An excerpt from an article which peeks inside the MFA program...worth a read...

http://michigandaily.com/arts/01b-side-lead-mfa-program22

==’'On the most blustery of days, I ventured deep into South Campus. Tucked beneath the looming shadow of the Big House was Wolverine Press. After wandering through a maze of office cubicles, I was immediately transported back into an early 20th-century factory workshop. Though the area was austere in nature, Fritz Swanson was quite the opposite. A man with an orange beard that matched his neon T-shirt, he introduced me to the facility that houses the traditional letterpress print company that serves the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

The Helen Zell Writers’ Program is a top-ranked two-year Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, with cohorts in fiction and poetry. In the program, students work on their respective creative writing pieces while also serving as Graduate Student Instructors. At the end of the program, they essentially have completed a full body of work, and they proceed to embark on a third-year fellowship, with goals of publication.