Below is a selection of dissertations from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in Wilkinson College that have been included in Chapman University Digital Commons. Additional dissertations from years prior to 2019 are available through the Leatherby Libraries' print collection.
Access to these theses is restricted to the student authors and select Chapman University faculty and staff.
Theses from 2025
Dawn Crusade: Time of the Templar, Eric Reed
Human Supermarket and Other Monster Stories, Lauren Sieberg
I Was a Mormon: I Knew it, I Lived it, I Left it, Tessa Woodall
Theses from 2024
Body as Kintsugi, Anthony Alegrete
Shivers, Casie Gambrel
The House of Half-Light, Diego Garcia
The Detectives Club, Yuya Hattori
I Have to Believe This Story to Live, Sarah Johnson
Fissure, Henneh Kwaku Kyereh
The Doldrums, Bailey Powell
Shanghai AroMap, Fiona Shen
A Siren of Terror, Tlotlo Tsamaase
Theses from 2023
Little Girls, Nour Abuelreich
The Second Life of the Nodosaur, Sinclair Adams
Hiraeth, Belana Beeck
Bitterroot Tea, Kimberly Madsen Bowcutt
You Can't Make Me: Stories, Kayla Chang
The Dragon in the Lake, Elizabeth Chen
The Night We Saw Together, Su Chen
Nightfall, Nicole Cook
If God Carried Water, Ximena Delgado Paredes
The Curse of the Rios Family, Samantha Diaz
The collection bag and other stories, Audrey Fong
Alpha Romeo, Todd Gilbert
Beaumont Court, Elena Goodenberger
You Can Find Me Here, Piper Gourley
Spring All Year Long and Other Stories, Kate Hampton
Short Stories From the Other World, Nina Handjeva-Weller
Reaching for Fairies, Rebekah Izard
Do Black Girls Go to Heaven?, Montez Jennings
DIY, Louis Labat
Amarie, Before and After, Matthew Lemas
The Apartments That Raised Me, Mikayla McLean
Clockwork Monstrum, Vesper North
On Becoming a Runner, Deborah Paquin
Shatter / Proof, Lydia Pejovic
Accordance, Isabelle Stillman
The Reaper, Elizabeth N. Tran
After the Body, Emily Velasquez
deep in the green lilac park, Constance von Igel de Mello
Theses from 2022
Autogynéphale, Jay Dye
Running Catalina, Megan Friess
Voice of a Matriarch Contemporary Diasporic West Asian Life Writing: Out of Armenia, Syria, and Lebanon, Maya Theresa Garabedian
It Could Happen to Anyone, Joshua D. Granite
End of the Road, Michael Khuraibet
Dangle Charm from Unblessed String, Ian Koh
Cold Comfort, Alec Meden
Notes of Venom and Vengeance, Makena Metz
The Cantankerous: A Ponderosa Pines Tale, Hannah Montante
The Barrier, Ansalee Morrison
Future Unlimited, Alexander Quintanilla
These Stars We Pray To, Janalee Tabayoyong
Becoming Brotherless, Aria Valle
Theses from 2021
Save Me A Song, Aysel Atamdede
The Aleph, Ariel Banayan
Circle Gets the Square, Cristian Bourgeois
Her Inner, Marrissa Childs
The Hidden Grave, Melissa Gaiti
A Collection of Short Stories： Too Real To Be Fake, Shengjie Ge
Seasons of Fate, Christopher Hines
Voodoo Dolls, Automatons, Avatars and Other Literary Doubles, Destiny Irons
I Took His Words, Rachel Jeffries
All You Knead Is Love, Ryan Alyson Johnson
Deficit, Phoebe Merten
Son of a Preacher Man & Other Poems, Daniel Miess
Carácter, Santa-Victoria Pérez
The Ghosts We Leave Behind: A Novel, Sam Risak
We Sink Beneath the Sand, Natalie Salagean
Circles of Dawn, Jason M. Thornberry
The Madness We Carry, Geneva Trelease-Gordon
Whispers From Scotland, Sarah Nicole Valadez
Vampire Money, Jacob VanWormer
The Terrarium, Paige Welsh
Mudlark, Candice Yacono
First Light, Tryphena Yeboah
Theses from 2020
Party on a Roof, Samer Alrayes
School of Artistas Inmigrantes, Manuel Calvillo de la Garza
The Sixth Try, Winnie Chak
Don't Ruin the Experience, Jocelyn Foster
Limerence: A Kaleidoscopic Coming Out Story, Matthew Goldman
A Pocketful of Secrets, Larissa Lacy
Thoughts From Your Bartender, Nikolas Loyatho
Dream On, Jonathan Moch
When It Was Us, Victoria O'Leary
From Sicily to America: An Immigrant's Story, Marco Randazzo
Ringed In Fire, Natalia Sanchez
Letters to a Dead Someone: Stories, Danielle Shorr
Wrestletopia: A Collection of Shorts, Daniel Strasberger
In the Middle of What, Ashley Teller
The Memory of the Universe, Karina Trejo Melendez
Lady Parts, Allie Vernon
Right There, Morgan Wilson
The Blizzard, Phil Wood
Little Monsters, Kati Zamani
Theses from 2019
The Tall-Men Are Real, Alex Athanail
Indiana and Other Indianas: Stories, Andrew Beckner
GROUPIE, Meg Boyles
Letty, Kevin Brown
The Searching Husband, Rahul Chak
The Watched, Sierra Ellison