Applicant Portal
The Get Started form can be used for submitting your APPLICATION and much more . To change your request later (e.g., to complete your application), fill out the form again. Your new responses will be merged with your previous ones based on your matching name, number, and email. Tip: To pre-fill responses from your previous […]
Mark Rotella
Mark Rotella is the Director of the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Montclair State University. In addition, Rotella also serves as thesis advisor in the MFA Program at Columbia University. Earning his B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Columbia University […]
Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is a prize-winning author and foreign correspondent. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Her newest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption and Separated Twins was published by Random House May 20, 2025 and has been listed by the […]
Project Waitlist
When our projects reach capacity, quite often we find there may be less than a handful of openings that are created before departure due to enrolled students who withdraw from the project for various reasons or from ieiMedia’s ability to expand capacity beyond the Project’s originally projected enrollment. Therefore, rather than closing enrollment and rejecting […]