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
Local Virgin of Impression
Ellen Boyette
September 19, 2025 | Poetry
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
This Household of Earthly Nature
Cody-Rose Clevidence
September 15, 2025 | Poetry
A Chain of Devils
Thomas Corcoran
November 9, 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
No Life Forsaken (Witness, book 2)
Steven Erikson
October 28, 2025 | Fiction
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
September 16, 2025 | Fiction
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
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Stephen Starring Grant
July 8, 2025 | Memoir
Rabbit Moon
Jennifer Haigh
April 1, 2025 | Fiction
Sleep for Hours
Janelle Affiong Hall
April 2, 2025 | Poetry
Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd (The Heroic Legends Series) [E-book]
Shaun Hamill
December 23, 2025 | Fiction
Alien: Perfect Organisms
Shaun Hamill
October 28, 2025 | Fiction
Mothers and Sons
Adam Haslett
January 7, 2025 | Fiction
The Flight from Meaning
Stephen Haven
February 4, 2025 | Poetry
If You Say So
Michelle Herman
March 2025 | Essay
The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
September 16, 2025 | Fiction
The Figure Outward, by Jean Daive
Translated by Kevin Holden
May 30, 2025 | Poetry, translation
Play, With Knives
Jeanette Horn
March 4, 2025 | Fiction
Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven
June 2025 | Fiction
Queen Esther
John Irving
November 4, 2025 | Fiction
Once When Green
Mark Irwin
April 2025 | Poetry
Bad Bad Girl
Gish Jen
October 21, 2025 | Fiction
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
Close Escapes
Stephen Kuusisto
April 22, 2025 | Poetry
The Sweating Sickness
Rebecca Lehmann
February 2025 | Poetry
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
May 20, 2025 | Memoir
Grace Before the Fall
Geri Lipschultz
(with foreword by John Irving)
August 29, 2025 | Fiction
Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
Paul Lisicky
February 25, 2025 | Memoir, Essay, Biography
Trying x Trying
Dora Malech
September 2025 | Poetry
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
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
Elizabeth McCracken
December 2, 2025 | Memoir
New and Collected Hell
Shane McCrae
February 11, 2025 | Poetry
Child of These Tears
Molly McNett
September 30, 2025 | Fiction
Groceries
Nora Claire Miller
October 21, 2025 | Poetry
Only Son
Kevin Moffett
November 2025 | Fiction
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
Happy Bad
Delaney Nolan
October 14, 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
The Gospel of Salome
Kaethe Schwehn
October 15, 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
Minor Black Figures
Brandon Taylor
October 14, 2025 | Fiction
phases
Tramaine Suubi
January 28, 2025 | Poetry
Self Portrait as Vanishing Act
Leslie Ullman
March 2025 | Poetry
Fenestration
Othuke Umukoro
October 17, 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
The Pelican Child
Joy Williams
November 18, 2025 | Fiction
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 12, 2025 | Poetry