stunning, 3C and Marie Antoinette. His plays have been produced all over, including at Lincoln Center, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Steppenwolf and Soho Rep. His writing has been featured or profiled in The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, Electric Literature, American Theatre, […]

Join us as poet John Murilllo discusses his book, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. This event will be held in person at Hunter College and online via Zoom. Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all who attend. Upload your vaccination proof RSVP to attend this event in person RSVP to attend via Zoom

Join us as critically acclaimed poet and translator Brenda Hillman discusses her recent book of poetry, In a Few Minutes Before Later. This event will be held in person at Hunter College and online via Zoom. Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all who attend. Upload your vaccination proof RSVP to attend […]

Laura Kasischke is the author of nine collections of poetry and seven novels. Kasischke was awarded the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst […]