Students and alumni share their perspectives on the MFA Program in Writing.

Suzanne Barnecut: "So this is what I like best about CCA: you may travel in a direction you didn't intend to go, and that's OK. That seems to be the point." Read more.

Marissa Bell: "The visiting writers and folks who gave readings exhibited the myriad ways to forge a living in the writing world." Read more.

Jack Bergquist: "I am not prone to hyperbole. Opal was a gift; 'Walk good,' she says." Read more.

Solidad DeCosta: "From invigorating debate and discussion about 20th-century poetics in poetry seminars to the integration of fine art and the craft of writing …" Read more.

Steffi Drewes: "CCA is a great reminder of why an art and design school makes a dynamic setting for a graduate writing program." Read more.

Patrick Duggan: "CCA threw me in with a dozen poets of a dozen different styles and approaches, forcing all of us out of our comfort zones and making us better because of it." Read more.

Peach Friedman: "Through Mentored Study, I created my own curriculum, and slowly built a thesis that was a reflection of my pure writer's voice …" Read more.

Nana Twumasi: "Suffice to say, I won (in part) the all-college honors and have a piece that will soon appear in Ballyhoo Stories' online 50 States Project." Read more.