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The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're…

— Chad Harbach

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

— Alice Mattison

I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program.…

— Anthony Doerr

My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in…

— Garth Greenwell

After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to…

— Andrew Shaffer

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote…

— Lauren Groff

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

“There’s nothing about me on the jacket because I have no credentials. I majored in English at school, but I only took one creative…

— Paul Neilan

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a…

— Chad Harbach

If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into…

— Chad Harbach

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during…

— Dinaw Mengestu