Books by Graduates

Creative Writing

Holly Amos

  • Continual Guidance of Air (H_NGM_N Books, 2016)

Tony Ardizzone

  • The Whale Chaser (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2010)
  • 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, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
  • In the Name of the Father (Doubleday, 1978)

Thomas M. Atkinson

  • Strobe Life (Electron Press, 20001; print version, 2015).

Karen Babine

  • Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)

A.A. Balaskovits

  • Magic for Unlucky Girls (SFWP Press, 2016). Winner, SFWP 2015 Literary Awards Program.

Karin Wraley Barbee

  • Go Life! (Another New Calligraphy Press).

Brian Beatty

  • Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2016)

Ellen Behrens

  • None but the Dead and Dying (Baskerville, 1996)

Matt Bell

  • A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories (Soho 2016)
  • Scrapper (Soho, 2016)
  • Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
  • In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods (Soho, 2013)
  • Cataclysm Baby (Mud Luscious Press, 2012)
  • How They Were Found (Keyhole Press, 2010)
Seth Berg
  • Aviary (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017). With Bradford Wolfenden II. Winner, Artistically Declined Twin Antlers Prize
  • Muted Lines From Someone Else's Memory (Dark Sky Press, 2010). Winner, 2009 Dark Sky Press Book Contest

Mark Berman

  • An Introduction to Hedge Funds (Risk Books, 2007)
  • 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)

William Billiter

  • Stutter (University of Geogia Press, 2011). Winner, 2010 National Poetry Series Open Book Competition.

Mary Biddinger

  • The Czar Paperback (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). With Jay Robinson.
  • A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Books, 2014)
  • O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Books, 2012)
  • Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007)

James Carlos Blake

  • The Ways of the Wolfe (Grove/Atlantic, 2017)
  • The House of Wolfe (Grove/Atlantic, 2015)
  • The Rules of Wolfe (Grove/Atlantic, 2013)
  • Country of the Bad Wolfes (Cinco Puntos, 2012)
  • The Killings of Stanley Ketchel (William Morrow, 2005)
  • Handsome Harry (William Morrow, 2004)
  • Under the Skin (William Morrow, 2003). Winner, 2007 Maltese Falcon Award (Japan) for crime novel in translation.
  • A World of Thieves (William Morrow, 2002)
  • Wildwood Boys (William Morrow 2000)
  • Borderlands: Short Fictions (Avon, 1999). Winner, Southwest Book Award.
  • Red Grass River (Avon, 1998). Winner, Chautaqua South Fiction Award and French Gran Prix du Roman Noir Étranger (2013).
  • In the Rogue Blood (Avon, 1997). Winner, 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)

Justin Bog (Bogdanovitch)

  • The Conversationalist and Other Dark Tales (Booktrope, 2015).
  • Hark--A Christmas Collection (Booktrope, 2014).
  • Sandcastle and Other Stories (Green Darner Press, 2014). Winner, Best Suspense Anthology 2013 sponsored by Suspense Magazine.

Philana Marie Boles

  • Glitz (Viking, 2011)
  • Little Divas (Amistad, 2006)
  • In the Paint (Amistad, 2005)
  • Blame It on Eve (Random House, 2002)

John Bradley

  • You Don't Know What You Don't Know (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010). Winner, CSU Poetry Center Open Competition.
  • War on Words (BlazeVOX, 2007)
  • Terrestrial Music (Curbstone, 2006)
  • Love-In-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello (Word Works Press, 1989)

Christine Brandel

  • Tell this to Girls: The Panic Annie Poems (Through The Split Window Press, 2013)
  • A Wife Is a Hope Chest (Brain Mill Press, 2017). Winner, Mineral Point Poetry Series.

Mark Brazaitis

  • Truth Poker (Autumn House Press, 2016). Winner, Autumn House Press Fiction Competition.
  • Julio & Rodrigo (Gival Press, 2013). Winner, 2012 Gival Press Novel Award.
  • The Incurables (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012). Winner, 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize.
  • The Other Language (ABZ Press, 2008). Winner, ABZ Press First Book Prize.
  • An American Affair: Stories (Texas Review Press, 2006). Winner, 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

  • Snakeskin Road: A Novel (Bantam, 2009)
  • 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

  • Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems (Paraclete Poetry Press, 2015)
  • Idiot Psalms: New Poems (Paraclete Poetry, 2014)
  • Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage (Harper San Francisco, 2007)
  • Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (Paraclete Press, 2007)
  • Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected (Paraclete Press, 2006)
  • 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)

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)

Richard Carr

  • Imperfect Prayers (Steel Toe Books, 2012)
  • Dead Wendy (Future Cycle Press, 2012)
  • One Sleeve (Evening Street Press, 2011)
  • Ace (Word Works Press, 2009). Winner, Washington Prize.
  • Street Portraits (Backwaters Press, 2009)
  • Honey (Gival Press, 2008). Gival Press Poetry Award.
  • Mister Martini (University of North Texas Press, 2008). Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry.

Michael Carroll

  • Little Reef and Other Stories (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)

Justin Carter

  • Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024)

Grant Clauser

  • Reckless Constellations (Cider Press Review, 2018)
  • The Trouble with Rivers (Foothills, 2012)

D. Clinton

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

Abigail Cloud

  • Sylph (Pleiades/LSU Press, 2014). Winner, Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize.

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)

Juliet Cook

  • A Red Witch, Every Which Way (Hysterical Books, 2016). With J. J. Hastain.

David Craig

  • Mary's House: New and Selected Poems (Idylls Press, 2007)
  • Mercy's Face: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2000 (Franciscan University Press, 2001)
  • Luggage Labels (Chronicle Books, 1988)
  • Peter Maurin and Other Poems (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1985)
  • The Sandaled Foot (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1980)

Karen Craigo

  • Passing Through Humansville (Sundress, 2018)
  • No More Milk (Sundress Publications, 2016)

Michael Czyzniejewski

  • I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories (Curbside Splendor, 2015)
  • Chicago Stories (Curbside Splendor Press, 2012)
  • 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

  • Late Invocation for Magic: New and Selected Poems, Michigan State University Press, 2026.
  • An Ignorance of Trees, essays, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: Cornerstone Press, 2025.
  • The Luck of the Fallfiction, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2023.
  • Ars Poetica Chemistricapoetry, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg: WPA Press, 2025.
  • Comment Cardpoetry, Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024.
  • Human Engine at Dawn, poetry, South Bend, IN: Wolfson Press, University of Indiana-South Bend, 2022.
  • Gun/Shy, poetry, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
  • RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music. Eds. Jim Daniels & M.L. Liebler. Michigan State University Press, 2019.
  • I Just Want to Testify: Poems on the Music of Detroit. Eds. Jim Daniels & M.L. Liebler. Michigan State University Press, 2019.
  • The Perp Walk, fiction, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
  • The Middle Ages, poetry, Santa Fe: Red Mountain Press, 2018.
  • Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press, 2017)
  • Street Calligraphy (Steel Toe Books, 2017)
  • Eight Mile High (Stories) (Michigan State University Press, 2014)
  • Birth Marks (BOA Editions, 2013)
  • 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, American Book Award 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)

Noelle de Jesus

  • Blood: Collected Stories (Ethos Books Singapore, 2016)

Anthony Doerr

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (Scribner, 2014). Winner, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Finalist, National Book Award.
  • Memory Wall (Scribner, 2010). Winner, Story Prize.
  • 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 A. Dougherty

  • Grace Street (2016, Cayuga Lake Books)
  • Everyday Objects (2015, Plain View Press)
  • Part Darkness, Part Breath (2008, Plain View Press)
  • Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree (WordTech, 2008)

James Dunham

  • The Helena Orbit (Lillicat Publishers, 2017)

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)

Samantha Fain

  • Are You There (Bad Betty Press, 2024)
  • Musica de Caballo Triste (Cicada Editora, 2024)
  • sad horse music (The Daily Drunk, 2021)
  • Coughing Up Planets (VA Press, 2021)

Jeff Fearnside

  • Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016)

Robert Ferrigno

  • Heart of the Assassin (Scribners, 2009)
  • 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.

Cal Freeman

  • Brother of Leaving (Antonin Artaud Publications, 2014)

Carolyn Forche

  • 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

  • Mrs. Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz: New and Selected Prose Poems (Backwaters Press, 2012)
  • We Did Not Fear The Father: New & Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012)
  • Frankenstein Was A Negro (Morris Pub, 2002)
  • The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997)
  • Darvil (St. Andrew's Press, 1993)

Melissa Fraterrigo

  • Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
  • The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press, 2006). Winner, Tartt First Fiction Award.

Peter Genovese

  • An Angel in the Street (Ramble House Press, 2005)

Michael Goddart

  • The Contentment Dividend: Meditations for Realizing Your True Self (2024)
  • A New Now: Your Guide to Mastering Wisdom Daily, Achieving Equilibrium, and Empowering Your Nobler Self (2021)
  • In Search of Lost Lives: Desire, Sanskaras, and the Evolution of a Mind&Soul (2018)
  • Bliss: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Your Spiritual Self (1999)
  • Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker's Guide (1998)

Jill Grunenwald

  • Hudson. Images of Modern America Series. (Arcadia Publishing, 2015)
  • Running with a Police Escort: Tales from the Back of the Pack (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017)

Maurice Guevara

  • Poema (Camino del Sol) (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
  • 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)

Amy Gustine

  • You Should Pity Us Instead: Stories (Sarabande Books, 2016)

Tasha Haas

  • Certain Dawn, Inevitable Dawn (Woodley Press, 2011)

Tina May Hall

  • The Physics of Imaginary Objects (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). Winner, Drue Heinz Award.

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)

Jason Marc Harris

  • Master of Rods and Strings (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2024)

David Hassler

  • Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kent 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-Mache 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)

Alan Heathcock

  • VOLT (Graywolf, 2011). Winner, Whiting Prize.

Nick Heeb

  • The Lucky Clover (Shotgun Honey Press, 2018)

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

  • Letters (1855). Burlington, VT: Ra Press, 2019.
  • Then. Prose Poems. Chicago, IL: Another New Calligraphy, 2015. [116 pages, handmade and numbered.] ANC026.
  • Chant. Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX[Books], 2008.
  • Lucy's Eggs: Short Stories & A Novella. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2006.
  • Sidewalk Portrait: Fifty-Fourth Floor and Falling. Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX[Books], 2006. Print Publication.
  • Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse. Contributions in Philosophy, vol. 57. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
  • Snow Fleas. Prose. Chicago, IL:Another New Calligraphy, 2017. [44 pages, handmade and numbered.] ANC044. Chapbook.
  • The Blueline AnthologyEd. with Anthony O. Tyler, Stephanie Coyne-DeGhett, Myra Gann, Alan Steinberg, and Alice Wolf Gilborn.Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2004.

Dustin M. Hoffman

  • One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist: Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Winner, Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.

Joanna Howard

  • Foreign Correspondent (Counterpath Press, 2013)
  • On the Winding Stair (BOA Editions Ltd., 2009)

William Jablonsky

  • The Clockwork Man (Medallion Press, 2010)
  • The Indestructible Man: Stories (Livingston Press, 2005)

Vanessa Furse Jackson

  • The Anthropologist's Daughter (Barking Rain Press, 2014)
  • The Revolving Year (Barking Rain Press, 2013). 
  • Small Displacements (Livingston Press, 2010). Winner, PEN Texas 2011 Southwest Award for Fiction.
  • What I Cannot Say to You: Stories (University of Missouri Press, 2003) 

Tyler Jacobs

  • The Weight of Drought (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, forthcoming)
  • Building Brownville (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022)

Susu Jeffrey

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

Brandon Jennings

  • The Red Book or Operation Iraqi Freedom is My Fault (Little Presque Books, 2017)
  • Battle Rattle and Other Stories (Alas Books, 2016)

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, NYU Press Award for Fiction.

Kawita Kandpal

  • Folding a River (Marick Press, 2007)

David James Keaton

  • Pig Iron (Burnt Bridge Books, 2015)
  • The Last Projector (Broken River Books, 2014)
  • Fish Bites Cop!: Stories To Bash Authorities (Comet Press, 2013). Winner, This Is Horror Short Story Collection of the Year Award.

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

  • Words to Die For (New Pulp Press, 2015)
  • Late Rain (Tyrus Books, 2010). First-ranked among Ten Best Mystery / Crime Novels of 2010 by Spinetingler Magazine.
  • The Long Fall (Carroll & Graf, 2003)
  • A Choice 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

  • The Number of Names: Poems (Sunstone Press, 2012)
  • Whose Body (Sunstone Press, 2007)
  • 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). Winner, Minnesota Voices Project.

George Looney

  • Meditations Before the Windows Fail (Lost Horse Press, 2015)
  • Structures the Wind Sings Through (Crescent Press, 2014)
  • Monks Beginning to Waltz (Truman State University Press, 2012)
  • A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011)
  • Open Between Us (Turning Point, 2010)
  • The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels (White Pine Press, 2005). Winner, 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)

Joseph Mackall

  • Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish (Beacon Press, 2007)
  • The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)

Saikat Majumdar

  • Firebird (Hachette Preess, 2016)
  • Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (Columbia University Press, 2013)
  • Silverfish (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

  • Dad's Bald Head (Walker and Company, 2007)
  • 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)

Tessa Mellas

  • Lungs Full of Noise (University of Iowa Press, 2014). Winner, Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Teresa Milbrodt

  • The Larissa Stories (Pressgang, 2014)
  • The Odyssey of the Cyclops (Boxfire Press, 2013)
  • Bearded Women: Stories (ChiZine Publications, 2011)

Gary L. McDowell

  • Mysteries in a World that Thinks There Are None (Burnside Review Press, 2016). Winner, 2014 Burnside Review Book Prize.
  • Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral (Dream Horse Press, 2014)
  • American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010). Winner, 2009 Orphic Poetry Book Prize.

Monica McFawn

  • Bright Shards of Somewhere Else (University of Georgia Press, 2014). Winner, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Rebecca Meacham

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

Brad Aaron Modlin

  • Everyone at This Party Has Two Names (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2016). Winner, Cowles Prize.

Berwyn Moore

  • O Body Swayed (Cherry Grove Collections, 2009)
  • Dissolution of Ghosts (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005)

Caroline Morrell

  • Final Fort (Brighthill Press, 2016). Winner, Brighthill Press Book Competition.

Tom Morrisey

  • Pirate Hunter (Bethany House, 2012)
  • 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)

Lydia Netzer

  • How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel  (St. Martin's Press, 2014)
  • Everybody's Baby (St. Martin's Press, 2014)
  • Shine Shine Shine (St. Martin's Press, 2012)

Susan Neville

  • Butler's Big Dance: The Team, the Tournament, and Basketball Fever (Indiana University Press, 2010)
  • Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning (MacMurray & Beck, 2001)
  • In the House of Blue Lights (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). Winner, Richard Sullivan Prize for Short Fiction.
  • 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

  • Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009)
  • Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004)
  • Revenants (Coffee House Press, 2000)

Dan O'Brien

  • The Indian Agent: A Novel (The Lyons Press, 2004)
  • 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). Winner, Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Martha O'Connor

  • The Bitch Posse (St. Martin's, 2005)

Suzanne Ondrus

  • Passion Seeds (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2014). Winner, Vernice Quebodeaux Pathways Poetry Prize.

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)

Tristan Palmgren

  • Quietus (Angry Robot Books, 2018).

Anne Panning

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

Zachary Parker

  • Wrath of the Dragonfather (Skull Island eXpeditions, 2016)

Craig Paulenich

  • St. Vitus Dance (Cervena Barva Press, 2012)
  • Blood Will Tell (Blaze Vox Books, 2009)
  • 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).

Tania Runyan

  • A Thousand Vessels: Poems (Wordfarm, 2011)
  • Simple Weight (FutureCycle Press, 2010). Finalist for the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize.

Patrick Ryan

  • The Dream Life of Astronauts: Stories (The Dial Press, 2016)
  • Gemini Bites (Scholastic, 2011)
  • In Mike We Trust (Harper Collins, 2009)
  • Saints of Augustine (Harper Collins, 2007)
  • Send Me (Dial Press/Random House, 2006)

F. Daniel Rzicznek

  • Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press, 2009)
  • 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 Unauthorized Audubon (Michigan State University Press, 2014)
  • Never the Whole Story (Michigan State University Press, 2011)
  • 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, Willa Cather Fiction Prize.

David Spiering

  • My Father's Gloves (Sol Press, 2009)

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

  • Negative Space (Counterpoint, 2010)
  • 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

  • In Which Brief Stories Are Told (Wayne State University Press, 2011)
  • Mutual Shores (New Issues, 2000)

Ann Anderson Stranahan

  • Window on the River (Antrim, 2011)

Jeff Strand

  • A Bad Day for Voodoo (Sourcebooks Fire, 2012)
  • Dweller (Leisure Books, 2010)
  • Benjamin's Parasite (Delirium Books, 2009)
  • Gleefully Macabre Tales (Delirium Books, 2008)
  • Disposal (Delirium Books 2007)
  • Elrod McBugle On The Loose (Hard Shell Word Factory, 2007)
  • Haunted Forest Tour (Delirium Books 2007). With James A. Moore.
  • How to Rescue a Dead Princess (Mundania Press, 2006)
  • Pressure (Dorchester Publishing, 2009; Earthling Publications, 2006)
  • Casket for Sale (Only Used Once) (Mundania Press, 2005)
  • Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) (Mundania Press, 2005)
  • Single White Psychopath Seeks Same (Mundania Press, 2005)
  • Out of Whack (Hard Shell Word Factory, 2004)
  • Mandibles (Mundania Press, 2003)

Marc Sumerak

  • The World According to Thor (Insight Legends, 2015)
  • The World According to Iron Man (Insight Legends, 2015)
  • All-Ghoul School (IDW Publishing, 2011)
  • Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius Ultimate Collection--Book 2 (Marvel, 2010)
  • Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius Ultimate Collection--Book 1 (Marvel, 2010)
  • Dark Reign: The Sinister Spider-man (Marvel, 2010)
  • Wolverine: Tales of the Weapon (Marvel, 2009)
  • Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man--Identity Crisis (Marvel, 2008)
  • Spider-Man J: Turning Japanese (Marvel, 2008)
  • Marvel Adventures: Avengers--Mighty Marvels (Marvel, 2008)
  • Iron Man & Power Pack: Armored and Dangerous (Marvel, 2008)
  • Franklin Richards: Collected Chaos (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

  • Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature: Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney (Michigan State University Press, 2011)
  • 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 [Bogota], 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

  • The Year We Left Home: A Novel (Simon and Schuster, 2011)
  • Do Not Deny Me: Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
  • Throw Like a Girl: Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
  • City Boy: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
  • 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)

Anne Valente

  • Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (William Morrow/Harper Collins 2017).
  • By Light We Knew Our Names: Stories (Dzanc 2014). Winner, 2011 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition.

Katrina Vandenberg

  • The Alphabet Not Unlike the World  (Milkweed Editions, 2012)
  • Atlas (Milkweed Editions, 2004)

Beth Copeland Vargo

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

Anna Rose Welch

  • Noah's Woods (Alice James Books, 2018). Winner, Alice James 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

  • Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009)
  • 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

  • Four Secrets (Carolrhoda Books, 2012)
  • A Summer of Silk Moths (Flux, 2009)
  • The 3 Bears and Goldilocks (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008)
  • Clever Beatrice (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001). Winner, 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)
Hannah Yerington
  • Garlic Moon (Monkfish Publishing Press, Fall 2026/Winter 2027)

Bradford Wolfenden II

  • Aviary (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017). With Seth Berg.

Fred Zackel

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

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