Master of Professional Writing Program

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The Master of Professional Writing Program is a graduate degree program in professional writing. Chatham University in Pennsylvania has an online MPW program. The University of Southern California's MPW program will be closing in May 2016.

Notable alumni of the USC program

Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House

Margaret Davis, author of biographies of Mulholland and Doheny

Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw

Charlotte Laws, author and animal rights advocate

EM Lewis - playwright

Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author

Gina Nahai - author of Cry of the Peacock

Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books

Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madalyn O'Hair

Lee Wochner, playwright

Millicent Borges Accardi, National Endowment for the Arts winner poet

Notable faculty, past and present, of the USC program

Shelley Berman - humor writing

Nan Cohen - poetry

Syd Field - screenwriting

Janet Fitch - fiction

Noel Riley Fitch - non-fiction

Donald Freed - playwriting

Amy Gerstler- poetry

Dana Goodyear- non-fiction

Janet Irvin - fiction

Irvin Kershner - cinema/TV

Jerome Lawrence - playwriting

Dinah Lenney - non-fiction

Gerald Locklin - poetry, fiction

Larry the Cable Guy - cinema/TV

MG Lord - non-fiction

Shelly Lowenkopf - fiction, publishing

David Scott Milton - playwriting

Gina Nahai - fiction

Gabrielle Pina - fiction

Robert Pirosh - cinema/TV

James Ragan - poetry, director for 25 years

John Rechy - fiction

Aram Saroyan - poetry, fiction

Hubert Selby Jr. - fiction

Melville Shavelson - cinema/TV

Gay Talese - non-fiction

Shirley Thomas - technical writing

Kenneth Turan - film

Lee Wochner, playwriting

Richard Yates - fiction

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Notable alumni of the USC program

Notable faculty, past and present, of the USC program

References