English, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Theses Collection
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Theses from 2024
To Fear the Heat of the Sun, David Capone
Still Bleeding, Haley Rachel Cohen
Anatomy in Watercolor, Katee Irene Fletcher
Skunked, Johanna Golden
You're Not Gonna Like This, Matt L. Hall
Evergreen, Madeline Kaprich
A Small Potato, Leanne Ma
Skew Lines, Suchita Nayar
That Light, Gerard Robertson
Whale Shark, Andie Sheridan
Smooth and Coarse: Stories, Jonathan Matthew Smith
Garden, Benjamin N. Wright
Theses from 2023
Secure Your Own Mask First, Logan Buckley
Working Class Vampires and Other Stories, Matthew Shiels
Theses from 2022
Eat The Poor, Cardinal Belgrave Jr.
Big Death: Stories, Dylan Calmes
Disintegration, Alexa Koch
Go West: Stories, Andréa Kossyrev
With Ghosts, Sabina Lindsey
Loop In, Push Out: Stories, Jonathan Lipshin
To Want Too Much: Poems, Jacob Phillips
More Light, Noor Shahzad
Theses from 2021
Skyline, a Novel (Part I), Lisa Allen
Afflictionary: Defining Disability and Chronic Illness Through Poetic Dictionary Entries, Jaime Chernoch
Don't Be a Stranger, Scott M. Delisle
Viability and Other Stories, Jim Flanagan
America Haunts the Heart: Stories, Nicole-Anne Bales Keyton
A Good Woman Should, Megan Waring
Girls Like Us, Sarah M. Young
Theses from 2020
STORM(S), Drew Bevis
Teller and Ben, A Novel, Daniel Elfanbaum
Flotsam, Caitlin N. Ghegan
We Are Not Lemons, Chelsey A. Grasso
Looking into Going Back: A Revision of Strangers, Caitlyn M. Griffin
All This Is Temporary & Other Stories, Hope A. Jordan
Each Sweet, Julia R. Lattimer
Comfort Food, Sarah A. Shapiro
How Much Does a Memory Weigh, Nicholas Snow
Keeper, Christina C. Towers
Unprotected Hex, Nicholas B. Trefonides
The Thing of It Is, Andria J. Warren
Brother Like That, Jessamyn M.L. Wolff
Theses from 2019
Ernesto Bodhi, Your Best Isn’t Good Enough, Jose F. Diaz
Somatic, Shannon L. Kafka
Blood Feud, Krisela Karaja
Land of Plenty: A Short Novel, Alison K. Lanier
Permission to Speak, Lena M. Marecki
Practicing My Vampire Slayer Moves, But I Literally Just Woke Up, Jessica Melendy
Body Mechanics, Emily Moeck
Bridges, Kieran Moriarty
Anatomy of an American House, Brooke Schifano
Theses from 2018
Prisoner's Cinema, Zachary C. Bond
InspiroBot Says: The Singularity Is Invisible in a Mirror, Mary Coons
STORIES THAT MIGHT BE LIES, Warren J. Hinckle IV
I Don't Belong Here But I Am Learning So Much, Julia Rubin
Stories, Justin Spaller
Theses from 2017
Hating Rituals: Stories, Danya Bush
ram, Kate Glavin
Big Sound, Lisa Hanson
Hands Pull You Apart, Emily Jaeger
Rural Goths, David McNamara
The Visible Planets, Alyson E. Pierce
Everything, August Smith
Utopians in Love, Robert Sykora
Better Homes and Graveyards, Lori Zimmermann
Theses from 2016
Something Worse, Matt Denis
Getting Drunk and Kissing Strangers, Andrea Gregory
McClung's Book of Sermon Illustrations for the Itinerant Evangelist, Joshua Jones
Umbra, M. Vanessa Larsen
Cloak Island: A Novella, Gemma Leghorn
COPPER STATE, Jennifer Ellen Murphy
Training, Jason Henry Simon-Bierenbaum
Unruly, Elysia L. Smith
Not Blood, Derek J.G. Williams
Theses from 2015
BINARY STARS, Kate Carito
Latitudes, Lewis George Feuer
Militaria, Adam M. Graaf
The Tale of Sigh, the Tales of Iran, Nazila Hafezi
A Private Game, Lynn E. Holmgren
Bury My Feet, Nathaniel Hunt
States of Insecurity, Jennifer Lucy Martin
To Fix Stray Things, Alyssa L. Mazzarella
Mall, Matthew A. Morrison
Third World Instincts, Shilpi Suneja
Theses from 2014
The Banjoist of Stumpville: Now Streaming, Drew Arnold
Expeditions, Mariya Deykute
Wrapped Around a Rock, Karen Locascio
Own Unknowing, Edmund M. Manning
Rupture, Peter Francis Picetti
Wanting To Be Haunted, Theadora Siranian
Bone Meal, Ryan Spellman Vautour
The Alternate Lives of Claire MacKenna, Lauren von Hagel
Theses from 2013
Like Spring, But More Ruined, Sam Cha
Forty Two, Noreen Cleffi
Dakota Falls, Aaron Devine
This Rebel City, Nathaniel Forsythe
Beautiful People Heaven, Betsabe Gomez
Blood Call, Krysten S. Hill
Grotesques, Kurt Klopmeier
The Salt Harvester's Son, Fawzi S. Nicolas