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Education Life. Why Writers Love to Hate the M.F.A. It was peak reading season, and Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writersâ Workshop, was gamely juggling a call from a reporter, interruptions from her 7-year-old as well as a 10 percent surge in applications to the University of Iowaâs Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.