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 Years of Blood
Adedayo Agarau
September 2, 2025 | Poetry

Trip
Amie Barrodale
September 2, 2025 | Fiction

The Words of Dr. L
Karen E. Bender
May 6, 2025 | Fiction

A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII
Tim Brady
July 29, 2025 | Nonfiction

Fine Young People
Anna Bruno
July 29, 2025 | Fiction

Hilty Defeats Entropy
Thomas Corcoran
April 17, 2025 | Fiction

Everyday Knowledge
James Cummins
April 2025 | Poetry

Glove Money
Sophia Dahlin
October 14, 2025 | Poetry

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

An Arm Fixed to a Wing
Olivia Clare Friedman
February 2025 | Poetry

All We Trust
Gregory Galloway
July 8, 2025 | Fiction

The Green Lives
Sara Gilmore
October 7, 2025 | Poetry

Life Without: The Wrongful Conviction of Sandy Shaw
Sandy Shaw and Dan Gleason
October 2, 2025 | Nonfiction

Rabbit Moon
Jennifer Haigh
April 1, 2025 | Fiction

Sleep for Hours
Janelle Affiong Hall
April 2, 2025 | Poetry

The Flight from Meaning
Stephen Haven
February 4, 2025 | Poetry

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

Soft Lighting
Jared Joseph
October 1, 2025 | Fiction

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

Likeness
Samsun Knight
July 29, 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

Dogs
C. Mallon
August 12, 2025 | Fiction

It All Felt Impossible
Tom McAllister
May 14, 2025 | Essay, Memoir

The Problem You Have
Robert Garner McBrearty
March 18, 2025 | Fiction

New and Collected Hell
Shane McCrae
February 11, 2025 | Poetry

Groceries
Nora Claire Miller
October 21, 2025 | Poetry

something happens (quelque chose se passe), by Stéphanie Chaillou
Translated by Laura Mullen
June 16, 2025 | Poetry

Rooms for Vanishing
Stuart Nadler
March 18, 2025 | Fiction

Bog Queen
Anna North
October 14, 2025 | Fiction

The Reluctant Sheriff
Chris Offutt
March 25, 2025 | Fiction

The Tiny Things are Heavier
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
June 24, 2025 | Fiction

The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter
Peter Orner
August 12, 2025 | Fiction

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Jen Percy
November 11, 2025 | Narrative Nonfiction

The Lost Queen
Aimee Phan
May 6, 2025 | Fiction

The Imagined Life
Andrew Porter
April 15, 2025 | Fiction

To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage
September 2, 2025 | Fiction

Dizzying Words
Claudia M. Reder
February 2025 | Poetry

Still on Earth
David Romtvedt
March 3, 2025 | Poetry

Above the Fold
Scott Ruescher
March 7, 2025 | Poetry

Goddess Complex
Sanjena Sathian
March 11, 2025 | Fiction

Truth Juice
Will Schmitz
February 28, 2025 | Fiction

Show Don't Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
February 25, 2025 | Fiction

The Search Committee
Jose Skinner
March 31, 2025 | Fiction

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

Spilt
Jordan Stempleman
September 23, 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
September 15, 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

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Vauhini Vara
April 8, 2025 | Essay

Goose Island
Margaret Walker (posthumously)
2025 | Fiction

The Fire Passage
Lisa Wells
March 15, 2025 | Poetry

Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World
Asa West
March 3, 2025 | Memoir : Essay

Burnt Mountain
Emily Wilson
October 21, 2025 | Poetry

Baseball in the Roaring Twenties : The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
Thomas Wolf
September 1, 2025 | Nonfiction

Friendship : Caveman Wakes Up [Musical album]
Dan Wriggins
May 16, 2025 | Music

You’re Called by the Same Sound
Alicia Wright
August 2025 | Poetry