The University of Miami Creative Writing Program fosters, supports and challenges emerging writers and poets to develop and integrate their passion for writing with a strong practice of craft and a good measure of theory in order to give students the opportunity to discover not only what they want to say, but how to say it.

Through the Department of English, we offer undergraduates a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing. We also offer a graduate degree, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in either Poetry or Fiction.

Our mission is to create an intellectual and cultural environment where faculty and students alike are reading, writing and immersing themselves in the creation of contemporary literature – novels, story collections, chapbooks and books of poetry. We also welcome new forms on the stage, in the gallery and online.

Our program is proud to share the accomplishments of our alumni in these pages. In the MFA’s eighteen years of existence, our graduates alone have published more than forty books.

We invite you to learn more about our program in the pages to follow.