Home : American Life in Poetry. MFA Programs (by name) Recently I was looking through Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists 2 and noticing a lot of MFA graduates represented.
Although it is frequently discussed on this blog, I don’t believe there has been any raking of fiction alumni outside of The Atlantic’s short list. I know that this is a tricky area to measure, but it feels like an important factor for applicants. So I decided to augment Granta’s list to see which programs were producing acclaimed writers and also to give future applicants a sense of what type of writers come out what programs.