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.


Oromay, by Baalu Girma
Translated by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu
February 4, 2025 | Fiction, translation

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

Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus
Jack Saebyok Jung
March 1, 2025 | Poetry

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

The Book of Candles: Eight Poems for Hanukkah
Laurel Snyder
September 16, 2025 |Poetry

Yellow Songs/Tender Revolutions
Dao Strom
2025 | Poetry, Essay, Music

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