Recent Alumni Publications
Mike Alberti (MFA 2016), Some People Let You Down: Stories (University of North Texas Press, 2020)
Antonia Angress (MFA 2021), Sirens and Muses [novel] (Ballantine Books, 2022)
Kendra Atleework (MFA 2016), Miracle Country: A Memoir (Algonquin Press, 2020)
Maria Bamford (BA 1993), Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere (Gallery, 2023)
Marge Barrett (MFA 2005), If You Have Something to Say, Margaret: Poems (WordTech Communications, 2020)
James J. Berg (PhD 1996), co-editor, Isherwood in Transit (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)
Erica Berry (MFA 2018), Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Macmillan, 2023)
Daniel Birkholz (PhD 1999), Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History and the Medieval Miscellany (Manchester University Press, 2020)
Victoria Blanco (MFA 2013), Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance (Coffee House Press, 2024)
Isaac Butler (MFA 2013), The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Scott Dominic Carpenter (BA 1980), French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Travelers' Tales, 2020)
Mary Casanova (BA 1981), Waterfall [novel] (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Taiyon J. Coleman (PhD 2013, MFA 2003), Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
Jennine Capó Crucet (MFA 2006), Say Hello to My Little Friend [novel] (Riverrun/Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Catherine Dang (BA 2017), Nice Girls [novel] (HarperCollins, 2021)
Lucas De Lima (MFA 2012), Tropical Sacrifice [poetry] (Birds LLC, 2022)
Sierra DeMulder (BA 2014), Ephemera [poetry] (Button Poetry, 2023)
Carl Dennis (BA 1961), Earthborn [poetry] (Penguin Random House, 2022)
F. M. A. Dixon (MA 1989), The Little House on Everywhere Street [young adult novel] (Fitzroy Books, 2022)
Tarik Dobbs (MFA 2022), Nazar Boy [poetry] (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Tarik Dobbs (MFA student), Dancing on the Tarmac [poetry] (Yemassee Journal, 2021)
Eric Dregni (MFA 2007), For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Matthew Duffus (MFA 2005), Dunbar’s Folly and Other Stories (Unsolicited Press, 2020)
Julie A. Eckerle (PhD 2002), editor, Dorothy Calthorpe: News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe's Chapel (Iter, 2023)
Jonathan Escoffery (MFA 2014), If I Survive You [novel] (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)
Sari Fordham (MFA), Wait for God to Notice [memoir] (Etruscan Press, 2021)
Lauren Fox (MFA 1998), Send for Me [novel] (Knopf, 2021)
Sally Franson (MFA 2013), Big in Sweden [novel] (Mariner/HarperCollins, 2024)
Julie Gard (MFA 2000), I Think I Know You [poetry] (FutureCycle Press, 2023)
M. J. Gette (MFA 2017), Majority Reef: Poems (Inside the Castle, 2020)
Peter Geye (BA 2000), Northernmost [novel] (Knopf, 2020)
Peter Geye (BA 2000), The Ski Jumpers (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
Kathleen Glasgow, co-author (MFA 2002), The Night in Question [young adult novel] (Delacorte, 2023)
Kathleen Glasgow co-author (MFA 2002), The Agathas [young adult novel] (Delacorte, 2022)
Kathleen Glasgow (MFA 2002), You'd Be Home Now [young adult novel] (Delacorte Press, 2021)
Johannes Göransson (BA 1996), Poetry Against All: A Diary (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020)
Johannes Göransson (BA 1996), Summer [poetry] (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2022)
Torrin A. Greathouse (MFA candidate), Wound from the Mouth of a Wound: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
Roy Guzmán (MFA 2017), Catrachos: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020)
Joseph Harris (MFA 2018), You're in the Wrong Place: Stories (Wayne State University Press, Made in Michigan Writer’s Series, 2020)
Margaret Hasse (MA 1983), Summoned [poetry] (Nodin Press, 2021)
Judith Koll Healey (BA 1961), King's Bishop: A Fictional History [novel] (Calumet Press, 2023)
Judith Koll Healey (BA 1961), The Fire Thief: A Life in Poems (Calumet Press, 2021)
Will Hermes (MA 1995), Lou Reed: King of New York (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
Patricia Hodgell (PhD 1987), as P. C. Hodgell, Deathless Gods [novel] (Baen Books, 2022)
Kat Howard (PhD 2009), A Sleight of Shadows [novel] (Saga Press, 2023)
Patrick Hueller (MFA 2010), Read at Your Own Peril [young readers] (INtense Publications, 2020)
John Jodzio (BA 1994), This Was the Decade I Kept Getting Stabbed [stories] (The Cupboard, 2022)
Cheri Johnson (MFA 2005), The Girl in Duluth [novel] (Independently published, 2022)
Cheri Johnson (MFA 2005), Annika Rose [novel] (Red Hen Press, 2024)
Jayashree Kamblé (PhD 2008), Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana University Press, 2023)
Trevor Ketner (MFA 2016), The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire [poetry] (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)
Trevor Ketner (MFA 2016) [WHITE] [poetry] (University of Georgia Press, 2021)
Janna Knittel (MFA 2016), Real Work [poetry] (Nodin Press, 2022)
Brian Laidlaw (MFA 2011), This Aster [music album] (Fonograf Editions, 2021)
Michael Lee (BA 2015), The Only Worlds We Know: Poems (Button Poetry, 2020)
Gretchen Legler (PhD 1994), Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life (Trinity University Press, 2022)
Mary Logue (BA 1975), The Big Sugar [young adult novel] (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Éireann Lorsung (MFA 2006), The Century [poetry] (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
Brian Malloy (MFA 2006), After Francesco [novel] (John Scognamiglio Books, 2021)
Michelle Matthees (MFA 2001), Complicated Warding [poetry] (Independently published, 2023)
Alison McGhee (MA 1993), The Opposite of Fate [novel] (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
Alison McGhee (MA 1993), Dear Brother [children's fiction] (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, 2023)
Alison McGhee (MA 1993), Telephone of the Tree [children's fiction] (Rocky Pond Books, 2024)
Ben Meyerson (MFA 2019), Near Enough [poetry] (Seven Kitchens, 2023)
Ben Meyerson (MFA 2019), Seguiriyas [poetry] (Black Ocean, 2023)
Zi Ning Mok (MFA candidate), The Orchid Folios [poetry] (Ethos Books, 2020)
Jim Moore (BA 1966), Prognosis [poetry] (Graywolf Press, 2021)
Joe Moses (PhD 1993), co-author, Writing to Learn in Teams: A Collaborative Writing Playbook for Students Across the Curriculum (Parlor Press, 2023)
Alex Mueller (PhD 2007), Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing before Digital Technology (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Patrick Nathan (BA 2009), Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist (Counterpoint Press, 2021)
Patrick Nathan (BA 2009), The Future Was Color [novel] (Counterpoint, 2024)
Marilyn Nelson (PhD 1979), Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life [poetry] (Christy Ottaviano Books, 2022)
Margaret Noodin (PhD 2001), What the Chickadee Knows: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English [poetry] (Wayne State University Press, 2020)
Carrie Oeding (BA 1996), If I Could Give You a Line [poetry] (University of Akron Press Akron Poetry Prize, 2023)
Trenton B. Olsen (PhD 2014), editor, The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson (Routlege, 2021)
Scott F. Parker (MFA 2014), Being on the Oregon Coast (Little Bound Books, 2020)
Anca E. Parvulescu (PhD 2006), co-author, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Kathleen Patrick (MFA), Anxiety in the Wilderness: Short Stories (Independently published, 2023)
Kathleen Patrick (MFA), Mercy [young adult fiction] (Independently published, 2023)
Kathleen Patrick (MFA), Airmail: A Story of War in Poems [poetry] (Independently published, 2022)
Becky Peterson (PhD 2010), Textiles on Film (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024)
Alan Powers (PhD 1976), Conversations with Birds: The Metaphysics of Bird and Human Communication (Bear & Company, 2022)
Sherry Quan Lee (MFA 1996), Septuagenarian [poetry] (Modern History Press, 2021)
Tom Rademacher (BA 2004), Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Nen G. Ramirez (MFA 2023), All Women Are Born Wailing [poetry], Nomadic Press Acentos Book Prize, 2023
William Reichard (PhD 1997), Our Delicate Barricades Downed: Poems (Broadstone Books, 2021)
Lynette Reini-Grandell (PhD 1992), Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story [memoir] (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023)
Karen Rigby (MFA 2004), Fabulosa [poetry] (Jackleg, 2024)
Kevin Riordan (PhD 2011), Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jerry Ruff (MA 1982), Masato's Garden [picture book] (Clavis Publishing, 2022)
Jerry Ruff (MA 1982), Noah and His Wagon [picture book] (Clavis Publishing, 2022)
Jerry Ruff (MA 1982), Owen’s Day with Daddy [picture book] (Clavis Publishing, 2022)
Ethan Rutherford (MFA 2009), Farthest South: Stories (A Strange Object, 2021)
Kathryn Savage (MFA 2020), Groundglass: An Essay (Coffee House Press, 2022)
Said Shaiye (MFA student), Are You Borg Now? [memoir/poetry] (Really Serious Literature, 2021)
Amy Shearn (MFA 2005), Unseen City [novel] (Red Hen Press, 2020)
Amy Shearn (MFA 2005), Dear Edna Sloane [novel] (Red Hen Press, 2024)
Linda Shenk (PhD 2002), co-editor and contributor, Early Modern Improvisations: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins (Routledge, 2024)
Mihret Sibhat (MFA 2019), The History of a Difficult Child [novel] (Viking Books, 2023)
Claire Stanford (MFA 2012), Happy for You [novel] (Viking Books, 2022)
Emily Strasser (MFA 2016), Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History (University Press of Kentucky, 2023)
Minnesota Book Award Winner
Joyce Sutphen (BA 1982, MA 1993, PhD 1996), That Other Life [poetry] (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023)
Amalia Tenuta (MFA student), The Primitive Accumulation of Realness [poetry] (Dead Mall Press, 2023)
Asha Thanki (MFA 2022), A Thousand Times Before [novel] (Viking, 2024)
Michael Tisserand (BA 1990), editor, My Father When Young (The Sager Group LLC, 2021)
Michael Walsh (MFA 2006), editor, Queer Nature [poetry] (Autumn House Press, 2022)
Michael Walsh (MFA 2006), Creep Love [poetry] (Autumn House Press, 2021)
Will Weaver (BA 1972), Power and Light [novel] (Calumet Editions, 2023)
Chaun Webster (MFA student), Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world [poetry] (Wave Books, 2023)
Minnesota Book Award Winner
Karen Woods Weierman (PhD 1999), The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery (Boston University of Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Elisabeth Workman (MFA 2014), The Figures: A Litter [poetry] (Dancing Girl Press, 2021)
Andria Williams (MFA 2005), The Waiting World [novel] (MilSpeak Books, 2023)
Shana Youngdahl (MFA 2006), A Cage to Welcome [poetry] (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2023)