Our Adjunct Thesis Faculty includes an amazing list of nationally recognized writers who read your completed thesis manuscript and send you written personal comments, essentially offering you a one-to-one reading of the book that you will write during your time in the MFA Program at Texas State.

Current Adjunct Faculty

Fiction: Lee K. Abbott, Rick Bass, Ron Carlson, Charles D'Ambrosio, Rick DeMarinis, John Dufresne, Shelby Hearon, Bret Anthony Johnson, Carole Maso, Elizabeth McCracken, Antonya Nelson, Jayne Anne Phillips, Debra Spark, Marly Swick, Sharon Oard Warner, Kate Wheeler, and Terry Tempest Williams

Poetry: Craig Arnold, Carolyn Forche, James Galvin, Hettie Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Heather McHugh, Jane Mead, W. S. Merwin, David Mura, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Pattiann Rogers, Nicholas Samaras, Gerald Stern, Rosmarie Waldrop, Eleanor Wilner, Spencer Reese, and Mark Wunderlich