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