Books by Workshop Writers
Alumni Updates
Each year, Writers' Workshop alumni and faculty publish nearly 100 books across genres. The Glenn Schaeffer Library and Archives houses a full collection of alumni and faculty books. The most recent of these publications are represented here, organized by publication year and then alphabetically by author. We are always updating this list.


The Arrival of Rain
Adedayo Agarau
February 1, 2024 | Poetry

Witness
Ruth Bardon
September 24, 2024 | Poetry

Nitrous Or My Velvet Knife
Ellen Boyette
Fall 2024 | Poetry

Bad Animals
Sarah Braunstein
March 19, 2024 | Fiction

Super Collider
Sean Brendan-Brown
October 1, 2024 | Poetry

The Celdan Heresies
Reaching Man Series, Book 1
Megan Carnes
March 6, 2024 | Fiction

The Grimace of Eden, Now
Cody-Rose Clevidence
November 19, 2024 | Poetry

Broughtupsy
Christina Cooke
January 23, 2024 | Fiction

Mother Water Ash
Nicole Cooley
July 25, 2024 | Poetry

Accounting for the Dark
Peter Cooley
February 20, 2024 | Poetry

Golden Satellite Debris
Martin Corless-Smith
September 6, 2024 | Poetry

Exposure
Ava Dellaira
September 10, 2024 | Fiction

Bobby and Carolyn: A Memoir of My Two Mothers
John Philip Drury
August 9, 2024 | Narrative Nonfiction

The Teller's Cage
John Philip Drury
January 23, 2024 | Poetry

My Father Called Us Monkeys : Growing Up Mexican American in the Heartland
Mario Duarte
April 18, 2024 | Fiction

Ghost Mother
Kelly Dwyer
August 6, 2024 | Fiction

The Sky Was Ours
Joe Fassler
May 1, 2024 | Fiction

Hereafter
Alan Felsenthal
June 25, 2024 | Poetry

Carry Water From the Moon
Doug Flaherty
June 30, 2024 | Autobiography

Malas
Marcela Fuentes
June 4, 2024 | Fiction

The Gunman & the Carnival
Catherine Gammon
February 6, 2024 | Fiction

The Body Farm: Stories
Abby Geni
May 7, 2024 | Fiction

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xóchitl González
March 5, 2024 | Fiction

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
September 3, 2024 | Fiction

The Other Altar
Nicholas Gulig
November 2024 | Poetry

The Dissonance
Shaun Hamill
July 23, 2024 | Fiction

Starmen
Francis Hamit
February 14, 2024 | Fiction

Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead
Erina Harris
October 1, 2024 | Poetry

Burn
Peter Heller
August 13, 2024 | Fiction

The Great Divide
Cristina Henríquez
March 5, 2024 | Fiction

Party Animals
Ethan Heusser
December 1, 2024 | Poetry

Swan Song
Elin Hilderbrand
June 11, 2024 | Fiction

Dominion + Selected Poems
Dennis Hinrichsen
October 1, 2024 | Poetry

Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? Letters of Love and Lust from the White House
Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler
February 6, 2024 | Nonfiction

Chinese Mythology: Legendary Tales of Heaven, Earth, Humanity, and Beyond
Aaron Hwang
December 17, 2024 | Nonfiction | Mythology

Of
Kai Ihns
October 8, 2024 | Poetry

An Image of My Name Enters America
Lucy Ives
October 15, 2024 | Essays

Splinters
Leslie Jamison
February 20, 2024 | Memoir

Burn Man: Selected Stories
Mark Anthony Jarman
January 16, 2024 | Fiction

Words Made Flesh: The Craft of Fiction
David Jauss
October 3, 2024 | Essays

We Burn Daylight: A Novel
Bret Anthony Johnston
July 30, 2024 | Fiction

Rose Mask
Jared Joseph
April 23, 2024 | Literary Nonfiction

Homefront
Victoria Kelly
January 30, 2024 | Fiction

Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy
Karla Kelsey
November 2024 | Speculative biography, fiction, experimental criticism

French Girl
Jesse Lee Kercheval
September 1, 2024 | Memoir

The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
Daniel Khalastchi
March 1, 2024 | Poetry

Like It Matters: An Unpublishable Novel
Lee Klein
June 16, 2024 | Fiction

pseudographica
Philip Kobylarz
June 20, 2024 | Experimental

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
September 24, 2024 | Fiction

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
September 27, 2024 | Poetry

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Nam Le
March 5, 2024 | Poetry

The Road from Belhaven
Margot Livesey
February 6, 2024 | Fiction

Same As It Ever Was
Claire Lombardo
June 18, 2024 | Fiction

Wish Ave
Alessandra Lynch
October 1, 2024 | Poetry

Liars
Sarah Manguso
July 23, 2024 | Fiction

Death Styles
Joyelle McSweeney
April 2, 2024 | Poetry

How to Disappear and Why
Kyle Minor
May 28, 2024 | Essays

Oye
Melissa Mogollon
May 14, 2024 | Fiction

Wet Media
Alyssa Moore
April 20, 2024 | Poetry

The Nancy Poems
John Morgan
November 21, 2024 | Poetry

Walden Pond
Patty Nash
August 15, 2024 | Poetry

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa
September 1, 2024 | Poetry

The Wonderful Wishes of B.
Katherin Nolte
June 4, 2024 | Fiction

The Blue Maiden
Anna Noyes
May 14, 2024 | Fiction

We Were Girls Once
Aiwanose Odafen
April 25, 2024 | Fiction

Ward Toward
Cindy Juyoung Ok
March 1, 2024 | Poetry

Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver
February 13, 2024 | Fiction

Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Space Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Richard Panek
October 22, 2024 | Nonfiction

Oily Doily
Alyssa Perry
2024 | Poetry

Do the Work
Megan Pillow and Roxane Gay
June 1, 2024 | Nonfiction

The Rich People Have Gone Away
Regina Porter
August 6, 2024 | Fiction

The Fertile Earth
Ruthvika Rao
August 13, 2024 | Fiction

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m.s. RedCherries
July 16, 2024 | Poetry

Quarterlife
Devika Rege
September 10, 2024 | Fiction

Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
January 30, 2024 | Fiction

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
Ruben Reyes Jr.
August 6, 2024 | Fiction

The Degenerates
Raeden Richardson
September 3, 2024 | Fiction

Surveille
Caitlin Roach
November 12, 2024 | Poetry

Army of Giants
Matthew Rohrer
October 1, 2024 | Poetry

Saturday
Margaret Ross
October 15, 2024 | Poetry

Hombrecito
Santiago Jose Sanchez
June 25, 2024 | Fiction

Momently
Zach Savich
March 5, 2024 | Poetry

Big Time
Will Schmitz
March 13, 2024 | Fiction

Bots, Come! 2
Will Schmitz
March 31, 2024 | Fiction

Planets Above & Below: The Tunnels At the End of The Light
Will Schmitz
September 26, 2024 | Fiction

The Violet Catastrophe: Volume II - The Vile Lunt Kat
Will Schmitz
and original art poetry postcards
April 19, 2024 | Fiction

The History of Sound
Ben Shattuck
July 9, 2024 | Fiction

The Selected Shepherd : Poems
Reginald Shepherd
April 1, 2024 | Poetry

A Christian Existentialist and a Psychoanalytic Atheist Walk into a Trump Rally [Audiobook]
David Shields
October 20, 2024 | Essays

How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Zizek (Squared) Equals Bannon
David Shields
September 24, 2024 | Essays

The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Nina Siegal
February 6, 2024 | Nonfiction

The Boat That Brought Sadness into the World
Eva Skrande
June 28, 2024 | Poetry

Kingston 76
Adam Snyder
September 26, 2024 | Fiction

Johnny Cooper's Field
Don J. Snyder
December 2024 | Fiction

The Causative Factor
Megan Staffel
October 22, 2024 | Fiction

So Tough
Jared Stanley
March 15, 2024 | Poetry

Also, the Cat
Rachel Swirsky
January 10, 2024 | Fiction

Infinity Pool
Jonathan Thirkield
September 25, 2024 | Poetry

The Puzzle Box: A Novel
Danielle Trussoni
October 8, 2024 | Fiction

Digging Stars
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
July 16, 2024 | Fiction

Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
September 17, 2024 | Fiction

Unruly Tree
Leslie Ullman
August 15, 2024 | Poetry

Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova
translated by Kelsi Vanada
August 2, 2024 | Poetry

United Left by Álvaro Lasso
translated by Kelsi Vanada
January 31, 2024 | Poetry

The Book of Jerusalem
Julia Vinograd
January 2024 | Poetry

The Opening Ritual
G. C. Waldrep
November 2024 | Poetry

Magically Black and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
September 10, 2024 | Essays

PlayHouse: Poems
Jorrell Watkins
April 15, 2024 | Poetry

The Witch’s Kin
Asa West
May 1, 2024 | Essays

What It Took To Raise My Son With Autism, To Be His Own Person, Loose In The Universe
Mary Jane White
April 9, 2024 | Memoir

Liontaming in America
Elizabeth Willis
September 24, 2024 | Poetry

Stem
Stella Wong
October 8, 2024 | Poetry

Prince of Grass
Dan Wriggins
July 19, 2024 | Poetry

Hour of the Heart
Benjamin Yalom and Irvin D. Yalom
November 26, 2024 | Psychotherapy

Green for Luck
Margaret Yapp
April 23, 2024 | Poetry