Thus, Columbia is your only choice. I would also look to many of other close-Ivy League schools in the Northeast like Colgate, Oberlin, Lehigh. Women’s schools like Wellesley and Swarthmore would be good choices also.

You need to stick to Liberal Arts focused schools rather than State schools which are more technical based. Because of default, they need to offer English & Literature, but nothing of substance happens there in terms of understanding literature in a better context.

Writing and English is definately a breadth coursework (rather than depth) and having a renouned department in English or Literature will make the difference.

Some consider writing as frosting to the cake, but remember, all cake mix tastes the same, and how the cake looks makes the sale.

I know that NYU has a grad creative writing program.