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UNCW creative writing students and alumni have published more than 300 books and chapbooks, spanning fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literature for young readers. Here’s a sampling of the honors our writers have earned:
- Jason Mott won the National Book Award for Fiction for Hell of a Book. His debut novel, The Returned, inspired the ABC television series Resurrection.
- Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams received both a Whiting Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.
- Xhenet Aliu won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories.
- Ashleigh Bryant Phillips won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize for Sleepovers.
- Brad Land’s debut memoir, Goat, was adapted into the 2016 feature film.
Our students and alumni publish with major houses and independent literary presses, including Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Algonquin, and Milkweed Editions. Their books reflect the range of voices, subjects, and creative approaches cultivated in our writing community.
Beyond books, their poems, stories, essays, and reviews appear widely in literary journals and magazines, including The Paris Review Daily, The Georgia Review, AGNI, Oxford American, River Teeth, and The Nation. Many begin building their publication records while still in the program.
Explore the books by our students and alumni below.
Published
Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (MFA '07)
- The Man Who Danced With Dolls (Madras Press, 2011)
Lavonne J. Adams (MFA '99)
- Through the Glorieta Pass (Pearl Books, March 2009)
- In the Shadow of the Mountain (North Carolina Writers’ Network, 2004)
- Everyday Still Life (North Carolina Writers’ Network / Persephone Press, 1999)
Ranjan Adiga (MFA '06)
- Leech & Other Stories (Penguin Random House India, 2024)
Xhenet Aliu (MFA '07)
- Everybody Says It’s Everything (Random House, 2025)
- Brass (Random House, 2018)
- Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2013) —Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction—
Austin Allen (MFA '17)
- Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press, 2016)
Peter C. Baker (MFA '14)
- Planes (Knopf/Penguin Random House, 2022)
Meghan Barnes (MFA '11)
Anne Clinard Barnhill (MFA '01) - Remembering Anne Barnhill 🕯
- The Beautician's Notebook (Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC, 2017)
- Queen Elizabeth's Daughter (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014)
- At the Mercy of the Queen: A Novel of Anne Boleyn (St. Martin's Press, 2012)
- Coal, Baby (FinishingLine Press, 2012)
- What You Long For (Main Street Rag, 2009)
- At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister, and Me (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007)
Thomas Scott Benedict (BFA '08)
- Worlds: The Conciousness Code (Worlds Publishing, 2021)
Caroline Beuley (MFA '26)
- Between Our Legs: Silence-Breaking Personal Narratives on Gynecological Health (University of Iowa Press, 2026) — co-editor with Justine Payton
George Bishop, Jr. (MFA '01)
- The Night of the Comet (Ballantine Books, 2013)
- Letter to My Daughter (Random House, 2010)
Emma Bolden (MFA '05)
- The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull, 2022)
- House is an Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018) — Winner of the 2017 Cowles Poetry Prize—
- medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016)
- Geography V (Argus House Press, 2014)
- Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013)
- The Chapbook, Volume 2: This Is Our Hollywood (The Chapbook, 2013)
- The Sad Epistles (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)
- The Mariner's Wife (Finishing Line Press, 2008)
- How to Recognize a Lady (published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press' Quartet Series, 2007)
Michelle Boyajian (MFA '05)
- Lies of the Heart (Viking Adult, 2010)
Jason Bradford (MFA '16) - A Celebration of Jason Bradford 🕯
- Stellaphasia (North American Review Press, 2022)
- The Inhabitants (Final Thursday Press, 2013)
- A Brief History of Wilmington (Java Dog Press, 2018)
Emily Carr (MFA '04)
- Name Your Bird Without A Gun (Spork Press, 2020)
- whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet— (McSweeney’s, 2016)
- Up the Shinbone Superlatives (Horse Less Press, 2012)
- 13 Ways of Happily (Parlor Press, 2011)
- Directions for Flying / 36 fits: a young wife's almanac (Furniture Press Books, 2010)
Bill Carty (MFA '07)
- We Sailed on the Lake (Bunny Presse/Fonograf Editions, 2023)
- Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019)
- Refugium (Alice Blue Books, 2012)
Jonathan Russell Clark (MFA '16)
- The Conversation: Movies Minute by Minute (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2026)
- Skateboard (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
- An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (Fiction Advocate, 2018)
Kennedy Cole (BFA '24)
- There Used to Be People Here (Berkley, 2026)
Tim Conrad (MFA '09)
- The Machine We Trust (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
Sarah Creech (BFA '05)
- The Whole Way Home (William Morrow, 2017)
- Season of the Dragonflies (William Morrow, 2014)
Patrick Culliton (MFA '06)
- Sam’s Teeth (Subito Press, 2017)
Kate Cumiskey (MFA '06)
- Surfers' Rules: The Mike Martin Story (Silent E Publishing, 2022:TBA)
- Ana (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
- The Women Who Gave Up Their Vowels (Finishing Line Press, 2021)
- The University of Central Florida Through Time (America Through Time, 2015)
- Yonder (Silent E Publishing, 2014)
- Surfing in New Smyrna Beach (Arcadia Publishing, 2010)
John A. Dailey (MFA '19)
- Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Samantha Deal (MFA '13)
Daren Dean (MFA '03)
- lovesick (Louisiana Literature Press, 2025)
- The New Salvation (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2025)
- Shelter Me (Livingston Press, 2025)
- Roads: A Novel (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2023)
- This Vale of Tears ( Cowboy Jamboree, 2021)
- The Black Harvest (University of West Alabama's Livingston Press, 2021)
- I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone (CJ Press, 2019)
- Far Beyond the Pale (CreateSpace, 2010)
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye (MFA ’15)
- The Vietri Project (HarperCollins, 2021)
Brian Devido (MFA '01)
- Every Time I Talk to Liston (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004)
Regina DiPerna (MFA '13)
- A Map of Veins (Floodgate Poetry Series, 2018)
Alexa Doran (MFA '15)
- Exit Interview (Galileo Press, 2026)
- DM Me, Mother Darling (Bauhan Publishing, 2021) —Winner of the 2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize—
- Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press, 2019)
Kevin Dublin (BFA '10)
- Eulogy (Raven & Wren Press, 2023)
- How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Jason Frye (MFA '05)
- Moon Asheville (Moon Travel, 2023)
- Moon Great Smoky Mountains (Moon Travel, 2022)
- Moon Road Trips: Blue Ridge Parkway (Avalon Travel, 2015)
- Moon North Carolina Coast (Avalon Travel, 2014)
- Moon North Carolina (Avalon Travel, 2014)
Adam Gnuse (MFA '19)
- Girl in the Walls (Ecco-, 4th Estate /HarperCollins, 2021)
Nina de Gramont (MFA '06)
- Peregrine Hill (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
- The Christie Affair (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
- The Distance from Me to You (Putnam's Sons, 2015)
- The Last September (Algonquin, 2015)
- The Boy I Love (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
- Meet Me at the River (Atheneum, 2013)
- Rogue Touch (Kingswell, 2013)
- Every Little Thing in the World (Atheneum, 2010)
- Gossip of the Starlings (Algonquin Books, 2008)
- Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion, co-editor (MacAdam Cage, 2007)
- Of Cats and Men (Random House, 2002)
Evan Gray (MFA '17)
- Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars (Garden-Door Press, 2023)
- Body Birth (Above/Ground Press, 2019)
- Dusk Melody (Shirt Pocket Press, 2019)
- Blindspot (the Rest (Garden-Door Press, 2018)
Dina Greenberg (MFA '15)
- Prayers for the Lost & for the Living (Sligo Creek Publishing Company, 2025)
- Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021)
Summer Hammond (MFA '19)
- The Impossible Why (Apprentice House Press, 2026)
David Harris-Gershon (MFA '09)
- What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? (Oneworld Publications, 2013)
Eli Hastings (MFA '04)
- Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips (ECW Press, 2013)
- Falling Room (Bison Books, 2006)
Jeremy Hawkins (MFA '11)
- The Last Days of Video (Soft Skull Press, 2015)
Joy Hewett (MA '91)
- Blue Water White Sand (Silk Hope Press, 2017)
Jake Hinkson (MFA '06)
- You Will Never See Me (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)
- Find Him (Polis Books, 2022)
- Dry County (Pegasus Crime, 2019)
- No Tomorrow (New Pulp Press, 2015)
- The Blind Alley: Exploring Film Noir’s Forgotten Corners (Broken River Books, 2015)
- The Deepening Shade (All Due Respect Books, 2015)
- The Big Ugly (BEAT to a PULP, 2014)
- Saint Homicide (Crime Factory Publications, 2013)
- The Posthumous Man (BEAT to a PULP, 2012)
- Hell on Church Street (New Pulp Press, 2011)
Lauren Hodges (MFA '07)
- Less Stress, More Calm (Sound Wisdom, 2024)
Ben Hoffman (MFA '13)
- Together, Apart (Origami Zoo Press, 2014)
Kirsten Holmstedt (MFA '06)
- Soul Survivors (Stackpole Books, 2016)
- The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq (Stackpole Books, 2009)
- Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq (Stackpole Books, 2007)
Elizabeth King Humphrey (MFA '03)
- Idiot's Guide: Gluten-Free Eating (DK Publishing, Inc., 2014)
- The Feminist Movement Today (Mason Crest, 2013)
Rochelle Hurt (MFA '11)
- Book of Non (Broadstone Books, 2023) — with Carol Guess
- The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022) —Winner of the Indiana Review 2021 Blue Light Books Prize—
- In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street Press, 2016) —Winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize—
- The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine Press, 2014) —Winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series 2012 Open Submission Reading—
Erato Ioannou (MFA '01)
- Του Κανενός [No One’s] (Purple Squirrel, 2024)
- Not in the Ornamental Teapot, stories (Room for Art, 2020)
- So Many Islands, an anthology (Telegram Books, 2018)
- Tell Me A Tale, an anthology (Armida Publications, 2012)
- Cats Have it All (Armida Publications, 2004)
- Cyprus Engraved: A Book of History and Direction (Cyprus Museum, 2002)
Graham Irvin (MFA '18)
Ever Jones (MFA '08)
- Transanything (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2025)
- nightsong ( Sundress Publications, 2020)
Nancy J. Jones (MFA '98)
- Molly (Crown, 2000)
Kristine A. Kaiser (MFA '99)
- collection in the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago
- The Mattie McClane (Kristine Kaiser) Papers (1983 – 2023)
- other titles published with Myrtle Hedge Press
Shawna Kenney (MFA '07)
- Live at the Safari Club: A History of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital (Rare Bird Books, 2017)
- Book Lovers: Stories (editor) (Seal Press, 2014)
- Imposters (Mark Batty Publisher, 2008)
- I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2001)
Gwendolyn Knapp (MFA '06)
- After A While You Just Get Used To It: A Tale of Family Clutter (Gotham/Penguin Random House, 2015)
Keith Kopka (MFA '11)
- Crossing Disciplines: A Cross-Curricular Writing Guide (Kendall Hunt, 2022)
- Count Four (University of Tampa Press, 2020) —Winner of the 2019 Tampa Review Prize—
- Asking a Shadow to Dance: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry (Great River Learning, 2018)
Drew Krepp (MFA '15)
- Salt Marsh King (Bancroft Press, 2014)
Brad Land (MFA '02)
- Pilgrims Upon the Earth: A Novel (Random House, 2007)
- Goat: A Memoir (Random House, 2005)
Rory Laverty (MFA '07)
- Delivery Man (Skyhorse Publishing, 2025)
- Aluminum Alley: The American Pilots Who Flew Over the Himalayas and Helped Win World War II (Globe Pequot / Stackpole Books, 2023)
Johannes Lichtman (MFA '12)
- Calling Ukraine: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
- Such Good Work (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
Martha Lundin (MFA '17) (children's books written as Martha London)
- LGBTQ Rights and the Law (Essential Library / ABDO, 2019) — with Duchess Harris
- LGBTQ Social Movements in America (Essential Library / ABDO, 2019) — with Duchess Harris
- The In-Between State (Cornerstone Press, 2022)
- Challenges for LGBTQ Teens (Teen Problems) (Reference Point Press, 2020)
- Dealing with Gender Dysphoria (Reference Point Press, 2020)
Robert Dean Lurie (MFA '05)
- Begin the Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years (Verse Chorus Press, 2019)
- We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie (Liberty Island Media, 2016)
- The Edge: Life Lessons from a Martial Arts Master (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)
- No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church (Verse Chorus Press, 2009)
Josh MacIvor-Andersen (MFA ’11)
- Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction (Outpost19, 2023) — editor
- Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction (Outpost 19 Books, 2017)
- On Heights & Hunger (Outpost 19 Books, 2016)
Corinne Manning (MFA '10)
- We Had No Rules (Arsenal Pulp, 2020)
Catherine McCall (MFA '03)
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Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South (Harmony Books, 2006)
JM Miller (MFA '08)
- Primitive Elegy (alice blue books, 2016)
- Wilderness Lessons (FutureCycle Press, 2016)
Jacob Steven Mohr (BFA ’16)
- Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2023)
- Nightfall and Other Dangers (JournalStone, 2023)
- The Unwelcome (John Hunt Publishing, 2021)
- Daughter of Man (World Castle Publishing, 2018)
- The Book of Apparitions (Ugly Sapling, 2016)
Mamie Morgan (former MFA student, ’06)
- Midsummer Night’s Toast (Ohio University Press, 2026)
- My Husband Is Learning to Draw (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
- Everyone I’ve Danced with Is Dead (Jackleg Press, 2024)
Amelia Morris (MFA '09)
- Wildcat (Flatiron Books, 2022)
- Bon Appétempt (Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
Jamie Mortara (MFA '13)
- Good Morning American I Am Hungry and on Fire (YesYes Books, 2018)
- Some Planet (YesYes Books, 2015)
- Small Creatures/Wide Field (tNY.Press, 2014)
Jason Mott (MFA '08)
- People Like Us (Dutton, 2025)
- Hell of a Book (Dutton Press, 2021) —National Book Award Winner—
- The Crossing (Harlequin/Park Row, 2018)
- The Wonder of All Things (Mira Books, 2014)
- The Returned (Mira Books, 2013)
- The Choice (MIRA, 2013)
- The Sparrow (MIRA, 2013)
- The First: A Prequel to The Returned (Mira Books, 2013)
- ...Hide Behind Me... (Main Street Rag, 2011)
- We Call This Thing Between Us Love (Main Street Rag, 2009)
Ariana Nadia Nash (MFA '11)
- Instructions for Preparing Your Skin (Anhinga Press, 2013) —Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry—
- Our Blood Is Singing (Damask Press, 2012)
Jason Neese (BFA '03)
- The Traveling Audience (Storyteller Media, 2026)
Yvette Neisser (MFA '00)
- From the Diary of Madame Mao (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2026) — by María Teresa Ogliastri; co-translated with Patricia Bejarano Fisher
- Iron into Flower (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
- Grip Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award (Gival Press, 2012)
- South Pole/Polo Sur (translation) (Settlement House Books, 2011)
- Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems (1987-2006) (translation) (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009)
Brenda Nicholas (MFA '15)
- Day Swallows Night (Broadstone Books, 2023)
- Adrift a Fourth Wave (Kelsay Books, 2021)
- Hari Om, Hurry Home (Finishing Line Press, 2021)
Derek Nikitas (MFA '00)
- Diary of a Succubus (BookShots, 2017) — James Patterson with Derek Nikitas
- You’ve Been Warned–Again (BookShots, 2017) — James Patterson with Derek Nikitas
- Extra Life (Polis Books, 2015)
- The Long Division (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2009)
- Pyres (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008)
Ali Nolan (MFA '14)
- Master the Marathon (Penguin, 2021)
Leah Poole Osowski (MFA '14)
- Exceeds Us (Saturnalia Books, 2023)
- Hover Over Her (Kent State University Press, 2015) —Winner of the Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize—
Miriam Parker (MFA '08)
- Room and Board (Penguin Random House, 2022)
- The Shortest Way Home (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Justine Payton (MFA '26)
- Between Our Legs: Silence-Breaking Personal Narratives on Gynecological Health (University of Iowa Press, 2026) — co-editor with Caroline Beuley
Rebecca Petruck (MFA '07)
- Boy Bites Bug (ABRAMS/Amulet, 2018)
- Steering Toward Normal (ABRAMS/Amulet, 2014)
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (MFA '17)
- Sleepovers (Hub City Press, 2020) —Winner of 2019 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize—
Sumanth Prabhaker (MFA '07)
- A Mere Pittance (Madras Press, 2009)
Katie Prince (MFA '15)
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Tell This to the Universe (YesYes Books, 2024)
Benjamin Rachlin (MFA '15)
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Ghost of the Innocent Man (Little, Brown, 2017)
Dawn Evans Radford (MFA '99)
- Oyster Flats (Pottersville Press, 2007)
Jessica Nirvana Ram (MFA '22)
- Earthly Gods (Variant Lit, 2026)
- rebuilding the temple (Interrobang Press, 2018)
Michael Ramos (MFA '16)
- The After: A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home (The University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Cindy Horrell Ramsey (MFA '06)
- Boys of the Battleship North Carolina (John F. Blair, 2007)
Myra Tejada Rasmussen (MFA '14)
- Chakana (Kelsay Books, 2025)
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. (MFA '00)
- A La Carte: Short Stories That Stir the Foodie in All of Us (editor) (Main Street Rag, 2010)
- XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women (editor) (Main Street Rag, 2009)
- Flirting With Ridicule (Main Street Rag, 2005)
- You Should Get That Looked At (Main Street Rag, 2004)
James Rettig (MFA '27)
- Tangled Envisioning (Folkstone Press, 2025)
Carmen Rodrigues (MFA '10)
- The Universal Laws of Marco (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
- 34 Pieces of You (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
- Not Anything (Penguin Teen, 2008)
Jane Virginia Rohrer (MFA '18)
- Fake Floating (Above/Ground Press, 2019)
Anne Russell (MFA '99)
- Tropical Depression (Bradley Creek Press, 2013)
- The Wayward Girls of Samarcan, A True Story (Bradley Creek Press, 2012)
- Seabiscuit: Wild Pony of the Outer Banks (Coastal Carolina Press, 2001)
- Wilmington: A Pictorial History (Donning Pub, 1994)
Dana Sachs (MFA '00)
- The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam (Beacon Press, 2010)
- All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis (Bellevue Literary Press, 2023)
- The Secret of the Nightingale Palace: A Novel (William Morrow, 2013)
- If You Lived Here (HarperCollins, 2008)
- The House on Dream Street (Seal Press, 2003)
E.J. Schwartz (MFA '21)
- Before We Were Blue (Flux, 2021)
Kristina M. Serrano (BFA '12)
Daisuke Shen (MFA '20)
- Vague Predictions & Prophecies (CLASH Books, 2024)
- Funeral (KERNPUNKT Press, 2023) — with Vi Khi Nao
Rebecca Spiegel (MFA '20)
- Without Her (Milkweed Editions, 2024)
Ryan Spooner (BFA '09)
- Regret (Lettered Streets Press, 2014)
Megan Starks (MFA '10)
- House of Ash & Brimstone (Gatewalkers) (City Owl Press, 2019)
- Quicksand (Finishing Line Press, 2023)
- Where All The Birds Are Dancing (Finishing Line Press, 2020)
Faydra Stratton (MFA '03)
- Denali Summer (Orange Blossom Publishing, 2023)
- Devil Springs (Filles Vertes Publishing, 2020)
- Love on Main—a Romance Anthology (Filles Vertes Publishing, 2020)
Barbara Sullivan (MFA '11)
- Climate Change Gardening for the South: Planet-Friendly Solutions for Thriving Gardens (UNC Press, 2022)
- Garden Perennials for the Coastal South (UNC Press, 2003)
Anna B. Sutton (MFA '13)
- Savage Flower (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) —Winner of the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award—
Patrick Swaney (MFA '10)
- Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World (YesYes Books, 2025)
Kate Sweeney (MFA '09)
Gabriella Tallmadge (MFA '13)
- Sweet Beast (Trio House Press, 2021) —Winner of the 2020 Louise Bogan Award—
Bethany Tap (MFA '16)
- When Everything Was Fresh & Green (Quills and Cosmos Press, 2026)
Daniel Nathan Terry (MFA '10)
- City of Starlings (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015)
- Waxwings (Lethe Press, 2012)
- Days of Dark Miracles (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011)
- Capturing the Dead (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2008) —Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize—
McKenzie Teter (MFA '21)
- Butterfly Blade (Charlotte Lit Press, 2026)
Jessica Thummel (MFA '12)
- The Cure for Lonely (Freight Books, 2017) —Winner of the Dundee International Book Prize—
- other titles available from Jessica Thummel
Eric Tran (MFA '13)
- Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (Diode Editions, 2022) —Winner of the Oregon Book Award—
- The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, 2020) —Winner of the 2019 Rising Writer Contest—
- Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018)
- Affairs with Men in Suits (Backbone Press, 2017)
Matt Tullis (MFA '05) - Remembering Matt Tullis 🕯
- Stories Can Save Us: America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
- Running with Ghosts: A Memoir of Surviving Childhood Cancer (The Sager Group, 2017)
Jay Varner (MFA '07)
Carson Vaughan (MFA '14)
- Zoo Nebraska (Little A, 2019)
- I’m Glad I’m Not Me: Bob Dylan on Film (Columbia University Press, 2026)
- The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Wallflower Press, 2023)
Jesse Waters (MFA '02)
- Burning Roses in My Garden (translation) (India Penguin, 2023)
- So Let Me Get This Straight (Paycock Press, 2018)
- Human Resources (Ink Brush Press, 2011)
Caitlyn "Libby" Webber (BFA '10)
- The Assassin’s Alliance (Dead or Alive Press, 2025)
- The Assassin’s Storm (Dead or Alive Press, 2024)
- The Assassin’s Sin (Dead or Alive Press, 2023)
- The Assassin's Legacy (Dead or Alive Press, 2021)
Hannah Bunn West (BFA '09)
- Save Our Sand Dunes (UNC Press, 2024)
- Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks (Arcadia Publishing, 2022)
Piper L. White (BFA '22)
- All (Dead) Girls Lie (Row House Publishing, 2025)
- Barefoot in the Woods (Bottlecap Press, 2022)
Cheryl Wilder (BFA '05)
- Singing Riptide (Press 53, 2025)
- Anything that Happens (Press 53, 2021)
- What Binds Us (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Emily Paige Wilson (MFA '16)
- Four Months Past Florence (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2023)
- Jalubí (Unsolicited Press, 2022)
- Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods (Glass Poetry Press, 2020)
- I'll Build Us a Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Sidney Wollmuth (BFA '22)
- New Adult (Bottlecap Press, 2021)
Joseph Worthen (MFA '14)
- Paper Screens: The Internet in Contemporary Fiction (LSU Press, 2026)
- All Trap No Bait (Tortoise Books, 2025)
Snežana Žabić (MFA '05)
- Concrete Is More Beautiful Disfigured and Stained (Match Factory Editions, 2025)
- The Breath Capital (New Meridian Arts, 2016)
- Broken Records (Punctum Books, 2014)
- Po(jest)zija Po(eat)ry (SKCNS, 2013)
- U jednom životu (KOS, 1996)
Forthcoming
Emma Bolden (MFA '05)
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God Elegy (BOA Editions, 2028)
Rochelle Hurt (MFA '11)
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Lightboxes (Tupelo Press, 2027)
Johannes Lichtman (MFA '12)
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Intention (Knopf, 2027)
Corinne Manning (MFA '10)
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Dirty Joke (Bunny Press / Fonograf Editions, 2027)
Carson Vaughan (MFA '14)
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Dream Job: Confessions of a National Geographic Photographer (National Geographic, 2027)