A Master of Professional Writing Program is a type of graduate degree program in professional writing. Chatham University in Pennsylvania has an online MPW program.[1] The University of Southern California's MPW program ended in May 2016,[2][3][4][5] at which point it moved to the Vermont College of Fine Arts under the new name the School of Writing and Publishing.[6]
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Notable alumni of the USC program
- Millicent Borges Accardi, poet and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, author of four poetry books
- Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House
- Margaret Davis, author of biographies of William Mulholland and Edward L. Doheny
- Frederick Johnson, Emmy- and WGA Award-winning writer of daytime television serials
- Charlotte Laws, author and animal rights advocate
- EM Lewis, playwright
- Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author
- Gina Nahai, author of Cry of the Peacock
- Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books
- Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Charles_Harper_Webb, poet, Guggenheim Fellow
- Lee Wochner, playwright
Notable faculty of the USC program
- Shelley Berman, humor writing
- Nan Cohen, poetry
- Syd Field, screenwriting
- Janet Fitch, fiction
- Noel Riley Fitch, non-fiction
- Donald Freed, playwriting
- Amy Gerstler, poetry
- Dana Goodyear, non-fiction
- Janet Irvin, fiction
- Marty Isenberg, animation
- Irvin Kershner, cinema/TV
- Jerome Lawrence, playwriting
- Dinah Lenney, non-fiction
- Gerald Locklin, poetry, fiction
- Larry the Cable Guy, cinema/TV
- MG Lord, non-fiction
- Shelly Lowenkopf, fiction, publishing
- David Scott Milton, playwriting
- Gina Nahai, fiction
- Gabrielle Pina, fiction
- Robert Pirosh, cinema/TV
- Beata Pozniak, drama/film/TV
- Michael Price, animation writing
- James Ragan, poetry and program director for 25 years[7]
- John Rechy, fiction
- Aram Saroyan, poetry, fiction
- Hubert Selby Jr., fiction
- Melville Shavelson, cinema/TV
- Gay Talese, non-fiction
- Shirley Thomas, technical writing
- Kenneth Turan, film
- Lee Wochner, playwriting
- Richard Yates, fiction
References
- ^ Master of Professional Writing (MPW)
- ^ Students react to untimely closing of MPW Program
- ^ USC's "Business Decision" to Ax Its Master of Professional Writing Program Leaves Unanswered Questions
- ^ USC's MPW program to close in 2016 - but students want to save it
- ^ "USC: Master of Professional Writing". Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2014-10-31.
- ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (2014-05-01). "USC's MPW program moves to Vermont College of Fine Arts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "James Ragan biography". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
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