The Iowa State University is located in Ames, IA offers a 3 year fully funded MFA in creative writing that emphasizes study in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama—that encourages writers to identify and explore in their stories and lyric impressions the complex influences of place, the natural world, and the environmental imagination. Include a rigorous combination of creative writing workshops, literature coursework, environmental fieldwork experience, interdisciplinary study in courses other than English. Through the teaching assistantships, MFA students receive $19,250 over 10 months and also receive a full-tuition waiver scholarship (approximate value $9,758) and health insurance.