Alumni Publications
Through the New Body, the chapbook with which Alumna Isabella DeSendi '17 won the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship has been published by the Poetry Society of America and is available for pre-order now.
Alumnus Jeff Elzinga '78 recently released his debut novel, The Distance Between Stars, through Water's Edge Press. The book is available for purchase here.
Alumnus Franz Nicolay '18 recently announced that his second book and first novel, Someone Should Pay for Your Pain, will be released in April 2021 by Gibson House Press.
This October, alumni Chris Molnar ’18 and Etan Nechin ’19 will publish Unpublishable, a collection from their notorious underground reading series of the same name at the POWERHOUSE ARENA.
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, the new novel by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08, was released by Platypus Press on September 1.
Just Us: An American Conversation, the new Literary Collection by Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93, was released on September 8 by Graywolf Press.
Recent alumna Lisa Foad ’20 has been named a finalist for the 2020 Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for her short story “Hunting.”
The last two years have been busy for Film alumnus and novelist Garth Stein ’90. Last summer, the movie The Art of Racing in the Rain based on Stein’s best-selling 2008 novel of the same name, was released by 20th Century Fox/Disney.
Four Way Books will publish The Life Assignment by alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 this September.
This Is Why They Hate Us by recent alumnus Aaron H. Aceves ‘20 was acquired by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for spring 2022 publication. This is Aceves’s debut novel.
Deep Delta Justice, debut book by alumnus Matthew van Meter ’16, is a nonfiction retelling of the critical court case in mid-20th century Louisiana that changed American law: Duncan v. Louisiana.
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by alumna Kate Greene ’20 is a memoir about Greene’s time living in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), a long-duration Mars exploration analog study run by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA.