I’m an Assistant Professor of English who teaches in the MFA Program at NC State University. NC State’s MFA is a two-year, fully-funded ($20,000 a year; students don’t teach their first year) program consisting of workshops, interdisciplinary coursework and a final thesis of literary work. I teach in the program along with Belle Boggs (fiction), Carter Sickels, (fiction), Meg Day (poetry), and Diamond Forde (poetry).

NC State MFA Degree Requirements
For more information on the MFA Degree requirements: https://english.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/mfa/degree-requirements/

As part of the MFA degree requirements, students must complete a written thesis exam in which they discuss craft issues from a list of selected books (twenty in total). Below is the MFA Reading List (as of Spring 2025):
MFA Thesis Reading List