Ms. Amina Cain

Amina Cain received her MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a recipient of the 1999 graduate writing fellowship. She is the author most recently of the short story collection Creature (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013) and a novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Stories and essays have appeared in BOMB, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, Full Stop, Vice, the Believer Logger, and other places. She is currently working on a book of essays on the space of reading and writing fiction. In the MCW Program, she coordinates the fiction workshops and thesis courses.

Ms. Amina Cain

Contact Information

Ms. Amina Cain

College: School of Arts, Letters, and Sciences

Department: Arts & Humanities

[email protected]

(310) 662-2165

Los Angeles Campus

Education

Art Institute of Chicago - MFA - Writing