Newport MFA in Creative Writing

Charles Coe is the author of five books of poetry: "All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents," "Picnic on the Moon," "Memento Mori," "Purgatory Road" and "Charles Coe: New and Selected Works," all published by Leapfrog Press. He is also author of 2014's "Spin Cycles," a novella published by Gemma Media that tells the story of a homeless man surviving on the streets of Boston. Coe was a 2017 artist-in-residence for the city of Boston, where he created an oral history project focused on residents of Mission Hill. He has been named a "Literary Light" by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina and at Bay Path University, where he teaches in both MFA writing programs. He serves on the steering committee of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union, a labor union that serves freelance writers.

Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels "Borderless," featured on the TODAY show, and "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From." She is also the author of "White Space: Essays on Culture, Race & Writing," which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. She is currently working on two children's picture books - "Sammy and Samuel" and a biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. She is also the editor of "Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education," an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology.

Alden Jones is the author of the memoirs "The Blind Masseuse" and "The Wanting Was a Wilderness" and the story collection "Unaccompanied Minors." Her short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, BOMB Magazine, New York Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, Agni, Post Road, The Barcelona Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review and Best American Travel Writing. Her awards include a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, the New York University Fellowship in Fiction, the New American Fiction Prize, two Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Alan L. Stanzler Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her books have been finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the Edmund White Award for Debut LGBTQ Fiction.

Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections "Tap Out" (Mariner, 2019), a New York Times "New & Noteworthy" pick, and "Fixer." His writing has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University (where he earned his MFA) and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems appear widely, including in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares and American Poetry Review. 

Tim Weed is the author of three books of fiction. His work has won multiple Writer's Digest annual fiction awards and has been shortlisted for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Fish International Short Story Award, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, the New Rivers Many Voices Project and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, The Writer's Chronicle, Talking Points Memo and elsewhere.