The Creative Writing MFA program includes the faculty:
Amber Dermont, Associate Professor
PhD in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, 2006
Genres, research, and writing interests: fiction, screenplay, graphic novel, fairy tales, horror, speculative fiction, science fiction
Lacy M. Johnson, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Associate Professor of Creative Writing
PhD in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, 2008
Genres, research, and writing interests: nonfiction, memoir, essay, literary journalism, immersion journalism, environmental writing, disaster studies
Kiese Laymon, Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English
MFA in Creative Writing, Indiana University, 2002
Genres, research, and writing interests: essay, memoir, fiction, screenwriting, children’s literature
Tomás Q. Morín, Associate Professor
MFA in Creative Writing, Texas State University, 2003
Genres, research, and writing interests: poetry, memoir, fiction, translation, and narrative medicine
Phillip B. Williams, Professor
MFA in Creative Writing, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
Genres, research, and writing interest: poetry, fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, surrealism, magical realism, Black narrativity
Andrea Bajani, Professor in the Practice and International Writer in Residence
Genres, research, and writing interests: autobiographical writing, confessional writing, literature in translation, literary translation
Justin Cronin, Writer in Residence
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Iowa, 1989
Genres, research, and writing interests: fiction, speculative fiction, narrative design, the novel
Ian Schimmel, Associate Teaching Professor
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Houston, 2011
Genres, research, and writing interests: fiction, editing and publishing, podcasting and radio journalism, creative writing pedagogy and writing with artificial intelligence
Rosa Boshier González, Lecturer in Creative Writing
MFA in Creative Writing and Critical Studies, California Institute for the Arts, 2018
Genres, research, and writing interests: fiction, nonfiction, journalism, cultural criticism, art history, Latine studies, visual studies
Cameron Dezen Hammon, Lecturer in Medical Humanities
MFA in Creative Writing, Seattle Pacific University, 2015
Genres, research, and writing interests: Memoir, Essay, Flash nonfiction, Medical Humanities, Reproductive Health and Justice, Religion and Sexuality, Death studies