21 Book Salute: Fiction
From Avasthi to Taniguchi, here are MFA graduates with published novels or story collections, one book from each (some have more than one publication). Let us know if we've missed any (at sutt0063@umn.edu); we can always add more to grow on! (Speaking of . . . a short-fiction collection from Maureen Aitken (1997) won the Nilsen Prize and will be published by Southeast Missouri Press next fall, and Shana Youngdahl (2006) just signed with Dial for the 2020 publication of a young adult novel, As Many Nows as I Can Get.)
1.
Swati Avasthi (2010)
Chasing Shadows [young adult]
Ember
![Cover of UNCLE JANICE](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/burgess.jpg?itok=qzHyLQMj)
2.
Matt Burgess (2009)
Uncle Janice
Doubleday
3.
Amanda Coplin (2006)
The Orchardist
Harper
![Cover of MAKE YOUR HOME AMONG STRANGERS](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/crucet.jpg?itok=cXyrX_1e)
4.
Jennine Capó Crucet (2006)
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Picador
5.
Kevin Fenton (2005)
Merit Badges
New Issues
![Cover of DAYS OF AWE](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/fox.jpg?itok=JwoB0oRH)
6.
Lauren Fox (1998)
Days of Awe
Knopf
7.
Sally Franson (2013)
A Lady's Guide to Selling Out
Dial Press
![Cover of GIRL IN PIECES](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/glasgow.jpg?itok=lLaPB6xK)
8.
Kathleen Glasgow (2002)
Girl in Pieces [young adult]
Delacorte Press
9.
Norah Labiner (1996)
Let the Dark Flower Blossom
Coffee House Press
![Cover of SHADOW GIRL](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/liu.jpg?itok=fnnm7JJp)
10.
Liana Liu (2011)
Shadow Girl [young adult]
HarperTeen
11.
Brian Malloy (2006)
Brendan Wolf
St. Martin's Griffin
![Cover of FAILING THE TRAPEZE](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/meyers.jpg?itok=w2lcZnqR)
12.
Susan V. Meyers (2004)
Failing the Trapeze
Southeast Missouri State University Press
13.
Scott Muskin (1998)
The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama's Boy and Scholar
Hooded Friar Press
![Cover of CHILDREN OF GOD GO BOWLING](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/olson.jpg?itok=NJL_KkRk)
14.
Shannon Olson (1998)
Children of God Go Bowling
Viking
15.
Marsha Qualey (2008)
Venom and the River: A Novel of Pepin
Untreed Reads
![Cover of FREEING VERA](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/raffa.jpg?itok=Xe4FOCF3)
16.
Elissa Raffa (1997)
Freeing Vera
Permanent Press
17.
Susan Rivecca (2003)
Death Is Not an Option: Stories
W. W. Norton & Company
![Cover of The Peripatetic Coffin](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rutherford.jpg?itok=hwCLUkaG)
18.
Ethan Rutherford (2009)
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
Ecco
19.
Amy Shearn (2005)
The Mermaid of Brooklyn
Touchstone
![Cover of THIS IS THE NIGHT](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/sirott.jpg?itok=-uZEpgZL)
20.
Jonah C. Sirott (2011)
This Is the Night [young adult]
Little A
21.
Yuko Taniguchi (2001)
The Ocean in the Closet
Coffee House Press