WELCOME TO CAFÉ MFA

Café MFA is a literary blog written by graduate students in American University's Creative Writing MFA program. These posts range in content including Second-Year Spotlights, coverage of local writing events, book reviews, writing tips, student work, and more! Café MFA is the lovable literary blog companion to FOLIO Literary Journal, which is also run by the graduate creative writing community here at American. We are happy to have you here!

- Hannah Cornell, EIC 2024-2026

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Second-Year Spotlight: Anna Morcerf

Anna Morcerf is a second-year student who primarily writes prose. We interviewed her to learn more about her thesis project, a novel called The Breakers.

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2025-2026 Editorial Team

Meet the editorial team for the 2025-2026 year of Café MFA.

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A Night with Marie Howe in Conversation with Kyle Dargan

Cafe MFA’s Editor-in-Chief, Hannah Cornell, recaps and shares her thoughts on Marie Howe’s visit to The Hill Center for their The Life of a Poet series.