Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

 
The University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing combines the energy of a forward-thinking low-residency program with the solid educational excellence of the very best creative writing programs in the nation. Stonecoast is one of the nation’s leading low-residency MFA programs, ranked in the top ten low-residency programs by Poets&Writers since 2010, and is known for providing a superb, open-minded, and progressive education in the art of writing. Learn more

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Submissions from 2025

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Collected Work, Cassandra Mangano MFA '24

Submissions from 2024

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A Powerful Man & Other Stories, Heather Jones MFA '24

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Family Tree, Jessica M. Kormos MFA '24

Submissions from 2023

Here, After, and in the Shadow of Death, Chloie Piveral

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Sun Standing Stil, Veronica Sanitate MFA

Submissions from 2022

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Follow the Shimmer, Meghan Bradbury

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There Was Confusion, Carter Cumbo

Submissions from 2021

Octopolis, Lauren Andrea MFA

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Soul Siblings, Lucas Carroll-Garrett

Leia, Genevie Carter MFA

Undeadly Rescue, Kelly Danforth Merrill MFA

Submissions from 2020

Because I Could Not Stop For Death: A Novel, Christa Beauchamp MFA

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Words and Power: Four Stories of Women and the Unseen World, Elisabeth Brander

Red, Elise Bryant MFA

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Trash Keep Sell, Derek Castle

The Weight of Stories, Rickey Celentano

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Come Out the Other Side Okay: And Other Graffiti, Christopher Clark

Death & Couches, Amy Dempsey MFA

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We and the Woods, Jacqueline Evans

Sonata for Solo Horn and Ghosts: Recollections of My Life in Music, Bryn Margaret Grey

Afterlight, Jessica Halbhuber

Eäris Book One: Rebellion's Dawn, Odin Hartshorn Halvorson MFA

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Buried: Part One, Rebecca S. King

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A Sky Too Close to the Ground: Stories, Jessica Koch

Body: A Life in Parts, Nina B. Lichtenstein

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Off-Beats and Cross Streets: A Collection of Writing about Music, Relationships, and New York City, Tyler Scott Margid

Shape of a Mountain, Paulla Rich Estes MFA

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Bitterroot Part One: Dream-Ache, Delaney S. Saul

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The Last Light of Our Lives, Jacob Steponaitis

Love #Me Too, Meghan Vigeant

Submissions from 2019

Ontologies of the Unknown, Julie Adamo

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Handshaking Instructions, Felice Alexandra Austin

The Rules We Follow, Golden Baker

James and Natasha and Other Tales of Loss, Love, and Discovery, Kathryn Marie Balteff

Seize, Lindsey Christina Barlow

Disorder: A Novel, Emily Bernhard

Wired for Fear, Lee Bodkin

The Dead Land, Jessica Boynton

Raised by Wolves: Essays and Poems About Parenting and Being Parented, Jennifer Brooke

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Too Cool, Lillian Margaret Cary

The Cythara, Sandra Hylander Collier

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Validation Set, Christine Corbett Moran

Hunt Trail: A Novel, Katherine Elizabeth Cosgrove

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Diogo's Garden, Nadja Maril Crilly

My Name Is Not Flann Davigan, Devin Donovan

Writing the Underdog, Darcy Lee Duda

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A Rarity of One, Marianna Daly Edmunds

An Observation of Beautiful Forms, Teri Lynn Elam

Body War, Catherine Ellis Chambers

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Birdman and Other Essays and Stories, Lo Galluccio