Complex sentence: She was formally the director of the creative writing department at University of California, Riverside, where she still teaches, and co-founded the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts program.
Split into simpler sentences: She was formally the director of the creative writing department at University of California, Riverside, where she still teaches. She also co-founded the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts program.