Tony Ardizzone
In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (Picador, 1999)
Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood (University of Illinois Press, 1996)
Larabi’s Ox: Stories of Morocco (Milkweed Editions, 1992). Recipient, Milkweed National Fiction Prize
Heart of the Order (Holt, 1986).
The Evening News (University of Georgia Press, 1986). Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
In the Name of the Father (Doubleday, 1978).

Ellen Behrens
None but the Dead and Dying (Baskerville, 1996)

Mark Berman
A Practitioner's Guide to SEC Regulation Outside the United States (City and Financial Publishing, 1998).

Robert Berner
Geography Lessons and Other Poems (Fulcourt Press, 1973)

Mary Biddinger
Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007)

James Carlos Blake
The Killings of Stanley Ketchel (William Morrow 2005)
Handsome Harry (William Morrow 2004)
Under the Skin (William Morrow 2003)
A World of Thieves (William Morrow 2002)
Wildwood Boys (William Morrow 2000)
Borderlands: Short Fictions (Avon 1999). Winner of the Southwest Book Award.
Red Grass River (Avon 1998). Winner of the Chautaqua South Fiction Award.
In the Rogue Blood (Avon 1997). Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction.
The Friends of Pancho Villa (Berkley Books 1996)
The Pistoleer: A Novel of John Wesley Hardin (Berkley Books 1995)

Philana Marie Boles
Little Divas (Amistad, 2006)
In the Paint (Amistad, 2005)
Blame It on Eve (Random House, 2002)

John Bradley
War on Words (BlazeVOX, 2007)
Terrestrial Music (Curbstone, 2006)
Love-In-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello (Word Works Press, 1989)

Mark Brazaitis
An American Affair: Stories (Texas Review Press, 2006). Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize.
Steal My Heart: A Novel (Van Neste Books, 2001)
The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala (University of Iowa Press, 1998). Recipient of the Iowa Short Fiction Award.

James Braziel
Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam, 2008)

Denver Butson
illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2003)
Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews College Press, 2001)
triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999)

Scott Cairns
Philokalia: New & Selected Poems (Zoo Press, 2002)
Recovered Body (Braziller, 1998)
Figures for the Ghost (University of Georgia Press, 1994)
The Translation of Babel (University of Georgia Press, 1990)
The Theology of Doubt (Poetry Center, Cleveland State University, 1985)

Richard Carr
Mister Martini (University of North Texas Press, 2008). Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry.

John Calderazzo
Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives (Lyons Press, 2004)
101 Questions About Volcanoes (Southwest Parks & Mounuments Association, 1994)
Writing from Scratch: Freelancing (Rowman & Littlefield, 1990)

D. Clinton
The Coyot. Inca Texts (New Rivers Press, 1979)
The Conquistador Dog Texts (New Rivers Press, 1976)

Horace Coleman
In The Grass (Vietnam Generation & Burning Cities Press, 1995)
Between A Rock & A Hard Place (BKMK Press, 1977)

Alicia Conroy
Lives of Mapmakers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006)

David Craig
Mercy's Face: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2000 (Franciscan University Press, 2001)
Peter Maurin and Other Poems (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1985)
The Sandaled Foot (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1980)

Michael Czyzniejewski
Elephants in Our Bedroom (Dzanc Books, 2009)

Paul Dilsaver
Nurtz, Nutrz (Jelm Mountain Publications, 1989)
A Cure for Optimism: Poems (Sky & Sage Books)
Medi-phoria: Poems (Pariah Press)

James Daniels
In Line for the Exterminator (Wayne State University Press, 2007)
Mr. Pleasant (stories) (Michigan State University Press, 2007)
Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007)
Street (Bottom Dog Press, 2005)
Detroit Tales (stories) (Michigan State University Press, 2003)
Show and Tell (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars (New Issues Press, 2002)
Blue Jesus (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2000)
No Pets: Stories (Bottom Dog Press, 1999)
Blessing the House (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)
Niagara Falls (Adastra Press, 1994)
M-80 (poems) (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
Punching Out (Wayne State University Press, 1990)
Places/Everyone (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)

Tom DeHaven
Dugan Under Ground: A Novel (Metropolitan Books, 2002). Recipient of the 5th Annual Library of Virginia Fiction Award.
The Orphan's Tent (Atheneum, 1996)
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies: A Novel (Metropolitan Books, 1996). Winner of an American Book Award in 1996.
Green Candles (Paradox Press, 1995)
The Last Human (Bantam Books, 1992)
Chronicle of the King's Tramp (Doubleday/Foundation, 1990/1991)
Pixie Meat (Water Row Press, 1990)
Sunburn Lake: A Trilogy (Viking, 1988)
Joe Gosh (Walker Millennium, 1988)
U.S.S.A., Book 1 (Avon, 1987)
Funny Papers (Viking, 1985)
Jersey Luck (Harper, 1980)
Freaks' Amour (Morrow, 1978)

Anthony Doerr
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Scribner 2007).
About Grace: A Novel (Scribner, 2004).
The Shell Collector: Stories (Scribner, 2001). Winner, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers; New York Public Library's Young Lions Award.

Edward Dougherty
Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree (WordTech, 2008).

Robert Early
A Time of Madness (Graham, 1977)
Powers and Domination (Houghton, 1975)
The Jealous Ear (Houghton, 1973)

Erik Esckilsen
The Outside Groove (Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine, 2006)
Offsides (Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine, 2004)
The Last Mall Rat (Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine, 2003)

Robert Ferrigno
Sins of the Assassin (Scribners, 2008)
Prayers for the Assassin (Scribners, 2007)
The Wake Up (Pantheon, 2004)
Scavenger Hunt (Pantheon, 2003)
Flinch (Pantheon, 2001)
Heartbreaker (Pantheon, 2000)
Cheshire Moon (Morrow, 1996)
Dead Silent (Putnam, 1996)
Dead Man’s Dance (Putnam, 1995)
The Horse Latitudes (Morrow, 1990)

Tony Fitzpatrick
Signals from the Heartland (Walker and Co., New York, 1993). Cited among best books of creative nonfiction of 1993 by Library Journal.

Carolyn Forché
Blue Hour: Poems (HarperCollins, 2003)
Sorrow [by Claribel Alegria]. Translator. (Curbstone Press, 1999)
Colors Come from God-Just Like Me! (Abingdon Press, 1995)
The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1995). Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.
Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (Ecco Press, 1991). Translator with William Kulik.
Flowers From the Volcano [by Claribel Alegria]. Translator. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983)
The Country Between Us (Copper Canyon, 1981)
Gathering the Tribes (Yale University Press, 1976). Recipient of Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.

Charles Fort
Frankenstein Was A Negro (Morris Pub, 2002)
The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997)
Darvil (St. Andrew’s Press, 1993)

Melissa Fraterrigo
The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press, 2006). Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award.

Pete Genovese
An Angel in the Street (Ramble House Press, 2005).

Michael Goddart
Bliss: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Your Spiritual Self (1999)
Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker’s Guide (1998)

Maurice Guevara
Autobiography of So-And-So: Poems in Prose (New Issues Press, 2001)
Poems of the River Spirit (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)
Postmortem: Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1994)

William Hallberg
Power, Passion, Honor and Glory: Five Heroes of Modern Golf (Sports Poetry in Motion, 1999)
The Soul of Golf (Fawcett Books, 1998)
The Rub of the Green (Ballantine, 1998)

David Hassler
Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kents State University Press, 2006). Prose and photo essays with Gary Harwood. Ohioana Book Award, the Carter G. Woodson Honor Book Award.
Red Kimono, Yellow Barn (Cloudbank Books, 2005). Ohio Poet of the Year Award 2006.

Jeanine Hathaway
The Self as Constellation: Poems (University of North Texas Press, 2002). Recipient, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry.
Motherhouse: A Novel (Hyperion, 1993)

W. Stephen Hathaway
A Kind of Redemption (Louisiana State University Press, 1991)

Susan Carol Hauser
My Kind of River: Love and the Mississippi (Center for American Places, 2009)
Field Guide to Ticks (Globe Pequot Press, 2008)
Outside After Dark: New & Selected Poems (Loonfeather Press, 2002)
You Can Write a Memoir (Writer's Digest Books, 2001)
Wild Rice Cooking: Harvesting, History, Natural History, Lore, and Recipes (Lyons, 2000)
Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup with a Primer for the Nove Sugarer (Lyons, 1997)
Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty (Papier-Mâché Press, 1996)
Nature's Revenge: The Secrets of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Their Remedies (Lyons & Burford, 1996)
Girl to Woman: A Gathering of Images (Astarte Shell, 1992)
Which Way to Look, (Loonfeather Press, 1992)
Redpoll on a Broken Branch (Same Name Press, 1992)
Meant to Be Read out Loud (Loonfeather Press, 1988)

Steve Heller
Father’s Mechanical Universe (BkMk Press, 2001)
The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman (Chelsea Green, 1987; 2nd ed. Anchor/Doubleday Books, 1989)
The Man Who Drank a Thousand Beers (Chariton Review Press, 1984)

Richard Henry
Lucy’s Eggs: Short Stories & A Novella (Syracuse UP, 2006)
Sidewalk Portrait: Fifty-Fourth Floor and Falling (BlazeVOX[Books], 2006)
Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse. Contributions in Philosophy, vol. 57. (Greenwood, 1996)

Christopher Hopper
The Lion Vrie: Second in the White Lion Chronicles (Tsaba House, 2007)
Rise of The Dibor: First in the White Lion Chronicles (Tsaba House, 2006)

William Jablonsky
The Indestructible Man: Stories (Livingston Press, 2005)

Vanessa Furse Jackson
What I Cannot Say to You: Stories (University of Missouri Press, 2003)

Susu Jeffrey
Songs of the Gypsy Women (New Rivers Press, 1979)

Jerry Jerman
Calamity at the Circus (Victor Books, 1996)
The Secret of Whispering Woods (Victor Books, 1996)
Danger at the Outlaw Creek (Victor Books, 1995)
My Father the Horse Thief (Victor Books, 1995)
The Long Way Home (Victor Books, 1995)
Phantom of the Pueblo (Victor Books, 1995)

Jean Jones
Beyond Good & Evil (Fifth World Books, 1999)

Donald Judson
Bird-Self Accumulated (New York University Press, 2002). Winner of the NYU Press Award for Fiction.

Kawita Kandpal
Folding a River (Marick Press, 2007).

Marshall Klimasewiski
Tyrants (W.W. Norton, 2008)
The Cottagers (W.W. Norton, 2006)

Sam Koperwas
The Flash Effect (Morrow, 1994)
Easy Money (Morrow, 1982)
Hot Stuff (Dutton,1978)
Westchester Bull (Simon & Schuster, 1976)

Lynn Kostoff
The Long Fall (Carroll & Graf, 2003)
Choices of Nightmares (Crown, 1991)

Cheryl Lachowski
Homing (Bluestem Press, 2002). Recipient of the Bluestem National Prize.

Ann Larabee
The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Agent, Con Artist and Mass Murderer (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005).
Decade of Disaster (University of Illinois Press, 1999).

Donald Levering
Horsetail (Woodley Press, 2000)
Mister Ubiquity (Pudding House, 1997)
Outcroppings from Navajoland (Navajo Community College Press, 1985)

Karen Loeb
Jump Rope Queen and Other Stories (New Rivers Press, 1993). Minnesota Voices Project Winner.

George Looney
The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels (White Pine Press, 2005). Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
Attendant Ghosts (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2000)
Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh (Bluestem Press, 1995). Recipient of the Bluestem National Prize.

Tom Lorenz
Serious Living (Viking, 1988)
Guys Like Us (Viking, 1980)

Joesph Mackall
The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebrask Press, 2006)

Saikat Majumdar
Kin. (HarperCollins India, 2007)
Diminuendo. (Calcutta Writers’ Workshop, 1997)
Happy Birthday to You. (Calcutta Writers’ Workshop, 1996)
Hello Goodbye. (Calcutta Writers’ Workshop, 1996)
Infinitum Archipelago. (Calcutta Writers’ Workshop, 1994)

Paul Many
Walk Away Home (Walker and Company, 2002)
The Great Pancake Escape (Walker and Company, 2002). Named one of the "Best Children's Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times book editors.
My Life, Take Two (Walker and Company, 2000)
These Are the Rules (Walker and Company, 1997)

Doug Martin
Walt Whitman's Mimetic Prosody: Free-Bound and Full Circle (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004)
Moon-Time: The Country Born in November (Mellen Poetry Press, 2004)

Rebecca Meacham
Let's Do (University of North Texas Press, 2004). Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and selected for Barnes & Noble's "Discover Great New Writers" program.

Berwyn Moore
Dissolution of Ghosts (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005).

Tom Morrisey
In High Places (Bethany House, 2007)
Dark Fathom (Zondervan, 2005)
Deep Blue (Zondervan, 2005)
Turn Four (Zondervan, 2004)
Yucatan Deep (Zondervan, 2002)
Wild by Nature: True Stories of Adventure and Faith (Baker Book House, 2001)

Susan Neville
Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning (MacMurray & Beck, 2001)
In the House of Blue Lights (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998)
Indiana Winter (Indiana University Press, 1994)
Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Therapists (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994). With Sally French and Jo Laing.
The Invention of Flight (University of Georgia Press, 1974)

Randy Norris
Highway 61--Heart of the Delta (University of Tennessee Press, 2007)
Women of Coal (University Press of Kentucky, 1997)

Mark Nowak
Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004)
Revenants (Coffee House Press, 2000)

Dan O'Brien
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch (Random House, 2001)
The Contact Surgeon (The Lyons Press, 1999)
Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey (The Lyons Press, 1997)
Brendan Prairie (Scribner, 1997)
In the Center of the Nation (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991)
Spirit of the Hills (Crown, 1988)
Eminent Domain (University of Iowa Press, 1987)

Martha O'Connor
The Bitch Posse (St. Martin's, 2005)

William Page
William Page Greatest Hits: 1970-2000 (Puddinghouse Publications, 2001)
Bodies Not Our Own (Memphis State University Press, 1986)
The Gatekeeper (St. Luke's Press, 1982)
Clutch Plates (Branden Press, 1976)

Anne Panning
Super America (University of Georgia Press, 2007). Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Fiction.
The Price of Eggs (Coffee House Press, 1992)

Craig Paulenich
Drift of the Hunt (Nobodaddies Press, 2006).

Rachael Perry
How to Fly: Stories (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004). Winner, Best Book Award for Fiction by the Center for Great Lakes Culture at Michigan State University.

Carol Pierman
The Age of Krypton (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989)
The Naturalized Citizen (New Rivers Press, 1981)

Dan Raphael
Breath Test (Nine Muses, 2007).
When a Flying City Falls (Nine Muses, 2003).
Showing Light a Good Time (Jazz Police, 2001).
Molecular Jam (Jazz Police, 1996).
Bop Grit, Storm Cafe (Xerox Sutra, 1985).
Energumen (Cherry Valley, 1976)

Brent Royster
The Construction of Selves in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

F. Daniel Rzicznek
Neck of the World (University of Utah Press, 2007). Winner, May Swenson Poetry Prize.

Philip St. Clair
Acid Creek (Bottom Dog Press, 1997)
Little-Dog-Of-Iron (Ahsahta Press, 1985)
Acid Creek (Ahsahta Press, 1984)

June Saraceno
Altars of Ordinary Light (Plain View Press, 2007).

David Shevin
Three Miles from Luckey (Bottom Dog Press, 2002)
Needles and Needs (Bottom Dog Press, 1994)
The Discovery of Fire (Bottom Dog Press, 1988)

Anita Skeen
The Resurrection of the Animals: Poems (Michigan State University Press, 2002)
Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (Michigan State University Press, 1999)
Each Hand a Map (Naiad, 1986)

Gerard Donnelly Smith
El Cerro De la Estrella (Logan Elm Press, 1991)

June Spence
Change Baby (Riverhead Books, 2004).
Missing Women and Others (Riverhead Books, 1999). Winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize.

Mark Spencer
The Weary Motel (Backwaters Press, 2000). Winner of the Omaha Prize for the Novel and The Faulkner Society Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Love and Reruns in Adams County (Random House, 1994)
Wedlock (Watermark Press, 1990)
Spying on Lovers (Amelia Press, 1988)

Richard Stansberger
The Things of This World (Heartsblood Press, 1985)
Glass Hat (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
Don't Forget to Wind up the Moon (C.A.P.P. Books, 1978)

Robert Steiner
The Catastrophe (Sun and Moon, 1996)
Broadway Melody Nineteen Ninety-Nine (FC2/Black Ice Books, 1993)
Matinee: A Novel (FC2/Black Ice Books, 1989)
Dread (Sun and Moon, 1987)
The Bathers (New Directions, 1980)

Phillip Sterling
Mutual Shores (New Issues, 2000)
Whispers (Pollyanna Press, 2000)

Marc Sumerak
Franklin Richards 2008 Digest (Marvel, 2008)
Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius--Lab Brat (Marvel, 2007)
Hulk & Power Pack: Pack Smash! (Marvel, 2007)
Power Pack [Volume 1, Hardcover] (Marvel, 2007)
Spider-Man & Power Pack: Big-City Super Heroes (Marvel, 2007)
Avengers & Power Pack Assembled! (Marvel, 2006)
X-Men & Power Pack: The Power of X (Marvel, 2006)
Machine Teen: History 101001 (Marvel, 2005)
Marvel Age Fantastic Four: The Return of Doom (Marvel, 2005)
Ororo: Before the Storm (Marvel, 2005)
Power Pack: Pack Attack! (Marvel, 2005)
Marvel Age Fantastic Four: Doom (Marvel, 2004)

Cynthia Summers
Clanbook: Salubri (Vampire, The Dark Ages) (White Wolf Publishing, 1999)
Laws of the Hunt Players Guide (White Wolf Publishing, 1999). With Coranth Gryphon and Jess Heinig.
Dark Ages Clanbook (Libellus Sanguinis II) (White Wolf Publishing, 1998)
The Book of Ghouls (Mind’s Eye Theater) (White Wolf Publishing, 1997). With Glenys Ngaire McGhee

Carl Thayler
Shake Hands (Pavement Saw Press, 2001)
Poems from Naltsus Bichidin (Skanky Possum Press, 2000)
The Providings (Sumac Press, 1971)

Ronald Tobias
The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television (Writer's Digest Books, 1997)
20 Master Plots (and How to Build Them) (Writer's Digest Books, 1993)
Theme and Strategy (Writers Digest Books, 1989)
Kings and Desperate Men (Beyond Baroque Press, 1985)
Terror in the Embassy (Editorial Norma [Bogotá], 1984). With D. Asencio.
Our Man is Inside: Outmaneuvering the Terrorists. (Little, Brown, 1983). With Diego C. and Nancy Asencio.
They Shoot to Kill: A Psychological Survey of Criminal Sniping (Paladin Press, 1981)

Jean Thompson
Wide Blue Yonder (Scribner, 2002)
Who Do You Love (Scribner, 2000; Harcourt Brace, 1999). National Book Award Finalist.
The Woman Driver (F. Watts, 1985)
"Little Face" and Other Stories (F. Watts, 1984)
My Wisdom (F. Watts, 1982)
The Gasoline Wars: Stories (University of Illinois Press, 1979)

Katrina Vandenberg
Atlas (Milkweed Editions, 2004)

Beth Vargo
Traveling Through Glass: Poems (Bright Hill Press, 2000). Recipient, National Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award.

Allen Wier
Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)
A Place For Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989)
Departing As Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983)
Blanco (Louisiana State University Press, 1978)
Things About to Disappear: Stories (Louisiana State University Press, 1978)

Dara Wier
Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006)
Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005). Winner, American Poetry Archives and Poetry Book Award, San Francisco State University.
Voyages in English (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2001)
Hat on a Pond (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2001)
Our Master Plan (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1999)
Blue for the Plough (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1992)
The Book of Knowledge (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1988)
All You Have in Common (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1984)
Eight-Step Grapevine (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980)
Blood, Hook, and Eye (University of Texas Press, 1977)

Margaret Willey
Clever Beatrice (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001 ). Winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book.
Thanksgiving With Me (Laura Geringer Books, 1998)
Facing the Music (Delacorte, 1996)
The Melinda Zone (Bantam, 1993)
If Not for You (Harper, 1988)
Finding David Dolores (Harper, 1986)
The Bigger Book of Lydia (Harper, 1983)
Saving Lenny (Bantam, 1983)

Theresa Williams
The Secret of Hurricanes: A Novel (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2002)

Gary Wilson
Sing, Ronnie Blue (Rager Media, 2007)

Fred Zackel
Cocaine and Blue Eyes (Putnam, 1983; re-released, Point Blank, 2006)
Cinderella After Midnight (Coward McCann, 1980)


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