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Originally Posted by Senusret I
I just realized I didn't answer a single one of your questions.
I'm sorry.  I just got caught up in making sure you didn't repeat my mistakes. |
No, you did. I was looking for first hand experiences. And you're right. Most colleges don't hire professors without a PhD. I know my creative writing professor, who later became my advisor when I added the emphasis, only had his MFA but he had also had couple of chapbooks published and was at one point considered for Poet Laureate (I think he was like choice #99 out of 100 possibilities but still his name was in the pot). And my Lit Crit professor had only gotten that far as well but that's only two out of a faculty of twenty or so.
If I did decide to go for the MFA I would be doing it with the goal of teaching creative writing, either at a community college or adult education center, or possibly high school level. Somewhere the students are in it for enjoyment and not because they have ultimate designs on an MFA.