Books by Alumni and Students - Creative Writing

Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

Unbound

Griots Lounge Publishing Canada (2024)

A Kind of Madness

Uche Okonkwo

Tin House Books (2024)

Plastic

Pantheon (2024)

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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez: A Novel

Grand Central Publishing (2023)

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In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories

Raul Palma

Indiana University Press (2023)

Vanishing Point

Kimberly Reyes

Omnidawn (2023)

Taste: A Book of Small Bites

Jehanne Dubrow

Columbia University Press (2022)

Blackout: A Thriller

Thomas & Mercer (2022)

Sugar Work

Katie Marya

Alice James (2022)

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From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska's Death Row

Cascade Books (2022)

New to Liberty

DeMisty D. Bellinger

Unnamed Press (2022)

MFA Thesis Novel

Ian M. Rogers

Vine Leaves Press (2022)

Velorio: A Novel

Xavier Navarro Aquino

HarperCollins (2022)

Sugarwork

Katie Marya

Alice James Books (2022)

Dominant Genes: A Hybrid Collection

SJ Sindu

Black Lawrence Press (2022)

Blue-Skinned Gods

SJ Sindu

Soho Press (2021)

Deer Season

University of Nebraska Press (2021)

Peculiar Heritage

DeMisty D. Bellinger

Mason Jar Press (2021)

Afterwards

Reagan Myers

Button Poetry (2021)

Nowhere: Poems

University of New Mexico Press (2021)

I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir

Precious Brady-Davis

TOPPLE Books & Little A (2021)

Bloodwater Parish

Arden Eli Hill

Seven Kitchens Press (2021)

Tuntuni and Other Jungle Tales from Bengal

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. Translated by Madhumita Gupta.

Mango Books (2021)

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

Edited by James Crews

Workman Press (2021)

Your Crib, My Qibla: African Poetry Book Series

University of Nebraska Press (2021)

More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser

Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, and Timothy Schaffert, eds.

University of Nebraska Press (2021)

The Other Names of Grief

Rasaq Malik

Konya Shamsrumi (2021)

Pickard County Atlas: A Novel

Chris Harding Thornton

MCD (2021)

Big Life

Sam Dodson

Black Mountain Press (2021)

Wild Kingdom: Poems

Jehanne Dubrow

Louisiana State University Press (2021)

100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer

Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs

Biblioasis Press (2021)

Love in Seven Easy Steps

Gayathri Prabhu

Magic Mongrel Publishers (2021)

Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel

emily m. danforth

William Morrow (2020)

Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World

Jennifer Sinor

University of Nebraska Press (2020)

A Mouthful of Home

Akashic Books (2020)

Aria Viscera

April Gloaming (2020)

The Poison Flood

Jordan Farmer

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2020)

Forever War

Kate Gaskin

YesYes Books (2020)

All My Mother's Lovers: A Novel

Dutton (2020)

In Our Other Lives: A Novel

Theodore Wheeler

Little A (2020)

Bone Chalk

Jim Reese

Stephen F. Austin University Press (2020)

The Sacrifice of Darkness

Roxane Gay

Archaia (2020)

What Magick May Not Alter

JC Reilly

Madville Publishing (2020)

The World Out There

John Duncan Talbird

Madville Publishing (2020)

Staten Island Stories

Johns Hopkins University Press (2019)

The Banks

Roxane Gay

TKO Studios (2019)

Opera on TV

James Lowell Brunton

The Operating System Press (2019)

All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer

Karen Babine

Milkweed Editions (2019)

throughsmoke: an essay in notes

Jehanne Dubrow

New River Press (2019)

Lost on Purpose

Iris Press (2019)

Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear

Heidi LM Jacobs

NeWest Press (2019)

Teeth Never Sleep: Poems

Ángel Garcia

University of Arkansas Press (2018)

Hillary, Made Up

Marianne Kunkel

Stephen F. Austin University Press (2018)

Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

The Ohio State University Press (2018)

Mass for Shut-Ins

Todd Robinson

The Backwaters Press (2018)

You or a Loved One

Gabriel Houck

Orison Books (2018)

Red and Vast

Dancing Girl Press (2018)

Sweet and Low: Stories

Nick White

Penguin (2018)

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

Harper Perennial (2018)

Inside the Flower Room

Saddiq Dzukogi

Akashic Books (2018)

No Home in This Land: New-Generation African Poets: Tano

Rasaq Malik

Akashic Books (2018)

Flight

Chaun Ballard

Tupelo Press (2018)

Difficult Women

Roxane Gay

Grove Press (2018)

Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem

Porkbelly Press (2017)

The Man On High: Essays on Skateboarding, Hip-hop, Poetry and The Notorious B.I.G.

Jeff Alessandrelli

Eyewear Publishing (2017)

The New Nudity

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Saturnalia Books (2017)

Telling My Father

James Crews

Southeast Missouri State University Press (2017)

The Afterlife of Holly Chase

Cynthia Hand

HarperTeen (2017)

Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life

Lee Martin

University of Nebraska Press (2017)

The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

James Han Mattson

Little A (2017)

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The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid

John McNally

Elephant Rock Books (2017)

Beating the Bounds: Poems

Liz Ahl

Hobblebush Books (2017)

Rubbing Elbows

DeMisty D. Bellinger

Finishing Line Press (2017)

We Are All Shipwrecks

Kelly Grey Carlisle

Sourcebooks (2017)

Cosmovore

Aqueduct Press (2017)

Hands that Break and Scar

Sarah A. Chavez

Sundress Publications (2017)

The Boat Runner

Devin Murphy

Harper Perennial (2017)

Mammother

Zachary Schomburg

Featherproof Books (2017)

Kings of Broken Things

Theodore Wheeler

Little A (2017)

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

HarperCollins (2017)

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

SJ Sindu

Soho Press (2017)

How to Survive a Summer

Nick White

Blue Rider Press (2017)

Through a Certain Forest

Laura Madeline Wiseman

BlazeVOX (2017)

The Spoils: Stories

Casey Pycior

Switchgrass Books / Northern Illinois University Press (2017)

As I Stand Living

Christopher Higgs

Civil Coping Mechanisms (2017)

Three Days with the Long Moon

Adrian Koesters

BrickHouse Books (2017)

The Widow's Guide to Edible Mushrooms

Chauna Craig

Press 53 (2017)

Dots & Dashes: Poems

Jehanne Dubrow

Southern Illinois University Press (2017)

Leaves Surface Like Skin

Michelle Menting

Terrapin Books (2017)

Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems

Constance Merritt

Headmistress Press (2017)

Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Finishing Line Press (2017)

Incognito

Biljana Obradovic

Wordtech Communications LLC (2017)

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If I Had to Tell It Again: A Memoir

Gayathri Prabhu

HarperCollins (2017)

Bread: A Memoir of Hunger

University of Missouri Press (2016)

Fountain and Furnace

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Tupelo Press (2016)

House of the Night Watch

Tara Ballard

New Rivers Press (2016)

Black Panther: World of Wakanda

Roxane Gay

Marvel (2016)

Bad Faith

Theodore Wheeler

Queen's Ferry Press (2016)

The Arranged Marriage: Poems

Jehanne Dubrow

University of New Mexico Press (2015)

Alexia

Jessica Poli

Sixth Finch (2015)

The Future Is a Faint Song

James (Jaime) Brunton & Russell Evatt

Dream Horse Press (2014)

All Day, Talking

Sarah A. Chavez

dancing girl press (2014)

Bad Feminist: Essays

Roxane Gay

HarperCollins (2014)

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Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging

Joshua Doležal

University of Iowa Press (2014)

An Untamed State

Roxane Gay

Grove Press (2014)

On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year

Karen Head, Blake Leland, JC Reilly, and Robert E. Wood

Poetry Atlanta Press (2014)

The Astronaut Checks His Watch

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Finishing Line Press (2014)

Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

dancing girl press (2014)

It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories

University of Nebraska Press (2013)

Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament

Evelyn I. Funda

University of Nebraska Press (2013)

Safe House

Ava Winter

Thrush Press (2013)

Afterimage

Benjamin Vogt

Stephen F. Austin University Press (2013)

Lullaby (with Exit Sign)

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Saturnalia Books (2013)

The Egg Mistress

Jessica Poli

Gold Line Press (2013)

The Runaway Note

Tyrone Jaeger

Shakespeare and Company, Toad Suck (2012)

What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte

University of Missouri Press (2012)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

emily m. danforth

Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins (2012)

The Laughing Game

Marianne Kunkel

Finishing Line Press (2012)

The Frame Called Ruin

Hadara Bar-Nadav

New Issues (2012)

Red Army Red: Poems

Jehanne Dubrow

Northwestern University Press (2012)

Ayiti

Roxane Gay

Artistically Declined Press / Grove Press (2011)

Stateside: Poems

Jehanne Dubrow

Northwestern University Press (2010)

Two Rooms

Constance Merritt

Louisiana State University Press (2009)

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Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz: A Quinceañera Club Novel

Belinda Acosta

Grand Central Publishing (2009)

Sassing

WordTech Editions (2009)

My Paris Year

All Nations Press (2009)

Interior Places

Bison Books (2008)

Blessings and Inclemencies

Constance Merritt

Louisiana State University Press (2007)

A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Margie/Intuit House (2007)

The Bright Forever

Lee Martin

Broadway (2006)

The Usual Mistakes

University of Nebraska Press (2005)

The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays

Bison Books (2004)

Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems

All Nations Press (2003)

A Protocol for Touch

Constance Merritt

University of North Texas Press (2000)

Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape

University of Iowa Press (1998)

Field of Vision

University of Iowa Press (1996)