MFA Creative Writing
Students & Alumni

Current Students

Betsy Arnett
Nancy Bell
“Expedition.” The Disappointed Housewife. July 18, 2023
Asjiah Benoit
Lisa Bevevino
Devon Boan
Katerina Canyon
Leslie Cardwell
Gina Elia
Karin Fazio Littlefield
Laura Flint
Salaam Green
Anne Gunter
Beverly Heasley
Alexis Jemal
Tomia Jones
Leigh Latham
Gavin Mclemore
Meriwether Nichols
Morgan Raper
Alasdair Rivers
Rachel Sedore
Jordan Taylor
Catherine Tollman
Gwynnedra Vance
Mckensie White
Amy Wilson
Morgan Wilson
Ron Zack

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Alumni

Jennifer Armstrong 2025
Christian Collier 2025
Alexis Jemal 2025
Erin Matson 2025
Lindsey Parker 2025
Megan Prestridge 2025
Kerri Roe 2025
Rebecca Anderson Bright 2024
Magnolia Jane Dill, 2024
Anthony Hughes, 2024
Pietje Kobus, 2024
Dominique Lewis, 2024
Madison Nanney, 2024
Elaine Monaghan, 2024
Dena Pruet, 2024
Michelle Stoll, 2024
Alana Benoit, 2023
Rebeckah Devine, 2023
Bailey Hammond, 2023
Jan Hoover, 2023
Lehana Lewis, 2023
Hannah Madonna, 2023
Brooke Sandlin, 2023
Rich Sobolewski, 2023
Dana Xedos, 2023
Katharine Armbrester, 2022
Andrew Brasfield, 2022
Mackenzie Bitz, 2022
Mariana Boncek, 2022
Still Life poems, 2025
Diamond City Atmosphere Press, 2023
Ajar Melange Books, 2014
Gone Missing in New York Schiffer 2011
Spooky Hudson Valley Schiffer 2010
Jessica Calvert, 2022
Shannon Evans, 2022
Missy Goodnight, 2022
Emily McIntyre, 2022
Lynn Miller, 2022
Madison Rhodes, 2022
Randi Sanders, 2022
Hollie Smith, 2022
Gina Vinson, 2022
Kaitlyn Bryant, 2021
Melissa Easley, 2021
Diane Finlayson, 2021
Thomas Gonzales, 2021
MFA Awarded In Memoriam
Elizabeth Hines, 2021
Sarah Karowski, 2021
Americana Folktale, 2024 Write Now Poetry Chapbook Winner
Bill Kessler, 2021
Lauren Ostrander, 2021
Carrie Penrod, 2021
Tracy Pitts, 2021
Lauren Rhoades, 2021
Split the Baby. Belle Point Press, 2025. Rooted Magazine. Editor in Chief
Mary Wiygul, 2021
Jackie Clowney, 2020
Grace Gibbons, 2020
Debby Gray, 2020
Kyla Hanington, 2020
Alec Hawkins, 2020
K D Kreger, 2020
Controlled Conversations, 2024 longlisted for PEN/Hemingway 2025
Julia Miller, 2020
Brandi Pillow, 2020
Mix-Mix, Baobab Press, 2025 Swallow Whole, Bullshit Press, March 2024, chapbook Dela Torre, Sundress Publications, 2022, e-chapbook Salamat sa Intersectionality, Okay Donkey Press, 2021
Courtney Clark, 2019
John Gibbs, 2019
Sally Lyon, 2019
Ashley Hewitt, 2019
Robin Murphy, 2019
Xenia Murtaugh, 2019
Celeste Schueler, 2019
Peonies of Resurrection: Poems forthcoming ELJ Editions, 2027
Lilyanne Kane, 2018
Kathleen Galvin, 2018
With John R. Galvin: Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier’s Memoir University Press of Kentucky, 2015
Confirm Humanity and Other Stories Port of Planets Publishing, 2021
Deleted Dreams. Self-published novel. 2020. 4.5 star review at Self-Publishing Review.

Inaugural Cohort

Our first class began their MFA in August 2015. Some were full-time and some part-time, so they completed their programs in different years. To honor the fact that they all began with us together, we list them here, rather than with their graduating class above.

Hurricane Baby, Madville Publishing, 2024.
How to Read Friendly City Books, 2021
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking. Acre Books, 2022 American Cavewall Sonnets. Bull City Press. 2021 Forty Stitches Sewing a Body Against a Ramshackle Night. Animal Heart Press. 2020 This Might Have Meant Fire. Inch #39. Bull City Press. June 2019
Jeanna Graves, 2018
“Traffic Jam” 3rd Place One-Act Play. William Faulkner Literary Competition. 2016
Honorable mention AWP Intro Journals Project, Poetry for “County Road 518 at Country Road 24”
Consenting Adults Produced by Bay Saint Louis Little Theater, Bay of Saint Louis, MS, March 2018 Hooked one-act play, Mississippi Writes Original, Bay St. Louis Little Theatre Tennessee Williams Festival, March 24-25, 2017
Editor-in-Chief: The Loveliest Review
I’m Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I’ve Known All That I Can?. ELJ Press, 2023.
Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves. Fiction chapbook. Ethel Zine and Press, 2023.
Adult Fiction: I Made it Out of Clay, Mira Books, 2024
Children: Do Not Eat This Book, Sleeping Bear Press, 2023
Original Syn (2018), Born in Syn (2019, Syn & Salvation (2020) Homebound Publications Plays: Hazardous Materials, The Bottle Tree, Running Mates (or, The Family Party), See Jane Quit, Scrambled, Blue, and To The Moon
Tammie Ward Rice, 2017
Creative Writing Studies Organization Board Member, Conference Chair