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.
The Birthday of the Dead
Rachel Abramowitz
March 31, 2022 | Poetry
The Return of Faraz Ali
Aamina Ahmad
April 5, 2022 | Fiction
Hyperphantasia
Sara Deniz Akant
September 27, 2022 | Poetry
The Deep Limitless Air, A Memoir in Pieces
Mary Allen
May 10, 2022 | Memoir
Tangled: Romantic Suspense with a Twist
Blair Babylon
March 8, 2022 | Fiction
The Deceptions
Jill Bialosky
September 6, 2022 | Fiction
Esoteric Cults of the American Soul
Jerimee Bloemeke
July 1, 2022 | Poetry
Defenestrate
Renée Branum
January 25, 2022 | Fiction
Liminal
Bill Burtis
October 3, 2022 | Poetry
The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang
February 1, 2022 | Fiction
Activities of Daily Living
Lisa Hsiao Chen
April 12, 2022 | Fiction
Dearth & God's Green Mirth [Audio]
Cody-Rose Clevidence
July 13, 2022 | Poetry
Groundskeeping
Lee Cole
March 1, 2022 | Fiction
Quarry's Blood
Max Allan Collins
February 22, 2022 | Fiction
Star Lake
Arda Collins
April 1, 2022 | Poetry
The Truth About the Sun
Jamie Cooper
March 25, 2022 | Poetry
Gravity Hill
Susanne Davis
September 13, 2022 | Fiction
The Recruit
Alan Drew
June 14, 2022 | Fiction
Boys In Exile
Richard Duggin
June 10, 2022 | Fiction
Radioman: Twenty-Five Years in the Marine Corps
Andrew Hesterman and Robert Einaudi
April 8, 2022 | Memoir
Here Lies
Olivia Clare Friedman
March 22, 2022 | Fiction
The Machine Stops [opera]
Cecile Goding (Librettist) and John Lake (Composer)
July 30, 2022 | Opera
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
January 4, 2022 | Fiction
Mercy Street
Jennifer Haigh
February 1, 2022 | Fiction
Catching the Light
Joy Harjo
October 4, 2022 | Memoir
Oblivion: An After Autobiography
Robin Hemley
June 1, 2022 | Fiction
The Tiltersmith
Amy Herrick
April 5, 2022 | Fiction
Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever
Elin Hilderbrand
October 4, 2022 | Fiction
MissSettl
Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
April 1, 2022 | Poetry
Don’t Look at Me
Charles Holdefer
October 15, 2022 | Fiction
The Kingdom of Sand
Andrew Holleran
June 7, 2022 | Fiction
The Unfolding
A.M. Homes
September 6, 2022 | Fiction
Still Life
Jay Hopler
April 5, 2022 | Poetry
Search
Michelle Huneven
April 26, 2022 | Fiction
Disbound
Hajar Hussaini
November 21, 2022 | Poetry
The Chinese Zodiac: And Other Paths to Luck, Riches, and Prosperity
Aaron Hwang
December 6, 2022 | Nonfiction
God's Children Are Little Broken Things
Arinze Ifeakandu
June 7, 2022 | Fiction
Notes From The Road
Mike Ingram
March 15, 2022 | Memoir
Chasers
Stephen Ira
March 22, 2022 | Poetry
The Last Chairlift
John Irving
October 18, 2022 | Fiction
Life Is Everywhere
Lucy Ives
October 4, 2022 | Fiction
Touch Anywhere to Begin
Mark Anthony Jarman
September 20, 2022 | Essay
Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Gish Jen
February 1, 2022 | Fiction
A Book About Myself Called Hell
Jared Joseph
February 15, 2022 | Fiction
Billie Starr's Book of Sorries
Deborah E. Kennedy
October 4, 2022 | Fiction
Hist
Matthew Klane and James Belflower
September 1, 2022 | Poetry
The Little Witch's Guide to Backyard Magic
Heather Knox
July 19, 2022 | Nonfiction
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Jamil Jan Kochai
July 19, 2022 | Fiction
It got so dark
Benjamin Krusling
December 1, 2022 | Poetry
A Ribbon The Most Perfect Blue
Christine Kwon
March 31, 2022 | Poetry
Planet Drill
Jessica Laser
December 1, 2022 | Poetry
Nightwork
Lauren Levin
December 1, 2022 | Poetry
Sound Fury
Mark Levine
November 16, 2022 | Poetry
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
September 20, 2022 | Fiction
Daemon Blood
Mary Maddox
January 9, 2022 | Fiction
The Long Corner
Alexander Maksik
May 17, 2022 | Fiction
Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
February 8, 2022 | Fiction
Mercury Pictures Presents
Anthony Marra
July 19, 2022 | Fiction
May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future
Chris Martin
August 9, 2022 | Nonfiction, Essay
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
August 2, 2022 | Fiction
The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
October 4, 2022 | Fiction
2184 ½
Thomas C. Jackson and Fritz McDonald
December 1, 2022 | Fiction
Third State of Being
Cassidy McFadzean
January 1, 2022 | Poetry
Life's Work: A Memoir
David Milch
September 13, 2022 | Memoir
Tomorrow I Become a Woman
Aiwanose Odafen
April 28, 2022 | Fiction
Things They Lost
Okwiri Oduor
April 12, 2022 | Fiction
Harry Sylvester Bird
Chinelo Okparanta
July 12, 2022 | Fiction
Free Clean Fill Dirt
Caryl Pagel
September 13, 2022 | Poetry
Maybe It’s Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
Eileen Pollack
January 25, 2022 | Memoir
The Latinist
Mark Prins
January 4, 2022 | Fiction
Our Dark Academia
Adrienne Raphel
September 27, 2022 | Poetry
Night Is This Anyway
Robin Reagler
March 15, 2022 | Poetry
American Massif
Nicholas Regiacorte
May 1, 2022 | Poetry
Painting Beyond Walls
David Rhodes
September 13, 2022 | Fiction
Bassinet
Dan Rosenberg
February 16, 2022 | Poetry
Child Bed Fever
Kelly Rowe
November 28, 2022 | Poetry
The Seaplane on Final Approach
Rebecca Rukeyser
June 7, 2022 | Fiction
Mr. Freedom (Constellations: Studies in Science Fiction Film and TV)
Tyler Sage
June 1, 2022 | Criticism
ryman
Christian Schlegel
October 4, 2022 | Poetry
Six Walks
Ben Shattuck
April 19, 2022 | Memoir, Essay
The Very Last Interview
David Shields
March 29, 2022 | Memoir, Essay
I'll Show You Mine [film]
David Shields [writer]
April 16, 2022 | Film, Fiction
You Have a Friend in 10A
Maggie Shipstead
May 17, 2022 | Fiction
Outskirts
Heathen
April 5, 2022 | Poetry
The Tin Nose Shop
Don J Snyder
July 1, 2022 | Fiction
Endlessly Ever After
Laurel Snyder
April 19, 2022 | Fiction
Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family
Debra Spark and Deborah Joy Corey (eds.)
May 24, 2022 | Essay
The World of Pondside
Mary Helen Stefaniak
April 19, 2022 | Fiction
The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
Mary Helen Stefaniak
October 25, 2022 | Memoir, Essay
Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
James Sullivan
April 12, 2022 | Biography
January Fifteenth
Rachel Swirsky
June 14, 2022 | Fiction
A Map for the Missing
Belinda Huijuan Tang
August 9, 2022 | Fiction
Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either
Marisa Tirado
May 25, 2022 | Poetry
Mother Country
Jacinda Townsend
May 3, 2022 | Fiction
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
May 3, 2022 | Fiction
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs
Alonzo Vereen
December 6, 2022 | Nonfiction
They Can Take It Out
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
March 1, 2022 | Poetry
Dragonfly. Toad. Moon.
Mary Jane White
April 9, 2022 | Poetry
The Grievers' Group (eBook)
Richard Wiley
May 28, 2022 | Fiction
A Peculiar People
Steven Willis
April 5, 2022 | Poetry
Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson
January 11, 2022 | Fiction
The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption
Thomas Wolf and Patricia L. Bryan
July 21, 2022 | Biography
Spooks
Stella Wong
March 15, 2022 | Poetry
The Real World
Emma Winsor Wood
January 1, 2022 | Poetry
Monarch
Candice Wuehle
March 22, 2022 | Fiction