Meet the Alumni of the Creative Writing MFA
Our alumni are accomplished writers of poetry and prose, who have gone on to successful and varied careers in academia, publishing, arts administration, public policy, library science, journalism, and the nonprofit sector. Meet a few of our proud graduates below.
CSU writers have PUBLISHED BOOKS with presses large and small, including: BlazeVOX Books, Broadway Books, D.C. Comics, Dzanc Books, Futurepoem, Graywolf Press, Harper Perennial, Penguin Random House, Red Hen Press, Simon & Schuster, Soft Skull, Spuyten Duyvil, Tupelo Press, VERGE Books, Wesleyan University Press, W.W. Norton.
They have won AWARDS including the AWP Intro Award, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, Colorado Book Award, Iowa Short Fiction Award, and the Pulitzer Prize; and FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES from A Public Space (Emerging Writers Fellowship), Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Center for Fiction, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship), Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Ragdale Foundation, Sewanee Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Their work has appeared in prominent PUBLICATIONS including: A Public Space, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, The Chicago Tribune, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Electric Literature, Fence, Glimmer Train, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, Missouri Review, The Nation, Orion, Pindelyboz, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Rain Taxi, Seattle Review, The Sun, Third Coast, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly, ZYZZYVA, and many others.