Alumni Books

Class of 2006

Jennifer Metsker
Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise, New Issues Press, 2021

Uwem Akpan
New York, My Village, W.W. Norton & Co., 2021
Say You're One of Them, stories, Little, Brown, 2008

Ariel Djanikian
The Office of Mercy, novel, Viking, 2013

Derek Mong
The Identity Thief, Poems, Saturnalia Books, 2018
The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin, co-translated from the Russian with Anne O. Fisher, White Pine Press, 2018
The Ego and the Empiricist (chapbook), Two Sylvias Press, 2017
Other Romes, poems, Saturnalia Books, 2011

Jenni Ferarri-Adler
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, Riverhead, 2007

Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts, Penguin, 2022
Little Fires Everywhere, Penguin 2017
Everything I Never Told You, Penguin, 2014

Preeta Samarasan
Tale of the Dreamer's Son, novel, World Editions, 2022
Evening Is the Whole Day, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Class of 2005

Natalie Bakopoulos
Scorpion Fish, novel, Tin House Books, 2020
The Green Shore, novel, Simon & Schuster, 2012

Charlotte Boulay
Foxes on the Trampoline, poems, Ecco, 2014

Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, Scribner, 2017
Men We Reaped: A Memoir, Bloomsburg USA, 2014
Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury USA, 2011
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Scribner 2017
Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury USA, 2011
Where the Line Bleeds, Agate Bolden, 2008

Class of 2004

Donovan Hohn
The Inner Coast: Essays, nonfiction, WW Norton & Company, 2020
Moby-Duck, nonfiction, Viking, 2011

Karen Outen
Dixon, Descending, Dutton, 2024

Suzanne Hancock
Cast from Bells, poems, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010
Another Name for Bridge, poems, Mansfield, 2005

Matthew Hittinger
The Masque of Marilyn, poems, GOSS183, 2017
The Erotic Postulate, poems, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014
Skin Shift, poems, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012
Narcissus Resists, poetry chapbook, GOSS183, 2009
Platos de Sal, poetry chapbook, Seven Kitchens Press, 2009
Pear Slip, poetry chapbook, Spire, 2007

Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves, Back Bay Books, 2010
The Historian, novel, Little, Brown, 2005

Rachel Richardson
Smother, W. W. Norton, 2025
Hundred-Year Wave, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016
Copperhead, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011
 

Class of 2003

Brent Armendinger
Undetectable, chapbook of poems, Diagram, 2009
Archipelago, poems, Noemi Press, 2009

Jaswinder Bolina
Of Color: Essays, McSweeney's Publishing, 2020
The 44th of July, Omnidawn, 2019
Phantom Camera, poems, New Issues, 2013
Carrier Wave, poems, University Press of Colorado, 2006

Sara Houghteling
Pictures at an Exhibition, novel, Knopf, 2009

Tung-Hui Hu
Greenhouses, Lighthouses, poems, Copper Canyon, 2013
Mine, poems, Ausable, 2007
The Book of Motion, poems, University of Georgia, 2003

Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Sightseeing, stories, Grove, 2005

Class of 2002

Phillip Crymble
Wide Boy, poems, Lapwing, 2007
Not Even Laughter, Salmon, 2015

Sharon Pomerantz
Rich Boy, novel, Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2010

Darcie Dennigan
Madame X, poems, Canarium Books, 2012
Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, poems, Fordham, 2008

Rae Gouirand
The Velvet Book, Cornerstone Press, 2024
Rough Sequence, Seven Kitchens Press, 2023
Little Hour, Swan Scythe Press, 2022
The History of Art, non-fiction, The Atlas Review, 2019
Jinx, poems, Seven Kitchens Press, 2019
Glass is Glass Water is Water, poems, Spork Press, 2018
Must Apple, poems, Educe Press, 2018
Open Winter, poems, Bellday Books, 2011

Sarah Wolfson
A Common Name for Everything, Green Writers Press, 2019

Class of 2001

Margaret Lazarus Dean
Endurance (with Scott Kelly), Knopf, 2017
Leaving Orbit, Graywolf Press, 2015
The Time It Takes to Fall, Simon & Schuster, 2007

Chris Hebert
The Boiling Season, novel, HarperCollins, 2012

Scott Hutchins
A Working Theory of Love, Penguin, 2012

Stefan Kiesbye
Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone: A Novel, Penguin Books, 2012
Next Door Lived a Girl, novel, Low Fidelity, 2005

Valerie Laken
Separate Kingdoms: Stories, Harper Perennial, 2011
Dream House, novel, HarperCollins, 2009

Sean Norton
Bad With Faces, poems, Red Morning, 2005

Benjamin Paloff
Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe, Northwestern University Press, 2016
And His Orchestra: Poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014 
The Politics, poems, Carnegie Mellon, 2011

Jess Row
Your Face in Mine, Riverhead, 2014
Nobody Ever Gets Lost, stories, FiveChapters Books, 2011
The Train to Lo Wu, stories, Dial, 2005

Class of 2000

Jason Bredle
Carnival, University of Akron Press, 2012
The Book of Evil, Dream Horse Press, 2011
Smile of the Unstoppable, Magic Helicopter Press 2011
Class Project, Publishing Genius Press, 2010
Pain Fantasy, Red Morning Press, 2007
Standing in Line for the Beast, poems, New Issues, 2006
A Twelve Step Guide, poems, Diagram/New Michigan, 2004

Francesca Delbanco
Ask Me Anything, Norton, 2005
Midnight in Manhattan, Orion, 2005

Patrick O'Keeffe
The Visitors, Viking, 2014
The Hill Road, novel, Viking, 2005

Lynn Stanley
Gravity Claims Us, chapbook of poems, Folly Cove, 1998

Class of 1999

Lizzie Hutton
She'd Waited Millenia, poetry, New Issues, 2011

Class of 1998

Eric (Breedon) Leigh
Harm's Way, poetry, University of Arkansas, 2010

Christine Montross
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of Mass Incarceration, Penguin Press, 2020
Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis, Penguin Press HC, 2013
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, nonfiction, Penguin, 2007

Bich Minh Nguyen
Pioneer Girl: A Novel, Viking Adult, 2014
Short Girls, novel, Viking Penguin, 2009
Stealing Buddha's Dinner, memoir in essays, Viking Penguin, 2007

Ron Nyren
Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers (with Sarah Stone, '98), Pearson, 2004

Porter Shreve
The End of the Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2014
When the White House Was Ours, novel, Mariner, 2008
Drives Like a Dream, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
The Obituary Writer, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2000

Sarah Stone
Longman Guide to Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Writing, Sourcebooks, 2007
Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide to Intermediate and Advanced Writing (with Ron Nyren '98), Pearson, 2004
The True Sources of the Nile, novel, Doubleday, 2002

Class of 1997

John Fulton
The Animal Girl, Louisiana State Univ Press, 2007
More than Enough, novel, Picador USA, 2002
Retribution, stories, Picador USA, 2001

Amy Barry
Controvertibles, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2004
Asylum, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2001

Ronica Dhar (Bhattacharya) 
Bijou Roy, novel, St. Martin's Press, 2010

Gabrielle Hamilton 
Blood, Bones, & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, memoir, Random House, 2011

Jardine Libaire 
The Upper Class, HarperCollins, 2009
Crash Test: An Upper Class Novel, HarperTeen, 2008
French Women Don't Get Caught: The Secret Art of Infidelity Revealed, Globe Pequot Press, 2008
Off Campus: An Upper Class Novel, HarperTeen 2008
Miss Educated: An Upper Class, HarperTeen, 2007
Here Kitty Kitty, novel, Little, Brown, 2004

Deanne Lundin
The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook, poetry, New Issues, 1999

Marc Nesbitt 
Gigantic, stories, Grove, 2002

Spencer Short
Tremolo: Poems, Harper Collins, 2001

Glori Simmons 
Carry You, stories, Autumn House Press, 2018
Suffering Fools, stories, Willow Springs Books, 2017
Graft, poems, Truman State University, 2001

Class of 1996

Scott Beal 
Two Shakespearean Madwomen vs. the Detroit Red Wings, chapbook of poems, White Eagle Coffee Store, 1999

Michael Byers 
Percival's Planet, novel, Henry Holt & Co., 2010
The Broken Man, novella, PS Publishing, 2010
Long for this World, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2003
The Coast of Good Intentions, stories, Houghton-Mifflin, 1998

Susan Hutton 
On the Vanishing of Large Creatures, poetry, Carnegie Mellon, 2007

Paula McLain 
The Paris Wife, novel, Ballantine, 2011
A Ticket to Ride, novel, Ecco, 2008
Stumble, Gorgeous, poems, New Issues, 2005
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, A Memoir, Little, Brown, 2003
Less of Her, poems, New Issues, 1999

Elwood Reid 
D.B., novel, Doubleday, 2004
Midnight Sun, novel, Doubleday, 2000; Anchor (paperback), 2002
What Salmon Know, stories, Doubleday, 1999
If I Don't Six, novel, Doubleday, 1998

Paisley Rekdal 
Animal Eye, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
Intimate, hybrid photo-text memoir, Tupelo Press, 2011
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
Six Girls Without Pants: Poems, Eastern Washington University, 2002
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee : Observations on Not Fitting In, essays, Pantheon, 2000; Vintage Books (paperback) 2002
A Crash of Rhinos, poems, University of Georgia, 2000

Leah Stewart 
The History of Us: A Novel, Touchstone, 2013
Husband and Wife, Harper Perennial, 2011
The Myth of You and Me, Three Rivers Press, 2006
Body of a Girl, Viking, 2000; Penguin USA (paperback), 2001

Class of 1995

Brenda Cardenas
Trace: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2023
Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (co-author), Spuyten Duyvil Press and Dispatches Editions, 2017
Bread of the Earth / The Last Colors (co-authored), chapbook, Decentralized Publications, 2011
Boomerang, Bilingual Review Press, 2009
Achiote Seeds / Semillas de Achiote (co-authored), chapbook, Achiote Press Chapbook Division, 2008
From the Tongues of Brick and Stone, chapbook, Momotombo Press, 2005
Between the Heart and the Land/ Entre el corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (co-editor), anthology, March/Abrazo, 2001

Michael Loncar 
66 Galaxie, poems, Middlebury College, 1998

Raymond McDaniel
Special Powers and Abilities, poems, Coffee House, 2013
Saltwater Empire, poems, Coffee House, 2008
Murder (a violet), poems, Coffee House, 2004

Patricia Ward 
The Bullet Collection, novel, Graywolf, 2003

Class of 1994

Arthur Corriveau 
13 Hangman, Harry N. Abrams, 2012
How I got a Life and a Dog, Amulet Books, 2012
How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog), Amulet, 2010
Blood Pudding, Vehicule Press, 2008
Auf der anderen Seite des Tals, Fischer Taschenbuch, 2005
Housewrights, novel, Penguin, 2002

Josie Kearns 
The Theory of Everything, poems, Mayapple Press, 2009
Alphabet of the Ocean, poems, March Street Press, 2009
New Numbers, poems, New Issues, 2000
Life After the Line, Wayne State University, 1990

Kate Larrabee 
An Everyday Savior, novel, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002

Suzanne Wise 
The Kingdom of the Subjunctive, poems, Alice James, 2000

Class of 1993

Susan Gilman
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Grand Central, 2014
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Grand Central, 2010
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, memoir, Warner, 2005
Kiss My Tiara, essays and pieces, Warner, 2001

Josh Henkin 
The World Without You, novel, Pantheon, 2012
Matrimony, Pantheon, 2007
Swimming Across the Hudson, novel, Putnam & Sons, 1997

Timothy Martin 
Tesserae (Poems), Orchard Street Press, 2022
Drowning at the Pool Part for Lifeguards, Prolific Press, 2018
Stealing Hymnals from the Choir, poems, FutureCycle, 2010

Sebastian Matthews
Miracle Day: Mid-Life Songs, Red Hen Press, 2012
We Generous, poems, Red Hen, 2007
Coming to Flood, chapbook of poems, Hollyridge, 2005
In My Father's Footsteps: A Memoir, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Weeding My Father's Garden, memoir, W.W. Norton, 2004
The Green Man Walks Across America, poems, Salmon, 2003

Class of 1992

Victoria Chang 
The Boss, McSweeney's, 2013
Salvinia Molesta, poems, University of Georgia, 2008
Circle, poems, Southern Illinois University, 2005
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, University of Illinois Press, 2004

Sara Corbett 
A House in the Sky, (co-author with Amanda Lindhout), Scribner, 2013
Venus to the Hoop : A Gold-Medal Year in Women's Basketball, Doubleday, 1997

David Ikeda Stewart
What the Scarecrow Said, Harper Collins/Regan, 1996

Daniel Lyons 
Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, Da Capo Press, 2008
Dog Days, novel, Simon and Schuster, 1998
The Last Good Man, novel, University of Massachusetts, 1993
The First Snow, stories, University of Massachusetts, 1993

James Mayes 
Small Favors, stories, Alyson, 1994, (paperback) 1998

Class of 1991

Allison Swan
A Fine Canopy, Wayne State University Press, 2020
Before the Snow Moon, Alice Green & Co., 2013
Dog Heart, Alice Green & Co., 2011
Fresh Water, Michigan State University Press, 2007

Susan Comninos 
Out of Nowhere, Stephen F. Austin University Press / Texas A&M, 2022
Poems featured in The Blueline Anthology, Syracuse University, 2004

Miles Harvey
Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, Random House, 2008
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, nonfiction, Broadway, 2000, G. K. Hall & Co. (largeprint edition), 2001

William Lychack
The Architect of Flowers, stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
The Wasp Eater, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Games People Play, Children's Press, 1995 (England), 1996 (Russia)

Sarah Messer 
Red House: A Memoir of Place, Viking, 2002
Bandit Letters: Poems, New Issues, 2001

Michael Paterniti 
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese, The Dial Press, 2013
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain, Dial, 2000; G K Hall & Co. (largeprint), 2000; Dell (paperback), 2001

Rebecca Reynolds 
The Bovine Two-Step, poems, New Issues, 2002
Daughter of the Hangnail, poems, New Issues, 1997

David Wolf
Sablier, Indo American Books, 2007
The Moment Forever, Indo American Books, 2007
Open Season, poems, Center Press, 1999

Class of 1990

David Edwards
Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media, Pluto Press, 2005
The Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism, Green Books, 1998
Newspeak in the 21st Century, Pluto Press, 2009
Burning All Illusions: A Guide to Personal and Political Freedom, South End, 1996
Free to be Human: Intellectual Self-Defense in an Age of Illusions, Green, 1995

John Reinhard
On the Road to Patsy Cline, poems, New Rivers, 1996
Burning the Prairie, poems, New Rivers, 1988

Ruth Schwartz
Death in Reverse: A Love Story, Michigan State University Press, 2004
Edgewater, poems, Harper Perennial, 2002
Singular Bodies, poems, Anhinga, 2001
Accordian Breathing and Dancing, University of Pittsburgh, 1996; (paperback) 1995