• Dept. of English & Theatre
  • MFA in Creative Writing
  • Derek Nikitas, Director
  • 393 Case Annex
  • 521 Lancaster Avenue
  • Eastern Kentucky University
  • Richmond, KY 40475
  • Phone: 859-622-3091
  • Russell Helms, Coordinator
  • 478 Case Annex
  • 521 Lancaster Avenue
  • Eastern Kentucky University
  • Richmond, KY 40475
  • Phone: 859-622-3171

MFA Scrapbook


Winter Residency 2012, Lexington, Kentucky

Visiting Writer Glen Retief (l) and Students


Doug Brewer at the Student Reading


Book Signing, Julie Hensley, Oct. 27, 2011

MFA Faculty Member Julie Hensley and her latest chapbook, The Language of Horses.


Summer Residency 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland

Daytrip to the Firth of Forth


Pastoral Musings


MFA Director Young Smith

Summer Writing Conference 2011, Richmond

MFA Faculty Member Nancy Jensen


Visiting Novelist Pamela Schoenwaldt


MFA Director Young Smith

Winter Residency 2011, Lexington

Megan Abbott with students Bill Mullen, Katie Bathje, Joey Lee Campbell


Kaila Frierson and Eileen Casey


Brian Tucker and Bo McMillan


Derek Nikitas and Josh Gaylord


From L to R: Rebecca DeSensi Sivori, Joey Lee Campbell, Markus Jones, Lindsey Stockton

Summer Residency 2010, San Miguel de Allende

Relaxing in San Miguel de Allende


Inside the Poetry Workshop


At the Pyramids of Teotihuacan

Winter Residency 2010, Lexington

Joyce Carol Oates Reading


Steve Almond Reading

Jelly Bucket Reading, Author Social, Dec. 2009

Keen-Johnson Building


Raleigh Daley Jazz Trio


Jim Keller & Hank Lazer


Deana Nantz & Harry Brown

Summer Residency 2009, San Miguel de Allende

Kandice Gray and Bo McMillan


R Dean Johnson, Boyd, and a Friend


Tonya Hendren Reading


Asst. Professor Julie Hensley

Youth Writers Conference, Summer 2009, Cumberland Falls

Derek Nikitas and Students


Derek Nikitas, Deana Nantz, and Julie Hensley with Students


A Nature Walk with the Students


Outdoor Classroom