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 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
Dana Burchfield (poetry)
Caroline Duda (fiction)
Brian Kornell (fiction)
BA, Psychology, John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio
Matt Minicucci (poetry)
BA, Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Paul Pedroza (fiction)
BA, Creative Writing, University of Texas-El Paso
El Paso, Texas
Micah Riecker (fiction)
BA, Creative Writing, Knox College
Traverse City, Michigan
Heather Salus (poetry)
BA, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary Studies, Creative Writing, Beloit College
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Second Year
Ashley Booth (poetry)
BA, Professional Writing and Creative Writing, Purdue University
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Aaron Burch (fiction)
BA, Communications, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Blair Croan (fiction)
BA, English-Creative Writing and MA, English-Creative Writing, Pittsburgh State University
Fort Scott, Kansas
Lindsey Drager (fiction)
BA, Creative Writing and English Literature, Grand Valley State University
Temperance, Michigan
Sean Karns (poetry)
BA, English, Ohio State University
Springfield, Ohio
Sara McWhorter (poetry)
First Year
Eduardo Gabrieloff (poetry)
BA, English/Creative Writing, Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sara Gelston (poetry)
Baron Haber (fiction)
BA, English, Whitman College
Seattle, Washington
Max Somers (poetry)
BA, Anthropology, Purdue University
Indianapolis, Indiana
Eric Tanyavutti (fiction)
Jessica Thom (fiction)
BA, Journalism and Mass Communications, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania