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)
Isaac Butler (MFA 2013), The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mary Casanova (BA 1981), Waterfall [novel] (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Catherine Dang (BA 2017), Nice Girls [novel] (HarperCollins, 2021)
Lucas De Lima (MFA 2012), Tropical Sacrifice [poetry] (Birds LLC, 2022)
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 student), Dancing on the Tarmac [poetry] (Yemassee Journal, 2021)
Scott Dominic Carpenter (BA 1980), French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Travelers' Tales, 2020)
Eric Dregni (MFA 2007), For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jennine Capó Crucet (MFA 2006), My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education (Picador USA, 2019)
Kevin J. Curtis (BA 1990), Noah's Ark: 39 Million Light-Years from Earth [novel] (2019)
Sierra DeMulder (BA 2014), Ephemera [poetry] (Button Poetry, 2023)
Laressa Dickey (MFA 2005), Syncopations: Poems (Shearsman Books, 2019)
Matthew Duffus (MFA 2005), Dunbar’s Folly and Other Stories (Unsolicited Press, 2020)
Matthew Duffus (MFA 2005), Swapping Purples for Yellows [novel] (Unsolicited Press, 2019)
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, Wait for God to Notice [memoir] (Etruscan Press, 2021)
Lauren Fox (MFA 1998), Send for Me [novel] (Knopf, 2021)
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)
Steve Healey (PhD 2009), Safe Houses I Have Known: Poems (Coffee House Press, 2019)
Will Hermes (MA 1995), Lou Reed: King of New York (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
Patricia Hodgell (PhD 1987), as P. C. Hodgell, By Demons Possessed [novel] (Baen Books, 2019)
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)
Su Hwang (MFA 2017), Bodega: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2019)
Minnesota Book Award Winner
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)
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)
Ed Bok Lee (BA 1994), Mitochondrial Night: Poems (Coffee House Press, 2019)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sheila O'Connor (BA 1982), Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019)
Minnesota Book Award Winner
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)
Paul Otremba (BA 2002), Levee: Poems (Four Way Books, 2019)
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)
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)
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)
Mihret Sibhat (MFA 2019), The History of a Difficult Child [novel] (Viking Books, 2003)
Joyce Sutphen (BA 1982, MA 1993, PhD 1996), Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)
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)
Joyce Sutphen (BA, MA, 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)
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)
Chaun Webster (MFA student), Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world [poetry] (Wave Books, 2023)
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)
Shana Youngdahl (MFA 2006), As Many Nows as I Can Get [young adult novel] (Dial, 2019)