MFA Creative Writing Program at FIU

Just announced: winners of the 2026 FIU Student Literary Awards! See them live and in person on April 9.

We are so proud of Rani Ruado, a graduate of the FIU MFA program and also an exceptional member of our creative writing team at the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus English Department office.

Congratulations, Ran, on winning RHINO Poetry's Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize for this haunting poem, "To Serve the Philippines."

POEMS — RHINO — To Serve the Philippines by Rani Ruado there is no such thing as excess in this archipelago.

Congratulations to MFA faculty members John Dufresne and Julie Marie Wade!

John’s novel My Darling Boy has received the gold medal for general fiction in this year’s Florida Book Awards, and Julie’s poetry collection Quick Change Artist has received the silver medal for poetry.

Campbell McGrath did us a solid when he invited Catherine Bowman to last night's Writers on the Bay Reading Series. Great turnout, reading, and Q&A!