Creative Writing Alumni
Our graduates have gone on to PhD programs in Creative Writing and in Literature; to Fulbright scholarships, Stegner and Michener fellowships; to teach at community colleges and secondary schools; to careers in editing, screenwriting, and journalism; and they're certainly publishing their work.
Gabrielle Myers (2008): Finishing Line Press will publish a collection of poems by Gabrielle, Too Many Seeds, in late 2021.
Andrea Ross (1999): Andrea's memoir Unnatural Selection was released in March 2021. More information, and a link to order the book, is available from CavanKerry Press.
Ben Hinshaw (2014): Viking will publish Ben's novel-in-stories Exactly What You Mean in the UK in Spring 2022.
Kathryn Dillard (2018) Street Smarts, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Jamil Kochai (2019) 99 Nights in Logar, Viking Books
Augustus Rose (2017) The Readymade Thief, Viking Books
Becky Mandelbaum (2017) Bad Kansas: Stories, University of Georgia - Winner of the Flannery O'Conner Award for Short Fiction
Eric Sneathen (2016) Snail Poems, Krupskaya Press
Carmen Lau (2016) The Girl Wakes, The Current Press
Shawna Yang Ryan (2016) Green Island: A Novel, Random House Inc; (2007) Water Ghosts, Penguin Press
Gabrielle Myers (2015) Hive-Mind, Lisa Hagan Books
Kate Asche (2015) Our Day in the Labyrinth, Finishing Line Press
Megan Kaminski (2015) Deep City, Noemi Press; (2012) Desiring Map, Coconut Books
Naomi Williams (2015) Landfalls, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Stephan Eirik Clark (2014) Sweetness #9, Little, Brown; (2012), Vladimir's Mustache and Other Stories, Russian Life Books
Halina Duraj (2014), The Family Cannon, Augury Books
Jodi Angel (2013), You Only Get Letters From Jail, Tin House Books; (2006),The History of Vegas Chronicle Books
Alejandro Escudé (2013), My Earthbound Eye, Sacramento Poetry Center Press
Thomas Heise (2013), Moth: or how I came to be with you again, Sarabande Books; (2006) Horror Vacui, Sarabande Books
Mark Pearson (2013), Famous Last Lines, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
Erica Lorraine Scheidt (2013), Uses for Boys, St. Martin's Griffin
Austin Smith (2013), Almanac: Poems, Princeton University Press
Melvin Stern (2012), Zara,Ink Brush Press
Uyen Hua (2012), a/s/l new poetry, ingirumimusnocte
Melanie Thorne (2012), Hand Me Down, Dutton
Melinda Moustakis (2011), Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, University of Georgia Press - Winner of the Flannery O'Conner Award for Short Fiction
Murray Dunlap (2011), Bastard Blue, Press53
Margaret Young (2011), Almond Town, Bright Hill Press; (2002), Willow from the Willow, Cleveland State Poetry Center
Angie Chau (2010), Quiet As They Come, IG Publishing
Martin Woodside (2009), Stationary Landscapes, Pudding House Press
Kirsten Sundberg Lundstrom (2008), Swimming with Strangers, Chronicle Books; (2005), This Life She's Chosen, Chronicle Books
Matt Silady (2007), The Homeless Channel, AiT/PlanetLar
Spring Warren (2007),Turpentine, Grove Press
Lindsey Crittenden (2007), The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray, Harmony
Shawna Ryan (2007), Locke 1928 , Thomas Farber; republished as Water Ghosts, (2009), Penguin
Christien Gholson (2006), On the Side of the Crow , Hanging Loose Press
Maria Melendez (2006), How Long She'll Last in this World , University of Arizona Press
The Chronicles of Narnia (screenplay) and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (teleplay): Chris Markus and Steve McFeely