Past Faculty

Phillips, Carl

Betty Adcock
Joan Aleshire
Agha Shahid Ali
Tom Andrews
A. Manette Ansay
Elizabeth Arnold
David Baker
Wilton Barnhardt
Rick Barot
Don Belton
Karen Bender
Adria Bernardi
Sharon Bryan
Peter Cooley
Justin Cronin
Charles D’Ambrosio
Tracy Daugherty
Carl Dennis
Stacey D’Erasmo
Stuart Dischell
Stephen Dobyns
Judy Doenges
Stephen Dunn
Stuart Dybek

Aleshire, Joan
Orlen, Steve

Kim Edwards
Lynn Emanuel
Susan Engberg
Elizabeth Evans
B.H. Fairchild
Roger Fanning
Chris Forhan
Carol Frost
Louise Glück
Barbara Greenberg
Linda Gregerson
Judith Grossman
Allan Gurganus
Matthea Harvey
Ehud Havazelet
Robert Hemenway
Laura Hendrie
Edward Hirsch
Tony Hoagland
Jonathan Holden
Marie Howe
David Huddle
Mark Jarman
Diane Johnson

Russo, Richard
Hoagland, Tony

Joyce Johnson
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Pagan Kennedy
Laila Lalami
Victor LaValle
Mary Leader
Larry Levis
James Longenbach
Thomas Lux
Thomas Mallon
Kai Maristed
Michael Martone
Grace Dane Mazur
Campbell McGrath
Erin McGraw
James McMichael
Christopher McIlroy
Kevin McIlvoy
James McManus
T.M. McNally
Claire Messud
Lisel Mueller
Susan Neville
Steve Orlen

Gluck, Louise

Gregory Orr
Tom Paine
Alex Parsons
Janet Peery
Kathleen Peirce
Lucia Perillo
Katie Peterson
Carl Phillips
Connie Porter
Francine Prose
Nahid Rachlin
Claudia Rankine
Barbara Ras
Frederick Reiken
Mary Elsie Robertson
Marilynne Robinson
Kenneth Rosen
Mary Ruefle
Richard Russo
Michael Ryan
Ira Sadoff
Steven Schwartz
Jim Shepard
Grace Shulman

Dobyns, Stephen

John Skoyles
Tom Sleigh
Jane Smiley
Dave Smith
Marcia Southwick
Irini Spanidou
Megan Staffel
Maura Stanton
Susan Stewart
Darcy Steinke
Ruth Stone
Sarah Stone
Jean Thompson
Pimone Triplett
Douglas Unger
Jean Valentine
Chuck Wachtel
Diana Wagman
James Wilcox
Anne Winters
Geoffrey Wolff
Renate Wood
Susan Wood
Robert Wrigley
Dean Young

The MFA Program for Writers at Goddard College (1976-1980)

Ellen Bryant Voigt founded the nation’s first low-residency MFA Program at Goddard College in Vermont in 1976. The program relocated to Warren Wilson College in 1981.

MFA 1979

Faculty and students at Goddard, 1979: BACK: Barbara Greenberg, Robert Hass, Tobias Wolff, Marita Garin, Faye Kicknosway, Raymond Carver, Geoffrey Wolf, Donald Hall, Michael Ryan, Stephen Dobyns. FRONT: Lisel Mueller, Ann Blackmer, Deborah Tall, Jane Shore, Janet Bloom, Heather McHugh, Gloria Still, Linda Nemec Foster, Louise Glück

Goddard Faculty

Don Bredes
Rosellen Brown
Mary Carter
Raymond Carver
George Chambers
Frank Conroy

Stephen Dobyns
Richard Ford
Louise Glück
Barbara Greenberg
Donald Hall

Robert Hass
David Huddle
John Irving
Faye Kicknosway
Thomas Lux

William Matthews
Heather McHugh
Lisel Mueller
Craig Nova
Steve Orlen
Joyce Peseroff

Richard Rhodes
Michael Ryan
Jane Shore
Stephen Tapscott
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Geoffrey Wolff