Dominican offers a unique low-residency MFA in Creative Writing, located in the vibrant community of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with tracks in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, our program offers an optional emphasis in narrative / poetic medicine.
Here, you'll find a collection of master's theses produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
Theses/Capstones from 2024
Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine, Meg Neville
Eyes Wide Open: Stories of Grief, Loss, and Transformation through Narrative Medicine, Melanie Dines
Fine, I'm A Terrible Person, Lisa Rosenberg
These Are (Not) Haiku, Michael Pelletier
UNstuck in Six Decades, a lyrical memoir with ArtPoems, Reneé Marie
Theses/Capstones from 2023
A Collection of Prose, Britta Stromeyer Esmail
Divining the Silhouette (poetry), Allison Baldwin
Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery, Abby Peyton Laporte
New York Expressionism, David Klaviter
Out of the Unexpected: poems with Sappho, Nichole Turnbloom
Pelagia's Journey To The Center Of The Realm, Paraskevi Diamantidis
Sting of the Gallfly, Matthew Kline
The Ending, a Novel, Bonnie Carasso
The Horror in the Jungle of the Mind, Vivian Bruce
The Perfect Cell, Erika Smith
Uncorked, a memoir, Mary Rosenthal
We Were Such a Happy Family: Lessons in Imperfection, Elizabeth Toner
Theses/Capstones from 2022
A Collection of My Work, Sandy White
A Path Lined with Pomegranates, Christina Lopez
Live Free or Die, Kim Marcellino
StarSung: A Timeslip Novel, Cindy Pavlinac
Still Standing, Capella Parrish
Theses/Capstones from 2021
ANOMALIES ZERO and BRIGHTWOOD (Two Screenplays), Nancy K. Weirum
I'd Like to File a Complaint, Mary Arnold
Random Acts, Sonya L. Evans