Alumni Publications
Our MFA graduates include award-winning writers, published authors, and educators.
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A-C
Maureen Aitken:
The Patron Saint of Lost Girls (2018)
D. Allen:A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe (2019)
Mark Anderson:Jesus Sound Explosion (2003)
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)
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)
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D-F
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)
Eric Dregni:Zamboni: The Coolest Machines on Ice (2019); You're Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp (2017); and many more
Matthew Duffus:Swapping Purples for Yellows (2019)
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)
Lauren Fox:Still Life With Husband (2007); Friends Like Us (2012); Days of Awe (2015)
Sarah Fox:Because Why (2006); The First Flag (2013)
Sally Franson:A Lady's Guide to Selling Out (2018)
Christine Friedlander:AVANT GAUZE (2016)
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G-I
Julie Gard:
Obscura: The Daguerrotype Series (2007); Russia in 17 Objects (chapbook) (2011); Home Studies (2015)
Kathleen Glasgow:Girl in Pieces (2016); How to Make Friends With the Dark (2019)
Alex Grant:Collected Alex (novella) (2013); WAKE (2015)
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)
Su Hwang:BODEGA (2019)
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J-L
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)
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)
Ann Linde :Courting Light (chapbook)
Katie Hae Leo:Four Destinies (play); Attempts at Location (chapbook)
Laurie Lindeen:Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story (2008)
Liana Liu:The Memory Key (2015)
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)
Jon Lurie:Canoeing with José (2017)
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M-O
Brian Malloy:
The Year of Ice (2002); Brendan Wolf (2007); Twelve Long Months (2008)
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); What I Leave Behind (2018); Dear Sister (co-author) (2019); 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)
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)
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)
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)
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P-R
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)
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)
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S-T
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)
Jonah C. Sirott:This Is the Night (2015)
Nate Slawson:Panic Attack, USA (2011)
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)
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U-W
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)
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X-Z
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)