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 2026
All That Glitters...A Memoir, Karla Lau
California Gothic, Luke Van Amburg
Fragments of the Human Condition: A Collection of Short Stories, Daniel R. Mangru
Knowing Pain, Ma'ayan Simon
Mortal in Their Holdings: A Collection of Poems, Angelica F. Recierdo
Ordinary Time, Jim Gunshinan
Theses/Capstones from 2025
A Blessing in Disguise, Yohn L. Hall
Dancing with Ouroboros, Deidre Cavazzi
Dear Celeste, Diane Bouchard
Even Then I Knew, Andrea Clark
Gramacita, Max V. Bidasha
Just You Fucking Wait, Caitlin Howery
Obscure Saints & Sufficient Demons | POEMS, Ed Trafton
The Arrow, Landon C. Jones
The Cabin of Rocky Garston’s Refuge, Suzanne M. Nightingale
Travel/Log, Kristan Ruona
Walking on Clouds, Andrew R. Wilson
Wings and Wounds: Stories of War, Truth, and Other Casualties, Matthew Duerst
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