UCR Low Residency MFA Press Office

A very special Arts & Letters! We'll be hosting our second event of the season during our twice annual MFA residency at the Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort...and you're invited! Tod Goldberg will be talking about his instant bestseller ONLY WAY OUT in an exclusive conversation with his editor, Gracie Doyle. December 6th, 8pm, Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort in Indian Wells.

We're delighted to announce our first Arts & Letters event of 25/26 is the legendary Susan Straight! Reserve your seat here:

Arts and Letters: Susan Straight National Book Award finalist Susan Straight in conversation with Tod Goldberg on the release of her new novel, "Sacrament." Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "Consistently brilliant author's finest book yet," and People -- which also named the book their Pick of Week -- as "Straight's new stunn...

Two of our professors are pretty much just the Best Americans.

Congratulations to MFA professor Gabino Iglesias!

Gabino Iglesias Joins Core Faculty We are pleased to announce that Gabino Iglesias has

Publishers Weekly weighs in with a rave for MFA alum Jaime Parker Stickle's debut!

Get away to write...your movie, your TV show, or your play. Applications for fall are due August 1st.

Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

Get away to write. Applications for fall are due August 1st.

Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

Our alums continue to kill it...today, Arlon Jay Staggs is on the NYT's Modern Love podcast, talking about his essay:

‘Modern Love’ Podcast: How Location Sharing Is Changing Our Relationships Arlon Jay Staggs knew it was time to stop sharing his location with his mother, but with everything his family was going through, he just couldn’t figure out how to tell her.

It's pub day for Nicholas Belardes!

Ten Sleep When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on...

Professor Ivy Pochoda is profiled today in the New York Times:

Ivy Pochoda Tries Her Hand at Horror in a New Novel, ‘Ecstasy’ (Gift Article) The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.”

Congratulations to MFA alum Emily St. Martin on her Los Angeles Press Club win!

MFA professor Ivy Pochoda picks up a big award for her short story "Jackrabbit Skin"!