Degree Overview
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing Program is offered in a low-residency format that allows students, with the oversight of a faculty-mentor, to design their own programs of study concentrating in one of five genres:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Writing for Stage and Screen
- Writing for Young People
Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing program highlights
- Named one of "the more distinguished low-residency programs" in The Creative Writing MFA Handbook
- Residencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts: a literary center
- An interdisciplinary component that nourishes student writing
A unique, interdisciplinary approach that benefits all writers
Lesley's MFA Creative Writing program helps students expand their abilities as writers by widening the angles, and deepening the fields, of their vision. Opportunities for interdisciplinary learning are made possible through all the schools at Lesley University including The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley (AIB), and in key disciplines including:
- Art therapy
- Psychology
- Education
- Expressive Therapies
