Although the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden is new, our students have been studying creative writing with us at the graduate level for over a decade. Some of our published alumni include:

Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of the short story collection Inheritance of Exile, finalist in the Associated Writing Programs contest for fiction, and editor of the anthology Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing

Kate Delaney, author of the poetry collection Reading Darwin

Paul Lisicky, author of the memoir Famous Builder and the novel Lawnboy

Gregory Pardlo, author of the poetry collection Totem

Carol Plum-Ucci, author of Young Adults novels including The Night My Sister Went Missing, The Body of Christopher Creed, and The She

Robert Pulcini, screenwriter and director of the movies "American Splendor" and "The Nanny Diaries"

Agnes Rossi, author of novels Split Skirt and The Houseguest, and the short story collections The Quick and Athletes and Artists

Kathleen Volk Miller and Marion Wrenn, co-editors of The Painted Bride Quarterly

Brad Windhauser, author of the novel Regret