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Texas State University MFA

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The Texas State University MFA Program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, is a three-year graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. Fiction writer Doug Dorst is currently the director of the program. The faculty includes many award-winning writers.

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It was cited by The New York Times as having the vision "to build a program that might rival the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop." Texas State's MFA program ranked 45th out of 131 full-residency graduate writing programs in the Poets & Writers survey for the application year 2012.

The Front Porch Literary Journal is published by students of the program.

Faculty

  • Cyrus Cassells, poetry
  • Doug Dorst, fiction/Program Director
  • Jennifer duBois, fiction
  • Tom Grimes, fiction
  • Roger Jones, poetry
  • Debra Monroe, fiction
  • Tim O'Brien, Professor of Creative Writing
  • Cecily Parks, poetry
  • Kathleen Peirce, poetry
  • Steve Wilson, poetry

    • Endowed chair in creative writing

  • Ai, 2002-2003
  • Tim O'Brien, 2003-2004
  • Barry Hannah, 2004-2005
  • Tim O'Brien, 2005-2006
  • Denis Johnson, 2006-2007
  • Tim O'Brien, 2007-2008
  • Li-Young Lee, 2008-2009
  • Tim O'Brien, 2009-2010
  • Robert Stone, 2010-2011
  • Tim O'Brien, 2011-2012
  • Cristina García, 2012-2014
  • Ben Fountain, 2014-2016
  • Karen Russell, 2016-2018

    • References

    Texas State University MFA Wikipedia
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