Take a look at this picture and tell me what you see:

That’s (from left) Katie Machen, Francesca Hyatt, Rebecca Suzuki, Marine Cornuet, Ammiel Alcalay, Radhika Singh, David Iaconangelo, Leo Grossman, Briallen Hopper, who all met up at Ammiel Alcalay and Mosab Abu Toha’s sold-out Poetry Project reading at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, February 12, 2025.

For other programs, having this many alums in a room is a rarity, happening only through universities trying to fleece donations or when someone is trying to start up a new reading series and needs to fill space in their lineup. That’s not us.

So much of what you achieve during an MFA is based on community, whether that’s the notes you get in workshop or the network you lean on when you’re looking for a job or to publish something. Why would you want that to stop after you graduate? What’s great about the Queens College MFA Program is that you become part of it for life. QC folks seek each other out, driven by that same hunger to build and grow as writers. We will show up at your reading! We’ll even buy the book!

Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

Take a look at some of our other alumni and see if you’d maybe what to become part of the QC MFA Program:

Our Alumni

Remember, our application deadline is March 15!