Master of Professional Writing Program
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The Master of Professional Writing Program (referred to as MPW) is a graduate creative writing program which offers a variety of courses at the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.
MPW offers classes in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, technical writing, playwriting, and screen and television writing. The program awards an MPW or Master of Professional Writing.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House
- Margaret Davis, author of biographies of Mulholland and Doheny
- Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw
- Charlotte Laws, author and animal rights advocate
- EM Lewis - playwright
- Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author
- Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books
- Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madeline O'Hare
- Millicent Borges Accardi, National Endowment for the Arts winner poet
[edit] Notable faculty, past and present
- Shelley Berman - humor writing
- Nan Cohen - poetry
- Syd Field - screenwriting
- Janet Fitch - fiction
- Noel Riley Fitch - non-fiction
- Donald Freed - playwriting
- Amy Gerstler- poetry
- Dana Goodyear- non-fiction
- Janet Irvin - fiction
- Irvin Kershner - cinema/TV
- Jerome Lawrence - playwriting
- Dinah Lenney - non-fiction
- Gerald Locklin - poetry, fiction
- Larry the Cable Guy - cinema/TV
- MG Lord - non-fiction
- Shelly Lowenkopf - fiction, publishing
- David Scott Milton - playwriting
- Gina Nahai - fiction
- Gabrielle Pina - fiction
- Robert Pirosh - cinema/TV
- John Rechy - fiction
- Aram Saroyan - poetry, fiction
- Hubert Selby Jr. - fiction
- Melville Shavelson - cinema/TV
- Gay Talese - non-fiction
- Shirley Thomas - technical writing
- Kenneth Turan - film
- Richard Yates - fiction
