Alumni Publications
Our MFA graduates and candidates include award-winning writers, published authors, and educators. Get a glimpse of a few of their newest publications above or see a full list below!
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)
Erica Berry
Wolfish (2023)
Victoria Blanco:
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance (2024)
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); DEED (2024)
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); Annika Rose (2024)
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)
Emily Strasser
Half-Life of a Secret (2023)
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)
Asha Thanki
A Thousand Times Before (2024)
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)