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Inspiring Great Works
LSU has served as the starting place for countless influential writers
of this century. Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Walker
Percy, Miller Williams, Valerie Martin, and John Gregory Brown, along
with many others, were associated with LSU as students, editors, or teachers.
Today, LSU continues to produce some of the great writers of tomorrow.
The LSU Creative
Writing Program in the Department
of English mentors undergraduate and graduate students seeking Bachelor
of Art (B.A.) or Master of Fine Art (M.F.A.) degrees in the areas of screenwriting,
playwriting, translation, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The program
boasts an impressive list of more than 100 LSU M.F.A. alumni who have
published more than 50 books, with additional books coming out each year.
In addition to establishing themselves as writers, graduates of the program
have become notable editors in the literary world or teachers at other
prestigious universities.
Alumni from the M.F.A. program include Barbadian poet Tony Lewis, nonfiction
writer Dinty Moore, novelist and best selling children's book author Connie
Porter, metafictionist Jacques Servine, novelist and anthologist Virgil
Suarez, and fiction writer and translator Betsy Wing. New York film critic
Rex Reed, political strategist and writer James Carville, and novelist
John Ed Bradley also took creative writing classes at LSU.
Many young writers have chosen LSU's Creative Writing Program because
of the supportive and talented faculty, which includes several nationally
prominent writers. Among the faculty are novelist James Gordon Bennett;
screenwriter Rick Blackwood; poet, journalist, National Public Radio commentator,
editor, and film maker Andrei Codrescu; fiction writer Moira Crone; playwright
and director Femi Euba; non-fiction writer and poet Rodger Kamenetz; and
novelist and literary anthologist David Madden. Novelist James Wilcox
recently joined the LSU English department as the new director of the
Creative Writing Program.
Last updated September 2002
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