Master of Professional Writing Program
The Master of Professional Writing Program is a graduate degree program in professional writing.
Chatham University in Pennsylvania has is an online MPW program.[1] The University of Southern California's MPW program will be closing in May 2016.[2][3][4][5]
Notable alumni of the USC program
- Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House
- Margaret Davis, author of biographies of Mulholland and Doheny
- Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw
- Charlotte Laws, author and animal rights advocate
- EM Lewis - playwright
- Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author
- Gina Nahai - author of Cry of the Peacock
- Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books
- Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madalyn O'Hair
- Lee Wochner, plawright
- Millicent Borges Accardi, National Endowment for the Arts winner poet
Notable faculty, past and present, of the USC program
Gay Talese at the Strand Bookstore in New York City
- Shelley Berman - humor writing
- Nan Cohen - poetry
- Syd Field - screenwriting
- Janet Fitch - fiction
- Noel Riley Fitch - non-fiction
- Donald Freed - playwriting
- Amy Gerstler- poetry
- Dana Goodyear- non-fiction
- Janet Irvin - fiction
- Irvin Kershner - cinema/TV
- Jerome Lawrence - playwriting
- Dinah Lenney - non-fiction
- Gerald Locklin - poetry, fiction
- Larry the Cable Guy - cinema/TV
- MG Lord - non-fiction
- Shelly Lowenkopf - fiction, publishing
- David Scott Milton - playwriting
- Gina Nahai - fiction
- Gabrielle Pina - fiction
- Robert Pirosh - cinema/TV
- John Rechy - fiction
- Aram Saroyan - poetry, fiction
- Hubert Selby Jr. - fiction
- Melville Shavelson - cinema/TV
- Gay Talese - non-fiction
- Shirley Thomas - technical writing
- Kenneth Turan - film
- Lee Wochner, plawriting
- Richard Yates - fiction