Current MFA Faculty & Staff

Browse profiles for faculty and staff on the UMass English Department website:

Poetry Faculty

• Abigail Chabitnoy: @email
• Peter Gizzi: @email
• Bianca Stone: @email (Visiting Faculty, Fall 2023)
• Hannah Brooks-Motl (Visiting Faculty, Spring 2024)

Fiction Faculty

• Edie Meidav: @email
• Sabina Murray: @email
• Jeff Parker: @email
• Monica Brashears: @email (Visiting Faculty, Fall-Spring 2024)

Administration

Jennifer Jacobson, Director of Community Engagement and Alumni Relations for the MFA and Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action

• Office: E357 South College
• Email: @email
• Phone: (413) 545-5510
• Jennifer Jacobson manages the Creative Writing Practicum in consultation with the Graduate Program Director and is responsible for the Applied Literary Arts Internship Program. She is the staff liaison for the Art Sustainability Activism series with the Fine Arts Center and School of Earth & Sustainability. She is the Co-Chair of Paperbark magazine’s Advisory Board. Former director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and Institute for Young Writers (2014–2022), Jennifer now serves as an advisor to the Institutes.

Ryan Mihaly, Program Coordinator

• Office: E349 South College
• Email: @email
• Phone: (413) 545-0643
• Responsible for student advising, academic support, and administrative matters including: registration and enrollment; degree requirements, thesis milestones, and graduation; travel / thesis grants, fellowships, teaching appointments, and MFA Awards. Hires, trains, and supervises Juniper Fellows. Manages programming including Visiting Writers Series, Writers @ Work, and the Juniper Literary Festival.