Books by Workshop Writers
Alumni Updates
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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.


Black Sunday
Tola Rotimi Abraham
February 4, 2020 | Fiction

The Clearing
Allison Adair
June 9, 2020 | Poetry

The Heap
Sean Adams
January 7, 2020 | Fiction

Exodus
‘Gbenga Adeoba
March 3, 2020 | Poetry

Antigone Without Antigone and Other Plays
Toby Altman
May 5, 2020 | Plays

Demon Barber
Ruth Bardon
June 3, 2020 Poetry

The Galleons
Rick Barot
February 11, 2020 | Poetry

After the Hunger
MaryEllen Beveridge
February 20, 2020 | Fiction

Asylum
Jill Bialosky
August 4, 2020 | Poetry

Quilt Life: Poems
Cindy Bosley
August 4, 2020 | Poetry

A Month’s Worth of Instructional Poems
Rebecca Bridge
January 11, 2020 | Poetry

The Ghost Variations
Kevin Brockmeier
October 6, 2020 | Fiction

Ordinary Hazards
Anna Bruno
August 18, 2020 | Fiction

Likes
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
September 1, 2020 | Fiction

How a Woman Becomes a Lake
Marjorie Celona
March 3, 2020 | Fiction

These Doors
Marian Matthews Clark
December 9, 2020 | Fiction

Skim Deep
Max Allan Collins
December 8, 2020 | Fiction

The Ongoing Mystery of the Disappearing Self
Martin Corless-Smith
September 28, 2020 | Poetry

Guillotine
Eduardo C. Corral
August 4, 2020 | Poetry

Natch
Sophia Dahlin
September 1, 2020 | Poetry

In My Unknowing
Chard deNiord
February 1, 2020 | Poetry

Sisyphusina
Shira Dentz
March 3, 2020 | Poetry, Art

Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
Anaïs Duplan
September 8, 2020 | Criticism

American Gospel
Lin Enger
October 1, 2020 | Fiction

The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
November 10, 2020 | Fiction

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini
Katherine Factor
May 1, 2020 | Fiction

How to Pack for the End of the World
Michelle Falkoff
November 10, 2020 | Fiction

Atomic Love
Jennie Fields
August 18, 2020 | Fiction

Frozen Fire
Pam Fox
February 27, 2020 | Fiction

Sea Wife
Amity Gaige
April 28, 2020 | Fiction

Old Lovegood Girls
Gail Godwin
May 5, 2020 | Fiction

The Needle
Regan Good
January 1, 2020 | Poetry

Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
January 14, 2020 | Fiction

Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
September 15, 2020 | Fiction

They Aren’t Your Ducks
Sally McGreevey Hannay
March 23, 2020 | Poetry

The Audible and the Evident
Julie Hanson
February 20, 2020 | Poetry

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Joy Harjo, editor
August 25, 2020 | Poetry

White Poison
Michael Harris
March 31, 2020 | Fiction

Between Lakes
Jeffrey Harrison
September 1, 2020 | Poetry

Lost in Waste
Catherine Haustein
February 2, 2020 | Fiction

Cleaner, Greener Labs for Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis 2020
Catherine Haustein
January 4, 2020 | Nonfiction

Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood/
Robin Hemley
March 1, 2020 | Essay, Memoir

Every Day We Get More Illegal
Juan Felipe Herrera
September 2, 2020 | Poetry

28 Summers
Elin Hilderbrand
June 16, 2020 | Fiction

Agitprop for Bedtime
Charles Holdefer
October 15, 2020 | Fiction

Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
February 25, 2020 | Essay, Memoir

sundaey
Kirsten Ihns
February 25, 2020 | Poetry

You Again
Debra Jo Immergut
July 7, 2020 | Fiction

I've Been Wrong Before
Evan James
March 3, 2020 | Essay

Czech Techno
Mark Anthony Jarman
November 1, 2020 | Fiction

Dailiness: Essays on Poetry
Mark Jarman
February 18, 2020 | Craft

The Resisters
Gish Jen
February 4, 2020 | Fiction

Romance or The End: Poems
Elaine Kahn
February 4, 2020 | Poetry

(aviary)
Genevieve Kaplan
March 1, 2020 | Poetry

Blood Feather
Karla Kelsey
October 1, 2020 | Poetry

Universe of Two
Stephen Kiernan
May 5, 2020 | Fiction

Maria Tallchief: Woman of Two Worlds
Cinnamon Spear Kills First
November 1, 2020 | Fiction

Go Dance!
Cinnamon Spear Kills First
November 1, 2020 | Fiction

NEUTRAL EVIL )))
Lee Klein
March 1, 2020 | Fiction

The Nightfields
Joanna Klink
July 7, 2020 | Poetry

Glaring
Benjamin Krusling
December 3, 2020 | Poetry

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer
Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon
April 21, 2020 | Craft

Must I Go
Yiyun Li
July 28, 2020 | Fiction

Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
Matthew Lippman
March 2, 2020 | Poetry

Later : My Life at the Edge of the World
Paul Lisicky
March 17, 2020 | Memoir

The Boy in the Field
Margot Livesey
August 11, 2020 | Fiction

After Troy
Taban Lo Liyong
November 27, 2020 | Poetry

Fractal Shores
Diane Louie
October 15, 2020 | Poetry

Flourish
Dora Malech
February 18, 2020 | Poetry

Things to Do in Hell
Chris Martin
October 6, 2020 | Poetry

Gold Cure
Ted Mathys
September 15, 2020 | Poetry

Everyone Knows How Much I Love You
Kyle McCarthy
January 6, 2020 | Fiction

Sometimes I Never Suffered
Shane McCrae
June 2, 2020 | Poetry

The Fear of Everything
John McNally
September 1, 2020 | Fiction

Toxicon and Arachne
Joyelle McSweeney
April 7, 2020 | Poetry

Lull
Nora Claire Miller
February 1, 2020 | Poetry

More Miracle than Bird
Alice Miller
June 2, 2020 | Fiction

The Brightest Place in the World
David Philip Mullins
April 20, 2020 | Fiction

afFect theory
Julianne Neely
June 15, 2020 | Poetry
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Methods Body [AUDIO LP]
John Niekrasz
August 28, 2020 | Music

Fraternity
Benjamin Nugent
July 7, 2020 | Fiction

My Red Heaven
Lance Olsen
January 21, 2020 | Fiction

Sacrament of Bodies
Romeo Oriogun
March 3, 2020 | Poetry

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing
Caryl Pagel
September 15, 2020 | Nonfiction, Essay

True North and Untrue You [eBook]
Sam Pereira
December 10, 2020 | Poetry

White Blood
Kiki Petrosino
May 5, 2020 | Poetry

Dead South
Charles Lamar Phillips
February 10, 2020 | Fiction

Atlas T
D.A. Powell
April 1, 2020 | Poetry

Gravity Well
Marc Rahe
October 20, 2020 | Poetry

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them
Adrienne Raphel
March 17, 2020 | Nonfiction

Underworld Lit
Srikanth Reddy
August 4, 2020 | Poetry

Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth
Doren Robbins
January 1, 2020 | Criticism

Jack
Marilynne Robinson
September 29, 2020 | Fiction

Father Guards the Sheep
Sari Rosenblatt
October 2, 2020 | Fiction

Jyze of the Heavenly Year
G.P. Sandefjord (pen name)
June 22, 2020 | Fiction

Scat Jyze
G.P. Sandefjord (pen name)
August 19, 2020 | Fiction

The Heartbeat as an Ancient Instrument
David Schloss
September 1, 2020 | Poetry

Arena
Laren Shapiro
October 15, 2020 | Poetry

Rodham
Curtis Sittenfeld
May 19, 2020 | Fiction

Perestroika in Paris
Jane Smiley
December 1, 2020 | Fiction

Demo
Charlie Smith
April 7, 2020 | Poetry

Little Black Train
Jordan Smith
March 4, 2020 | Poetry

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights
Stephanie Soileau
July 1, 2020 | Fiction

The Book of V.
Anna Solomon
May 5, 2020 | Fiction

And Then Something Happened
Debra Spark
August 11, 2020 | Essay

Instrument/Traveler’s Ode
Dao Strom
November 3, 2023 | Poetry, Music, Art

All That I Have Not Made
Robert Sward
June 1, 2020 | Poetry

Real Life
Brandon Taylor
February 18, 2020 | Fiction

The Ancestor
Danielle Trussoni
April 7, 2020 | Fiction

Man of Peace
Yumiko Tsumura
September 15, 2020 | Poetry

After Life as a Human
Laura Valeri
November 1, 2020 | Nonfiction, Memoir

L'Isola del Silenzio
Laura Valeri
July 4, 2020 | Fiction

Rare Earth
Kelsi Vanada
March 6, 2020 | Poetry

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
November 2, 2020 | Essay

Come To the X
Julia Wendell
April 15, 2020 | Poetry

Five Principles of Green Witchcraft
Asa West
September 15, 2020 | Handbooks and Guides

Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore
March 31, 2020 | Fiction

The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932
Thomas Wolf
May 1, 2020 | Nonfiction

Processed Cheese
Stephen Wright
January 21, 2020 | Fiction

Death Industrial Complex
Candice Wuehle
April 1, 2020 | Poetry

How Much of These Hills is Gold
C Pam Zhang
April 7, 2020 | Fiction

My Baby First Birthday
Jenny Zhang
May 12, 2020 | Poetry