Books by Workshop Writers
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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 and God's Green Mirth [Audio], by Cody-Rose Clevidence](/sites/writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/files/2024-04/Clevidence_2022Jul13.jpeg)
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
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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

Event Horizon
Cate Marvin
May 24, 2022 | Poetry

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
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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