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.
Lost Letters and Other Animals
Carrie Bennett
January 8, 2021 | Poetry
Permeable Boundaries
MaryEllen Beveridge
June 11, 2021 | Fiction
Talk To Me
T. C. Boyle
September 14, 2021 | Fiction
Three Ordinary Girls
Tim Brady
February 23, 2021 | Nonfiction
The Lowering Days
Gregory Brown
March 2, 2021 | Fiction
The Vanishing Point
Elizabeth Brundage
May 18, 2021 | Fiction
Wiki of Infinite Sorrows
Matthew Burnside
July 1, 2021 | Fiction
Godspeed
Nickolas Butler
July 27, 2021 | Fiction
Prelude
Scott Butterfield
May 17, 2021 | Fiction
Nectarine
Chad Campbell
April 1, 2021 | Poetry
Black Forest Dreams: A Journey Through Germany
Joseph Kuhn Carey
February 16, 2021 | Poetry
Two Murals
Jesús Castillo
October 1, 2021 | Poetry
One More Day
Diane Chiddister
October 12, 2021 | Fiction
Listen My Friend, This Is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night
Cody-Rose Clevidence
June 1, 2021 | Poetry
AUX ARC TRYPT ICH: Poppycock and Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees
Cody-Rose Clevidence
November 9, 2021 | Poetry
Everything
Andrea Cohen
February 15, 2021 | Poetry
The One Certain Thing
Peter Cooley
February 2, 2021 | Poetry
The Melancholy of Anatomy
Martin Corless-Smith
September 28, 2021 | Poetry
Recalcitrant Actors
James Cummins
May 30, 2021 | Poetry
Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson
August 3, 2021 | Fiction
Long Coordinates
Christina de Villier
May 1, 2021 | Poetry
Her Here
Amanda Dennis
March 9, 2021 | Fiction
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Rita Dove
August 17, 2021 | Poetry
I Need Music
Anaïs Duplan
October 1, 2021 | Poetry
True North
Gary Eller
November 18, 2021 | Fiction
The God is Not Willing
Steven Erikson
July 1, 2021 | Fiction
Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Spy For Cleopatra
Katherine Factor
May 1, 2021 | Fiction
The Supposed Huntsman
Katie Fowley
March 1, 2021 | Poetry
Half-Life
Jane Ann Fuller
June 15, 2021 | Poetry
Just Thieves
Gregory Galloway
October 19, 2021 | Fiction
China Blue
Catherine Gammon
April 6, 2021 | Fiction
The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet
Maureen Gibbon
September 1, 2021 | Fiction
The House Uptown
Melissa Ginsburg
March 16, 2021 | Fiction
Raft of Stars
Andrew J. Graff
March 23, 2021 | Fiction
The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus
January 12, 2021 | Fiction
Mommy and Other Poems
Joan Carole Hand
October 12, 2021 | Poetry
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
September 7, 2021 | Memoir
I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart
Cris Harris
June 1, 2021 | Fiction
The Guide
Peter Heller
August 24, 2021 | Fiction
The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Robin Hemley and Xu Xi
October 21, 2021 | Craft
Golden Girl
Elin Hilderbrand
June 1, 2021 | Fiction
American Vaudeville
Geoffrey Hilsabeck
July 9, 2021 | Nonfiction, Essay
Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
Katie Ives
September 14, 2021 | Nonfiction
Cosmogony
Lucy Ives
March 9, 2021 | Fiction
How to be Better by Being Worse
Justin Jannise
April 13, 2021 | Poetry
Beneath the Keep
Erika Johansen
February 2, 2021 | Fiction
The Marvelous Mirza Girls
Sheba Karim
May 18, 2021 | Fiction
With Me You Are Inviting Trouble
Daniel Khalastchi
April 15, 2021 | Poetry
American Parables
Daniel Khalastchi
October 1, 2021 | Poetry
Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
David Hoon Kim
August 3, 2021 | Fiction
The Mating Calls of the Dead
Steve Kistulentz
April 15, 2021 | Poetry
Changed for Good: The Discovery of Purpose
Apostolos Kizilos
January 31, 2021 | Memoir
The Professor and the Spies
O. T. Harris with Carl Kremer
August 27, 2021 | Fiction
Something Unbelievable
Maria Kuznetzova
April 13, 2021 | Fiction
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li
September 14, 2021 | Criticism
The Curious Thing
Sandra Lim
September 14, 2021 | Poetry
Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History
William Logan
May 11, 2021 | Criticism, Poetry
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
William Logan
January 5, 2021 | Criticism, Poetry
Chateau Laux
David Loux
April 6, 2021 | Fiction
Pretty Tripwire
Alessandra Lynch
January 19, 2021 | Poetry
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
Leonard S. Marcus, editor
September 16, 2021 | Essay
Reprieve
James Han Mattson
October 5, 2021 | Fiction
Villa Negativa
Sharon McCartney
March 30, 2021 | Poetry, Memoir
The Souvenir Museum
Elizabeth McCracken
April 13, 2021 | Fiction
The Outrageous Guide to Being Fully Alive: Defeat Your Inner Trolls and Reclaim Your Sense of Humor
Ceci Miller (co-author)
April 27, 2021 | Handbooks and Guides
What Fire
Alice Miller
April 1, 2021 | Poetry
Prognosis
Jim Moore
November 2, 2021 | Poetry
How Other People Make Love
Thisbe Nissen
April 1, 2021 | Fiction
Walking on Cowrie Shells
Nana Nkweti
June 1, 2021 | Fiction
Outlawed
Anna North
January 5, 2021 | Fiction
The Killing Hills
Chris Offutt
June 15, 2021 | Fiction
Nomad
Romeo Oriogun
December 1, 2021 | Poetry
Sicilian Dreams
Vincent Panella
March 2, 2021 | Fiction
In the Field
Rachel Pastan
August 10, 2021 | Fiction
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
November 23, 2021 | Essay
Estranged
Charles Lamar Phillips
February 19, 2021 | Fiction
Washed in the Blood
Roger Pinckney
May 18, 2021 | Fiction
Heart’s Compass Tarot
Tania Pryputniewicz
February 14, 2021 | Handbooks and Guides
Into The The
Robin Reagler
March 21, 2021 | Poetry
The Comfort of Monsters
Willa C. Richards
July 13, 2021 | Fiction
Sympathetic Manifesto: Selected Poems 1975-2015
Doren Robbins
October 5, 2021 | Poetry
No Way: An American Tao Te Ching
David Romtvedt
January 27, 2021 | Poetry
Have Mercy
G.P. Sandefjord (pen name)
November 1, 2021 | Fiction
The Tarantulas Best Season
James N. Sarvadi
April 3, 2021 | Fiction
Gold Diggers
Sanjena Sathian
April 6, 2021 | Fiction
Well Waiting Room
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer
October 5, 2021 | Poetry
Goodbye, Apostrophe
Peter Schmitt
May 3, 2021 | Poetry
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
May 4, 2021 | Fiction
Grandmas Are Greater Than Great
James Solheim
February 9, 2021 | Fiction
The Days of Afrekete
Asali Solomon
October 19, 2021 | Fiction
This Weightless World
Adam Soto
November 9, 2021 | Fiction
Filthy Animals
Brandon Taylor
June 22, 2021 | Fiction
After Russia: Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
Mary Jane White
September 26, 2021 | Poetry, Translation
All In One
Yumiko Tsumura
October 15, 2021 | Poetry
Philomath
Devon Walker-Figueroa
September 14, 2021 | Poetry
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton
April 20, 2021 | Fiction
The Sisters Sweet
Elizabeth Weiss
November 30, 2021 | Fiction
NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide: Create, Launch, and Grow a Podcast on Any Budget
Glen Weldon
June 29, 2021 | Handbooks and Guides
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
Lisa Wells
July 20, 2021 | Essay
Revival Season
Monica West
June 15, 2021 | Fiction
Possum Fool
Fred A. Wilcox
December 16, 2021 | Fiction
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
Jane Wong
October 12, 2021 | Poetry
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century
Wong May
February 14, 2021 | Poetry, Translation
Fidelitoria: Fixed or Fluxed
Candice Wuehle
May 4, 2021 | Poetry