MFA Alumni
2025
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Lucia Herrmann Benitez | Amy Sara Carroll | OVERSEAS UNDERCURRENTS |
| Rebecca Lane | Lily Hoàng | Burying the Dog |
| Rose Pacult | Jac Jemc | Nestle on a Grasshopper’s Wings on our Mother Apple Tree |
| Isadora Petrovsky | Jac Jemc | Mirabilis |
2024
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Aceves Garcia | Anna Joy Springer | TIME IS A SILLY BOY |
| Maya Beck | Lily Hoàng | Airrelle of the Maroon Witches |
| Uly Dunn | Anna Joy Springer | FLUIDS |
| Iman Farahani | Lily Hoàng | THE ARRANGEMENT |
| Matt Ford | Camille Forbes, Brandon Som | Rapture in Blue: The Book of Myles |
| Adrienne Herr | Kazim Ali | Other problems involving three bodies |
| K Wei-Hsin Jacobson | Lily Hoàng, Brandon Som | transpacific |
| Aditi Kini | Lily Hoàng | The Killing of a Tiger |
| Alaric Lopez | Ben Doller | Where Was I? |
| Mia Moncur | Lily Hoàng | The Seton Nursery |
| Olga Petrus | Amy Sara Carroll | enter for Memory& |
| Gin To | Amy Sara Carroll | Welcum To Me ((an anti-thesis)) |
| napoleon Touafek | Kazim Ali | THE RED-EYED CHILDHOOD OF DANGEROUS NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS |
| Emily Yang | Lily Hoàng | FULL TIME LOVERS: A Novella |
2023
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne Avila | Camille Forbes | The Root |
| Dana Flicker | Brandon Som | exploded view: poems & series |
| Neon Mashurov | Jac Jemc, Brandon Som | COLLAPSE |
| Townsend Montilla | Lily Hoàng | A Game of Mutes |
| Becca Rose | Lily Hoàng | BATSHIT |
| Lucien Spect | Kazim Ali | Spun Bit |
2022
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Carlito Beal | Camille Forbes, Brandon Som | Understanding Charlie Beal |
| Melisa Casumbal | Lily Hoàng | An Archive of Misfeeling: Poems & Prose |
| Adriana Tosun | Anna Joy Springer | Stigmatarama |
| Alissa Tu | Lily Hoàng | Becoming a Princess |
2021
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Klara Feenstra | Lily Hoàng | Okay Cool Cool Cool Yeah Yeah |
| Siloh Radovsky | Anna Joy Springer | Home Remedies |
| Calvin Walds | Ben Doller, Brandon Som | Noise, Sound, and Abstract Figures: Notes on Blackness, Beauford Delaney, and the Ship |
2020
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Ayden Grout | Lily Hoàng | Vital Signs |
| T.m. Lawson | Lily Hoàng | Safe Words: A True American Story |
| Lucky Murdock | Ben Doller | ARTMACHINA!: an inquiry into the technologies and processes of writing, the self and the potential futures they share |
2019
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Zachary Bushnell | Lily Hoàng | PoP |
| Valentina Calvache | Camille Forbes | A Woman Plunges into the Abyss Sitting Down |
| Estefani Loza-Torre | Anna Joy Springer | El bordo: A Book of Translation |
| Alison Ogunmokun | Camille Forbes | "SweetBaby's Demi-Adventures" |
2018
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Agard | Anna Joy Springer | of color |
| Shelby Driscoll- Salemi | Anna Joy Springer | My Side of the Ocean |
| Gina Srmabekian | Anna Joy Springer | Some Time Beast |
2017
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Ciston | Anna Joy Springer | Uncertainty Index |
| Maria Jose Delgadillo | Brandon Som | The Heirloom Labyrinth |
| Marco Huerta Alardin | Camille Forbes | A thousand birds chirping out of nowhere: A memoir |
| Kimberly Schreiber | Anna Joy Springer | Fantasy |
2016
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey M. Baker | Ben Doller | What Light Remains |
| Tina Hyland | Anna Joy Springer | The Technoshaman's Grimoire |
| April Peletta | Anna Joy Springer | Mammoth |
| Juan (Pepe) Rojo Solis | Cristina Rivera-Garza |
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2015
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Paola Capó-García | Anna Joy Springer | Clap for Me That's Not Me |
| Maria Flaccavento | Anna Joy Springer | With Papers |
| Kendall Grady | Rae Armantrout | Five Hundred and Sixty Two Couplets |
| Gabriel Kalmuss-Katz | Ben Doller | City Rezoning |
| Ethan Sparks | Anna Joy Springer | The Messiah Machine |
| Jose Antonio Villaran | Cristina Rivera-Garza | open pit |
| Brett Zehner | Ben Doller, Cristina Rivera-Garza | Machine Weather |
2014
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi | Cristina Rivera-Garza | EVERYDAY COLONIALISM |
| Keith McCleary | Michael Davidson | Circus Circus |
| Benjamin Segal | Ben Doller, Cristina Rivera-Garza | Failure Projects |
| Hanna Tawater | Ben Doller | Reptilia (or, how we looked for form) |
| Rachel Taylor | Ben Doller | Waiting Rooms |
2013
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Martin Sandino | Anna Joy Springer | The Five Hundred Disciples: An Apocalypse of the Now |
| Cathiana Sylney | Anna Joy Springer | Without Blood, A Looseleaf Memoir |
| Franciszka Voeltz | Ben Doller | Brightness This |
2012
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Nikolai Beope | Anna Joy Springer | Creative Writing, MFA Thesis |
| Kara Ford-Martinez | Ben Doller | Away Alone |
| Amy Forrest | Cristina Rivera-Garza | When Things Look Like This |
| K. Lorraine Graham | Rae Armantrout | White Girl 1.0 |
| Ryan Luz | Rae Armantrout | Something Quiet, Quiet |
| Allison Moreno | Cristina Rivera-Garza | Still Prime |
| Lester O'Connor | Rae Armantrout | Municipios |
2011
| Alumnus | Committee Chair(s) | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Courtney Kilian | Sarah Bynum | The Anatomy of Growing |
| John Pluecker | Cristina Rivera-Garza | Ford Us Over |
| Kaitlin Solimine | Sarah Bynum | The Soap Tree: From Research to Fiction |