Columbia University

MFA
NEW YORK, NY

At the core of the curriculum is the writing workshop. All workshops are small (seven to twelve students), ensuring that all students present work at least three times per semester. Students receive substantial written responses to their work from their professors and classmates; they also have regularly scheduled one-on-one conferences with faculty.

Narrative Author Faculty: Josh Bell, Saidiya Hartman, Adam Haslett, Lore Segal, Dani Shapiro, Tana Wojczuk, Alan Ziegler

Narrative Author Graduates: Nathaniel Bellows, Jane Bernstein, Justin Boening, Gregory Brown, Jeffrey Colvin, Jay Deshpande, Kathy Fagan, Krystall Fierens-Lee, Peter Filkins, Katherine Heiny, Charlotte Holmes, Tom Jenks, EJ Koh, Eric LeMay, Kara Levy, Sara Faye Lieber, Lynn Melnick, Elizabeth Metzger, Rick Moody, Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, Gregory Orr, Camille Rankine, Montana Ray, Gordon Sauer, Brenda Shaughnessy, Elizabeth Straus, Terese Svoboda, Geeta Tewari, Josh Weil, Jennifer Liberts Weinberg, Tana Wojczuk