The program offers an intense and focused opportunity for students to further their commitment to writing as the center of their professional lives. Through a combination of mentoring by accomplished faculty in a series of creative writing workshops, courses focused on the study of literature offered through the English MA Program, and electives that include the practice of literary editing, the teaching of creative writing, digital poetics, documentary poetics, the art of memoir, and more-students will have the guidance to develop and shape their work to the full extent of their talent. After three years in the program, their will be prepared to sustain their commitment to contemporary literature as writers, readers, editors, and teachers.