Department of English
Meet Our Students
Our MFA Creative Writing Program aims to attract diverse and promising voices from the central San Joaquin Valley, throughout California, across the country and beyond.
2026 Cohort
Aidan Daher
Fiction
Andrew Dickinson
Fiction
Yeiri Farias
Fiction
Keith Heidick
Creative Nonfiction
Harper Klaus
Fiction
Raúl Rivera
Fiction
Halima Smith
Poetry
Eric Su
Creative Nonfiction
Jay Tompkins
Fiction
Stella Luna Velez
Creative Nonfiction
Diedra Werner Liske
Poetry
2025 Cohort
Alexander Ayers
Creative Nonfiction
Deborah Mechele Bento
Creative Nonfiction
Oliver Esparza Nava
Fiction
Celeste Jones
Poetry
Emerald Hope Medrano
Creative Nonfiction
Kayla Quevedo
Fiction
Leslie Kay Quintana
Poetry
Tere Joyce Randolph
Creative Nonfiction
Steven Sandage
Poetry
Indigo Terán
Fiction
Ivy Tong
Fiction
2024 Cohort
Chloe Abella
Creative Nonfiction
Vivian Aguirre
Poetry
Antonia Cardinale
Fiction
David R. Carrasco-Gomez
Poetry
Anya Connelly-Howland
Creative Nonfiction
Isabella De La Torre
Poetry
Peter Garza
Poetry
Amelia Holguin
Poetry
Kaylynn Holt
Fiction
Uvllia Ibarra
Fiction
Alison Mandaville
Creative Nonfiction
Guadalupe Salgado Partida
Poetry
Hannah Sutton
Fiction
Continuing Students
Vanessa Gonzalez
Creative Nonfiction
Ahlam Khadra
Poetry
Samina Najmi
Creative Nonfiction
Tim Simmers
Creative Nonfiction