University of Cincinnati Creative Writing

sm. Their many honors and accolades including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Fulbright Program, as well as University-wide awards for outstanding teaching and mentoring. For over sixty years, the endowed Elliston Room has hosted and continues to host readings and lectures from visiting poets and writers like Robert Frost, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Terrance Hayes, Randall Jarrell, Phillip Levine, Alice Walker, and hundreds more. The nationally-recognized Cincinnati Review is housed here, as well. Our accomplished alumni have books with presses including Harper Perennial, W.W. Martin Press, Copper Canyon, Carnegie Mellon, Red Hen, and Penguin; they are press editors, assistant and associate professors, agents, literary organization founders and directors, and more. Our impressive and successful students come from all over the world. While they are here, they're supported with a variety of teaching and editorial opportunities, as well as grants offered through the graduate school and the university. Students never teach more than one course per semester, and all creative writing graduate students are guaranteed an opportunity to teach a creative writing class by the first semester of their second year. We're a program that values inclusivity and diversity. We offer, among other things, unique opportunities for our English-language creative writing students to collaborate with students in the Spanish-language creative writing track in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. The city of Cincinnati is a thriving metropolis of walkable communities, offering art, music, hiking, history, gastronomy, sports (including the new FC Cincinnati) and entertainment right on the Ohio River (to say nothing of all the craft beer and local bourbon).