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.
At the End of the World There is a Pond
Steven Duong
January 14, 2025 | Poetry
Miss Ruki, by Fumiko Takano
Translated by Alexa Frank
June 24, 2025 | Graphic novel, translation
Life Without: The True Story of Sandy Shaw
Daniel Gleason
June 2025 | Nonfiction
If You Say So
Michelle Herman
March 2025 | Essay
Play, With Knives
Jeanette Horn
March 4, 2025 | Fiction
Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven
June 2025 | Fiction
Once When Green
Mark Irwin
April 2025 | Poetry
The Continental Divide
Bob Johnson
February 11, 2025 | Fiction
The Sweating Sickness
Rebecca Lehmann
February 2025 | Poetry
Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
Paul Lisicky
February 25, 2025 | Memoir, Essay, Biography
New and Collected Hell
Shane McCrae
February 11, 2025 | Poetry
Rooms for Vanishing
Stuart Nadler
March 18, 2025 | Fiction
The Reluctant Sheriff
Chris Offutt
March 25, 2025 | Fiction
Dizzying Words
Claudia M. Reder
February 2025 | Poetry
Goddess Complex
Sanjena Sathian
March 11, 2025 | Fiction
Show Don't Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
February 25, 2025 | Fiction
phases
Tramaine Suubi
January 28, 2025 | Poetry
Self Portrait as Vanishing Act
Leslie Ullman
March 2025 | Poetry
Fenestration
Othuke Umukoro
Fall 2025 | Poetry
Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, by Carlo Acevedo
Translated by Kelsi Vanada
May 2025 | Poetry
Optional Saint
Kelsi Vanada
Spring 2025 | Poetry, translation
Goose Island
Margaret Walker (posthumously)
2025 | Fiction
The Fire Passage
Lisa Wells
March 15, 2025 | Poetry
Ultranatural
Candice Wuehle
Fall 2025 | Fiction