NEOMFA
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NEOMFA: The Northeastern Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program
The Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program - or NEOMFA - is a three-year graduate level consortial creative writing program located in Northeast Ohio. The NEOMFA has a unique collaborative design in which students attend all four universities in the consortium: Cleveland State University, The University of Akron, Kent State University, and Youngstown State University. Poet Mary Biddinger is current director of the program. Students are able to take classes at any of the four campuses, while being part of one unified writing program. The NEOFMA offers courses in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, playwriting, and literary translation.
Since its inception in 2005, the NEOMFA has offered small-group workshops, open readings, summer travel fellowships, and high-profile visiting writers in addition to career-preparing internships and competitive graduate funding. Students have the opportunity to intern with literary presses at all four universities, in theater at the Cleveland Public Theater, and in arts management through outreach programs.
Faculty by Campus
University of Akron
- Mary Biddinger, Poetry, Director
- David Giffels, Creative Nonfiction
- Robert Pope, Fiction
- Eric Wasserman, Fiction, UA Campus Coordinator
Cleveland State University
- Nuala Archer, Poetry
- Michael Dumanis, Poetry, CSU Campus Coordinator
- Mike Geither, Playwriting
- Adrienne Gosselin, Fiction
- Emily Mitchell, Fiction
- Imad Rahman, Fiction
Kent State University
- Maggie Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Poetry
- Roger Craik, Poetry
- Donald Hassler, Poetry
- Robert Miltner, Poetry
- Craig Paulenich, Poetry, KSU Campus Coordinator
- Varley O'Connor, Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
- Catherine Wing, Poetry
Youngstown State University
- Christopher Barzak, Fiction
- Philip Brady, Poetry & Creative Nonfiction
* William Greenway, Poetry
- Steve Reese, Poetry, YSU Campus Coordinator
Past Visiting Writers
- Mickey Birnbaum
- Ronald Crist
- Edwidge Danticat
- Mark Doty
- Joyce Dyer
- William Heyen
- H. L. Hix
- Anna Leahy
- Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
- Phillip Lopate
- Jenny Magnus
- Mary Morris
- Walter Mosley
- Anele Rubin
- Alexis Stamatis
- Michael Martone
- Frederick Reiken
- Heather McHugh
Sources
Literary Journals
External links
- NEOMFA Program Website
- Cleveland State English Department
- Kent State English Department
- University of Akron English Department
- Youngstown State English Department
- Wick Poetry Center
- Imagination Conference
- NEOMFA Facebook Fan Page
- NEOMFA Twitter
Category:Creative Writing Programs Category: The University of Akron Category: American Literature