The following course instructors: Canisia Lubrin, Judith Thompson, Carrianne Leung, Catherine Bush, Michael Winter, Kevin Connolly, and Kyo Maclear (all included below) are potential Thesis Advisors and their full bios appear on the Course Instructors page. The Associated Faculty listed below are also available for thesis advising.
A full list of University of Guelph Faculty serving as Second Readers and Committee Chairs for the CW MFA, can be found at the bottom of this page.
I didn’t plan on becoming a writer. When my siblings and I set out to create a book about my father’s life story, it was simply decided that I would do the actual writing. I was the artsy one, after all. 
I credit myself as being a “playwright, performer and librettist.” However, before coming to the University of Guelph MFA program, I hadn’t written a play on my own in almost ten years.
I keep a chunk of quartz on my desk—a reminder to observe from all angles, to deepen, clarify, and sharpen the edges of my words. 
In the winter of 2009 I was in a beach hut in Belize, run by a local named Ignacio who was known to chase trespassers with a machete. One morning I found a Wi-Fi signal for the first time in days and opened my email to find an invitation to attend the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA. I grabbed my partner’s thigh and dug my fingernails into it, pointing at the screen without speaking.