Alumni Publications

Maureen Aitken:

The Patron Saint of Lost Girls (2018)

Mike Alberti

Some People Let You Down (2019)

D. Allen:     

A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe (2019)

Mark Anderson:    

Jesus Sound Explosion (2003)

Antonia Angress 

Sirens & Muses (2022)

Aaron Apps:    

Compos(t) Mentis (2009); Parrhesia (2009); Dear Herculine (2015); Intersex: A Memoir (2015)

Kendra Atleework:    

Miracle Country: The Fragile Joy of a Family and a Landscape (2020)

Swati Avasthi:    

Split (2010); Chasing Shadows (2013)

Deborah Bacharach:    

After I Stop Lying (2015)

Marge Barrett:    

My Memoir Dress (2011); Called: The Making and Unmaking of a Nun (2016)

Emily K. Bright:    

Glances Back (chapbook); Powerful Ideas in Teaching: Creating Environments Where Students Want to Learn (2012)

Matt Burgess:    

Dogfight: A Love Story (2010); Uncle Janice (2015)

Isaac Butler:    

The World Only Spins Forward (2018); The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act (2022)

Feng Sun Chen:    

Butcher's Tree (2012); Paul Thek (2012); The 8th House (2014)

Thomas Cook:    

Anemic Cinema (chapbook); Homespun (chapbook)

Amanda Coplin:    

The Orchardist (2012)

Colleen Coyne:    

Girls Mistaken for Ghosts (chapbook)

Jennine Capó Crucet:    

How to Leave Hialeah (2009); Make Your Home Among Strangers (2015); My Time Among the Whites (2019)

Lightsey Darst:    

Find the Girl: Poems (2010)Dance: Poems (2013); Thousands (2017)

Lucas De Lima:    

Wet Land (2014); Ghost Lines (2012, chapbook); Terraputa (2014, chapbook)

Meryl De Pasquale:    

Dream of a Perfect Interface (2013, chapbook)

Laressa Dickey:    

Bottomland  (2014); Roam (2016); Twang (2017); [apparatus for manufacturing sunset] (2014, chapbook); A Pictorial History of Wilderness (chapbook); Mimesis, Synaptic (chapbook); A piece of information about his invisibility (chapbook)

F.M.A. Dixon:

The Little House on Everywhere Street (2023)

Tarik Dobbs:

Dancing on the Tarmac (2021, chapbook); Nazar Boy (2024); Dearbornistan (2026)

Eric Dregni:    

Zamboni: The Coolest Machines on Ice (2019); You're Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp (2017); and many more; For the Love of Cod (2021); The Life Vespa (2018)

Matthew Duffus:    

Swapping Purples for Yellows (2019); Dubar’s Folly and Other Stories (2020)

Jonathan Escoffery

If I Survive You (2022)

Kevin Fenton:    

Merit Badges (2011); Leaving Rollingstone: A Memoir (2013)

Wendy Fernstrum:    

High Octane: How Minnesota Led the Nation in Ethanol Development (2007); One is the Holiest Number (#2) (2015)

Amanda Fields:    

My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (ed.) (2019)

Kristin Fitzsimmons:    

all these empty bone bowls (2013)

Laura Flynn:    

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir (2009)

Sari Fordham

Wait for God to Notice (2021)

Lauren Fox:    

Still Life With Husband (2007); Friends Like Us (2012); Days of Awe (2015); Send For Me (2021)

Sarah Fox:    

Because Why (2006); The First Flag (2013)

Sally Franson:    

A Lady's Guide to Selling Out (2018)

Christine Friedlander:    

AVANT GAUZE (2016)

Julie Gard:    

Obscura: The Daguerrotype Series (2007); Russia in 17 Objects (chapbook) (2011); Home Studies (2015)

Megan Gette

Majority Reef (2020)

Kathleen Glasgow:    

Girl in Pieces (2016); How to Make Friends With the Dark (2019); You’d Be Home Now (2020); The Agathas (2022)

Johannes Göransson:

Summer (2022)

Alex Grant:    

Collected Alex (novella) (2013); WAKE (2015)

torrin a. greathouse:

Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (2017); boy/girl/ghost (2018); Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (2020)

Roy Guzmán:    

Catrachos (2020)

Erin Hart:    

Haunted Ground (2003); Lake of Sorrows (2004); False Mermaid (2010); The Book of Killowen (2013)

Marianne Herrmann:    

Signaling for Rescue (2007)

Kate Hopper:    

Use Your Words (2012); Ready for Air (2013); Silent Running: Our Family's Journey to the Finish Line with Autism (co-author) (2015)

Patrick Hueller:    

Superstars of the San Antonio Spurs (as Paul Hoblin) (2015); Stu Stories (series) (2017, 2018); Read at Your Own Peril (2020); Kirsten Howard’s Biggest Fan (2020)

Su Hwang:    

BODEGA (2019)

Nicole Johns:    

Purge: Rehab Diaries (2009)

Cheri Johnson:    

Fun & Games (chapbook) (2009); Urban Legends (series) (as C. M. Johnson) (2017); Whodunit (series) (2017)

Stephanie Johnson:    

Kinesthesia (2010)

Emma Kaiser:

Groundbreaking Women in Politics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (2020); Dealing with Addiction: Smartphone Addiction (2022); Focus on Current Events: Protests (2023)

Miriam Karriker

Works on Paper or Without (2018)

Trevor Ketner

[White] (2021)

Molly Sutton Kiefer:    

The Recent History of Middle Sand Lake (chapbook) (2010); City of Bears (chapbook) (2013); Nestuary (2014)

Arlene Kim:    

What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? (2011)

Janna Knittel:    

Fish & Wild Life (2018)

Norah Labiner:    

Our Sometime Sister (1998); Miniatures (2002); German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons (2009); Let the Dark Flower Blossom (2013)

Brian Laidlaw:    

The Stuntman (2013); The Mirrormaker (2018)

Elizabeth Foy Larsen:    

Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun (co-author) (2012); 111 Places in the Twin Cities that You Must Not Miss (2017)

Ian Graham Leask:    

The Wounded and Other Stories (1992); House of Large Sizes (2016)

Sherry Quan Lee:    

A Little Mixed Up (1981); Chinese Blackbird (2002); How to Write a Suicide Note: Serial Essays that Saved a Woman's Life (2008); Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir (2014); How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse (2017)

David LeGault:    

One Million Maniacs: Beanie Babies, Killer Cars, and the Power of Collecting (2017)

Gretchen Legler:    

All the Powerful Invisible Things (1995); On the Ice (2005)

Alex Lemon:    

Mosquito (2006); Hallelujah Blackout (2008); Happy: A Memoir (2010); Fancy Beasts (2010); The Wish Book: Poems (2014); Feverland: A Memoir in Shards (2017); Another Last Day: Poems (2019)

Katie Hae Leo:    

Four Destinies (play); Attempts at Location (chapbook)

Ann Linde :    

Courting Light (chapbook)

Laurie Lindeen:    

Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story (2008)

Liana Liu:    

The Memory Key (2015); Shadow Girl (2017)

Carrie Lorig:    

The Pulp Vs. the Throne (2015); Repulsive Women: Five Increasing/Rhythms (2016); The Blood Barn (2019)

Éireann Lorsung:    

Music for Landing Planes By (2007); Her Book: Poems (2013); The Century (2020)

Jon Lurie:    

Canoeing with José (2017)

Brian Malloy:    

The Year of Ice (2002); Brendan Wolf (2007); Twelve Long Months (2008); After Francesco (2021)

Gayla Marty:    

Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm (2010)

Michelle Matthees:    

Junket (chapbook); Outside (chapbook); Served (chapbook); Flucht (2016)

Opal McCarthy:    

Surge: Poems (2016)

Alison McGhee:    

Rainlight (2001); Shadow Baby (2003); Was It Beautiful? (2003); All Rivers Flow to the Sea (2005); Falling Boy: A Novel (2007); Never Coming Back (2017); Pablo and Birdy (2017); What I Leave Behind (2018);  Dear Sister (co-author) (2019); World So Wide (2020); Where We Are (2020); The Opposite of Faith (2020); multiple children's books

Michelle McNamara:    

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018) 

Edward McPherson:    

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (2007); The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (2008); The History of the Future: American Essays  (2017); The History of the Future (2017)

Michael Medrano:    

Born in the Cavity of Sunsets (2009)

Kathleen Melin:    

By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children and Learning at Home (2008)

Susan V. Meyers:    

Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration Across the U.S.-Mexico Border (2014); Failing the Trapeze (2014)

Ben Meyerson

Holocene (2018); An Ecology of the Void (2019)

Zining Mok

The Orchid Folios (2020)

Rachel Moritz:    

The Winchester Monologues (2005); Night-Sea (2008); Borrowed Wave (2015); How Absence (2015); Sweet Velocity (2017); My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (ed.) (2019); Sweet Velocity (2017)

Scott Muskin:    

The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama's Boy and Scholar (2009)

Kevin O'Rourke:    

As If Seen at an Angle (2017)

Anna Cypra Oliver:    

Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story (2006)

Shannon Olson:    

Welcome to My Planet: Where English is Sometimes Spoken (2000); Children of God Go Bowling (2004)

Josh Ostergaard:    

The Devil's Snake Curve (2014)

Steve Pacheco:    

Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (2008)

Scott L. Parker:    

Running After Prefontaine (2011); Revisited: Notes on Bob Dylan (2012); A Way Home: Oregon Essays (2018)

Elissa Raffa:    

Freeing Vera (2005)

Nen Ramirez:

All Women Are Born Wailing (2023)

Anna  Reckin:    

Broder (2000); Three Reds (2011); Line to Curve (2018)

William Reichard:  

An Alchemy in the Bones (1999); The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: Gay Life in the 1940s (co-author) (2003); How To: Poems (2003); This Brightness: Poems (2007); Sin Eater (2010); American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice (co-author) (2011); As Breath In Winter (2015); Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity (2016); The Night Horse: New and Selected Poems (2018)

Karen Rigby:    

Festival Bone (2004); Savage Machinery: Poems (2008); Chinoiserie (2012)

Suzanne Rivecca:    

Death is Not an Option (2010); Yours Will Do Nicely (2011)

Ethan Rutherford:    

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories (2013); Farthest South and Other Stories (2021)

Kathryn Savage

Groundglass (2022)

Said Shaiye

ARE YOU BORG NOW? (2021)

Hunter Sharpless:    

Song of the Fool: On the Road with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers (2014)

Amy Shearn:    

How Far Is the Ocean from Here? (2008); The Mermaid of Brooklyn (2013); Unseen City (2020)

Mihret Sibhat

The History of a Difficult Child (2023)

Jonah C. Sirott:    

This Is the Night (2015)

Nate Slawson:    

Panic Attack, USA (2011)

Claire Stanford

Happy for You (2022)

Joyce Sutphen:    

Straight Out of View (1995); Coming Back to the Body (2000); Naming the Stars: Poems (2004); First Words: Poems (2010); After Words: Poems (2013); Modern Love and Other Myths (2015); The Green House (2017); Carrying Water to the Field (2019)

Yuko Taniguchi:    

Foreign Wife Elegy: Poems (2004); The Ocean in the Closet (2007)

Todd Temkin:    

Crazy Denizens of the Lost World (2005); Moriré en Valparaiso (2010)

Francine Tolf:    

Blue-flowered Sundress (chapbook) (2007); Like Saul (chapbook) (2008); Windy City Fragments (chapbook) (2009); Joliet Girl (2010); Rain, Lilies, Luck (2010); Eighteen Poems to God and a Poem to Satan (chapbook) (2012); Prodigal (2012); Shadow Town (2013); Joliet in My Blood (2015); How Still the Riddle (co-author) (2017)

Michael Walsh:    

The Dirt Riddles: Poems (2010); Sleepwalks (chapbook) (2012) 

Andria Williams:    

The Longest Night (2016)

Jennifer  Willoughby:    

Beautiful Zero (2015)

Mary Winstead:    

Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed America in 1964 (2002)

Elisabeth Workman:    

Ultramegaprairieland (2014); Endlessness Is No Desolation (2016)

Ryo Yamaguchi:    

The Refusal of Suitors (2015)

Shana Youngdahl:    

Donner: A Passing (chapbook) (2008); Of Nets (chapbook) (2010); History, Advice, and Other Half-truths (2012); Winter/Windows (2013); As Many Nows As I Can Get (2019)