Graduate Students

Students in UIUC's M.F.A. in Creative Writing program come from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, and their work in prose and poetry explores a wide range of literary styles. While enrolled in the program, students past and present have published writing in the PANK, Passages North, Mid_American Review, Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Paris Review, Copper Nickel, Sou'wester, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sycamore Review, Image, Denver Quarterly, South Carolina Review, Arkansas Review, Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, Texas Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Grain, Kalliope, 13th Moon, North Dakota Quarterly, Raven Chronicles, Berkeley Fiction Review, Michigan Review, Phoebe, BorderSenses, Boxcar Review, RHINO, Pebble Lake Review, Storyglossia, Fiction International, Oxford Magazine, The Believer, and elsewhere.

Third Year

Eduardo Gabrieloff (poetry)

BA, English/Creative Writing, Colorado College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sara Gelston (poetry)

BFA, Creative Writing, University of Maine - Farmington

Raymond, Maine

gelston1@illinois.edu

Baron Haber (fiction)

BA, English, Whitman College

Seattle, Washington

Max Somers (poetry)

BA, Anthropology, Purdue University

Indianapolis, Indiana

Eric Tanyavutti (fiction)

BS, Genetics, Purdue University

Chicago, Illinois

tanyavu1@illinois.edu

Jessica Thom (fiction)

BA, Journalism and Mass Communications, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

thom2@illinois.edu


Second Year

Laura Adamczyk (fiction)

BA, Creative Writing and Spanish, Knox College

MA, Creative Writing, Northwestern University

Wilmington, Illinois

Kendra Chapman (poetry)

BA, English, Davidson College

Louisville, Kentucky

Michael Don (fiction)

BA, Psychology, Tufts University

St. Louis, Missouri

Angela Hine (poetry)

BA and MA, English/Creative Writing, Pittsburg State University

Bartlett, Kansas


First Year

Khaleel Gheba (poetry)

BA, English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ellicott City, Maryland

Roya Khatiblou (fiction)

BS, Microbiology (English Minor), Arizona State University

MA, Creative Writing, Northwestern University

Glendale, Arizona

Sean MacIntyre (fiction)

BA and MA, English, California State University at Northridge

Los Angeles, California

Natalie Mesnard (fiction)

BS, Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

Rachel Samanie (poetry)

BA, English Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Pismo Beach, California

Lucilena Williams (poetry)

BA, English, Colorado College

Bellingham, Washington