Alumni

In our program, we strive to provide the groundwork and the seeds to help our students grow in their writing long after their time in Oxford. We’re so proud of the sheer number of Mississippi MFA alumni who have gone on to publish and win awards for their writing, including the Pushcart Prize, the Stegner Fellowship, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, United States Artists Fellowship, the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and the AWP Donald Hall Prize. Our graduates’ books have been shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award and been featured in Oprah Daily, the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and more. Many of our alumni are now teaching writing all over the country, and several have gone on to editorial and publishing jobs as well.

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