Current Students

The Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) consists of a community of writers who engage the workshop as a springboard to begin drafting, writing, re-writing, and writing all over again, in a challenging and supportive environment. As the only Bilingual MFA program in the nation, the diversity of academic and writing is superlative, producing many award-winning manuscripts (see publications and Awards). The Undergraduate program is equally excellent and offers the undergrad student the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, consisting of 72 degree units.

However, an excellent writing program does not consist of writing workshops alone, but is constructed around the life of writers, the community fostered, the reading and literary events, the guest writers and speakers, public reading series, teaching colloquia, high-quality student produced literary journals, and the participations and engagement of the border community where it resides.

At the moment, MFA students come from all over the United States and Latin America. Prospective MFA students are encouraged to contact our current MFA students, who are ultimately our best advertisement, and inquire about their experience, their work and/or any other question they might have. (www.utep.edu & go to SEARCH on left side)

Zita Arocha: 1st Year, Non-Ficition

Silvana Ayala: 1st Year, Poetry

Diego Javier Bustos: 2nd Year, Ficition

Ana Lourdes Cárdenas: 1st Year, Non-Ficition, Fiction

Elisa Carreño: 3rd Year, Ficition

Camilo Castillo: 3rd Year, Ficition

Laura Cesarco Eglín: 2nd Year, Poetry

Byron Cross: 1st Year, Fiction

Verónica E. Guajardo: 3rd Year, Poetry

Sahalie Hashim: 1st Year, Fiction

Brianna L. Heisey: 3rd Year, Fiction

Trent D. Hudley: 3rd Year, Fiction

AJ Lechuga: 1st Year, Poetry

María M. Maloney: 2nd Year, Poetry

Jessica Miller: 3rd Year, Fiction

Juana Moriel: 2nd Year, Fiction

Hugo Montero: 1st Year, Fiction

Carla Newman: Poetry

José M. Palacios: 3rd Year, Fiction
Manuel J. Rincón: 2nd Year, Fiction 
Tanya Robertson: 1st Year, Fiction

Juan Pablo Román: 1st Year, Fiction

Tom Ruggier: Non-Fiction

Lucía Sanchez-Llorente: 1st Year, Fiction

Roberto Santos: 2nd Year, Fiction

César Silva Santisteban: 3rd Year, Fiction

Miranda Smith: 1st Year, Fiction

Francisco Tedeschi: Fiction