The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars is an academic program offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in writing in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

. Writers Jean McGarry

Jean McGarry

Jean McGarry is an author of fiction and a Professor in the program at Johns Hopkins University. She served as chairperson of the department from 1997-2005.She received her BA from Harvard in 1970, and an MA in Writing from JHU in 1983....

 and Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...

 currently co-chair the department.

Founded in 1947, notable faculty of the program have included John Barth

John Barth

John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...

, Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...

, Stephen Dixon

Stephen Dixon

Stephen Dixon is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and short stories.- Biography :Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate. Dixon was one of seven children in the family...

, John Irwin

John Irwin

John Thomas Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English department at Johns Hopkins University.-Background:...

, Mark Strand

Mark Strand

Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...

, and J.D. McClatchy

J.D. McClatchy

J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.-Life:...

. Distinguished graduates of the Writing Seminars include Wes Craven

Wes Craven

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...

 and Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires

-Life:She was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, and in many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her...

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In 1997, US News and World Report ranked the program second in the United States out of sixty-five eligible full-residency MFA programs. In 2011, Poets and Writers ranked Hopkins seventeenth nationally out of 157 eligible full-residency MFA programs.

Degree Programs

• Writing Seminars B.A. Degree
• MFA in Fiction and Poetry
• Master's of Arts in Science Writing

Turnbull Lectures

The Writing Seminars hosts the Turnbull Lectures, a yearly lecture series on the topic of poetry. The series was established in 1891 and has run almost continuously between the years 1891-1984 and 2000–present. Recent lecturers have included Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur

Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....

, Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...

, Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly is an American poet, who is professor of English and director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program....

, Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including Early Auden and Later...

 and Edna Longley

Edna Longley

Edna Longley is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.Now Professor Emerita at Queen's University Belfast, as a lecturer and later Professor of English at Queen's, Longley exerted a significant moderating and enabling influence on the...

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External links

• Writing Seminars homepage at the JHU website