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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Magically Black and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
September 10, 2024 | Essays
PlayHouse: Poems
Jorrell Watkins
April 15, 2024 | Poetry
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