Faculty & Alumni Books by Author
- Liz Ahl
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- Beating the Bounds. Hobblebush Books 2017
- Eve Alexandra
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- The Drowned Girl. Kent State Press 2003. Winner of the 2002 Wick Poetry Prize
- Rane Arroyo
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- The Sky’s Weight. Turning Point Press 2009
- The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press 2008
- Cameron Barnett
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- The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water. Autumn House Press 2017. Winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Prize
- Joseph Bathanti
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- The High Heart. Eastern Washington University Press 2007
- They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists (1971-1995). North Carolina Arts Council 2007
- Coventry. Novello Festival Press 2006
- Anson County. Parkway Publishers 2005
- East Liberty. Banks Channel Books 2001
- This Metal. St. Andrews Press 1996. Nominated for The National Book Award
- Peter Beagle
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- Sweet Lightning. Tachyon 2009
- We Never Talk About My Brother. Tachyon 2008
- The Line Between. Tachyon 2006
- A Dance for Emilia. Roc 2000
- Tamsin. Roc 1999
- The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances. Tachyon 1997
- Giant Bones. Roc 1997
- The Unicorn Sonata. Turner 1996
- In the Presence of Elephants. Capra Press 1995
- The Inkeeper's Song. Roc 1993
- The Folk of the Air. Ballantine Books/Del Rey 1986
- The Garden of Early Delights. Nonfiction 1982
- The Lady and Her Tiger. Dutton 1976
- The California Feeling. Doubleday 1969
- The Last Unicorn. Viking 1968
- I See By My Outfit. Viking 1965
- A Fine and Private Place. Viking 196
- Jan Beatty
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- Jackknife. University of Pittsburgh Press 2017
- The Switching/Yard. University of Pittsburgh Press 2013
- Red Sugar. University of Pittsburgh Press 2008
- Boneshaker. University of Pittsburgh Press 2002
- Mad River. University of Pittsburgh Press 1994 Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- Craig Bernier
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- Your Life Idyllic: Stories. Black Lawrence 2014. St. Lawrence Book Award
- CM Burroughs
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- The Vital System. Tupelo Press 2012
- Karen Rose Cercone
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- Coal Bones. Berkeley 1999
- Blood Tracks. Berkeley 1998
- Steel Ashes. Berkeley 1997
- Michael Chabon
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- Moonglow. Harper 2016. Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction; ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction; Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal; Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year; New York Times Notable Book of the Year
- Telegraph Avenue: A Novel. Harper 2012
- Maps and Legends. McSweeney’s 2008
- Gentlemen of the Road. Del Rey 2007
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union: A Novel. HarperCollins 2007
- The Final Solution. The Fourth Estate 2004. Winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award
- Summerland. Miramax/Hyperion 2002. Winner of the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Picador 2001. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001
- Werewolves in Their Youth. Picador 2000
- Wonder Boys. Villard 1995
- A Model World and Other Stories. William Morrow & Co. 1991
- Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Harper Perenial 1989
- Kazumi Chin
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- Having a Coke with Godzilla. Sibling Rivalry Press 2017
- Robin Clarke
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- Lines the Quarry. Omnidawn 2013
- Garnett Kilberg Cohen
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- Lost Women, Banished Souls. University of Missouri Press 1996
- Kristofer Collins
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- The Liturgy of Streets. Six Gallery Press 2009
- King Everything. Six Gallery Press 2007
- Katie Coyle
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- Vivian Apple At the End Of the World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
- Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
- Angie Cruz
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- Dominicana. Flatiron Books 2019
- Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel. Simon & Schuster 2005
- Soledad. Simon & Schuster 2001
- Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
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- Paper Pavilion. White Pine Press 2007
- Patricia Dobler
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- Collected Poems. Autumn House Press 2005
- UXB. Mill Hunk Books 1991
- Gwen Ebert
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- The Little Bat Trainer. University Press of New England 2002. Winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry.
- Barbara Edelman
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- Dream of the Gone-From City. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017
- Kelly Forsythe
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- Perennial. Coffee House Press 2018
- Kathleen George
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- A Measure of Blood. Open Road 2014
- Afterimage. St. Martin's 2007
- Fallen. Dell 2004
- Taken. Delacorte 2001
- The Man in the Buick. BKMK Press 1999
- Lester Goran
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- Outlaws of the Purple Cow, and Other Stories. Kent State University Press 1999
- Bing Crosby’s Last Song. Picador 1998
- She Loved Me Once, and Other Stories. Kent State University Press 1997
- Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories. Kent State University Press 1996
- The Bright Streets of Surfside: the Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer. Kent State University Press 1994
- Mrs. Beautiful. New Horizons Press 1985
- The Keeper of Secrets. McCall 1971
- The Demon in the Sun Parlor. New American Library 1968
- The Stranger in the Snow. New American Library 1966
- The Candy Butcher’s Farewell. McGraw-Hill 1964
- Maria Light. Houghton Mifflin 1962
- The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue. Houghton Mifflin 1961
- Miriam Bird Greenburg
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- In the Volcano's Mouth. University of Pittsburgh Press 2016. Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
- Dave Griffith
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- A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. Soft Skull Press 2006
- Piotr Gwiazda
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- Aspects of Strangers. Moria Books 2015
- Messages. Pond Road Press 2012
- Gargarin Street. Washington Writers' Publishing House 2006
- Kathryn Miller Haines
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- The Winter of Her Discontent. Harper 2008
- The War Against Miss Winter. Harper 2007
- J.C. Hallman
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- In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise. St. Martin’s 2010
- The Hospital for Bad Poets. Milkweed Editions 2009
- The Devil is a Gentleman. Random House 2006
- The Chess Artist. St. Martin’s Griffin 2004
- Linda Lee Harper
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- Kiss Kiss. Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2007. Winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition
- Toward Desire. Word Works 1996. Winner of the 1995 Washington Prize for Poetry
- Lizzie Harris
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- Stop Wanting. Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2014
- Bob Hartley
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- North and Central. Tortoise Books 2017
- Following Tommy. Červená Barva Press 2012
- Yona Harvey
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- You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love. Four Way Books 2020
- Hemming the Water. Four Way Books 2013
- Terrance Hayes
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- How to Be Drawn. Penguin Poets 2015. NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry; Nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry
- Tonya Cherie Hegamin
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- M+O 4EVR. Houghton Mifflin 2008
- Aubrey Hirsch
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- Why We Never Talk About Sugar. Braddock Avenue Books 2012
- Lori Jakiela
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- Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life. Bottom Dog Press 2017
- Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe. Atticus Books 2015
- Miss New York Has Everything. Warner Books 2006
- Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith
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- Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters. Loyola Press 2012
- Geeta Kothari
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- I Brake for Moose and Other Stories. Braddock Avenue Books 2017
- ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Quill 1994
- Mark Kramer
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- Dispossessed: Life in Our World’s Urban Slums . Orbis Books 2006
- Nancy Krygowski
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- Velocity. University of Pittsburgh Press 2007. Winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- Jeanne Marie Laskas
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- To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope. Random House 2018
- Concussion. Random House 2015
- Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work. Putnam 2012
- Growing Girls. Bantam Dell 2006
- The Exact Same Moon. Bantam Dell 2003
- Fifty Acres and a Poodle. Bantam Dell 2000
- Gregory Lawless
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- Far Away. Red Mountain Press 2015
- I Thought I Was New Here. BlazeVOX 2009
- Li-Young Lee
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- Behind My Eyes. Norton 2008
- Book of My Nights. BOA Editions Ltd. 2001. Winner of the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award
- The Winged Seed: A Remembrance. Simon and Schuster 1995. Recipient of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
- The City in Which I Love You. BOA Editions Ltd. 1990. 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection
- Rose. 1986. Winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award
- Lawrence Lenhardt
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- The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage. Outpost19 2016
- Anne Leonard
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- Moth and Spark. Viking 2014
- Michelle Lin
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- A House Made of Water. Sibling Rivalry Pres 2017
- Karin Lin-Greenberg
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- Faulty Predictions. University of Georgia Press 2014. 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Thomas Lipinski
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- Death in the Steel City. Avon 2000
- Steel City Confessions. Twilight 1999
- A Picture of Her Tombstone. St. Martin's 1996
- The Fall Down Artist. St. Martin's 1994
- William Lychack
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- Cargill Falls. Braddock Avenue Books 2020
- The Architect of Flowers. Mariner Books 2011
- The Wasp Eater. Mariner Books 2005
- Sam MacDonald
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- The Urban Hermit: A Memoir. St. Martin's 2008
- The Agony of an American Wilderness. Rowman & Littlefield 2005
- Sangeeta Mall
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- Flight of the Flamingo. Westland 2013
- Dawn Lundy Martin
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- GOOD STOCK, STRANGE BLOOD. Coffee House Press 2017
- Life in a Box is a Pretty Life. Nightboat Books 2014
- Discipline. Nightboat 2011 selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize
- A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering. University of Georgia Press. 2007 winner of the Cave Canem Prize
- Jennifer Matesa
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- Sex In Recovery: A Meeting Between the Covers. Hazelden Publishing 2016
- The Recovering Body: Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober. Hazelden Publishing 2014
- Knowing Stephanie. University of Pittsburgh Press 2003
- Navel-Gazing: The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making. Three Rivers Press 2001
- Jane McCafferty
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- Thank You for the Music. Tandem Library 2004
- Mia McKenzie
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- The Summer We Got Free. Black Girl Dangerous Press 2012
- Sarah Menkedick
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- Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm. Pantheon 2017
- Michael Meyer
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- The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up. Bloomsbury USA 2017
- In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China. Bloomsbury Press 2015
- The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. Walker & Company 2008
- Dinty Moore
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- Dear Mr. Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Love, Life, and Cannibals. Random House 2015
- The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life. Wisdom Publications 201
- 2Between Panic and Desire. University of Nebraska Press 2008
- Stephen Murabito
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- Lowering the Body. Star Cloud Press 2008 Communion of Asiago. Star Cloud Press 2006
- The Oswego Fugues. Star Cloud Press 2005
- Micki Myers
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- Trigger Finger. Pearl Editions 2003. Winner of the Pearl Prize for Poetry, judged by Jim Daniels
- Kristin Naca
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- Bird Eating Bird. Harper Collins 2009. Winner of the National Poetry Series Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Rachel Nagelberg
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- The Fifth Wall. Black Sparrow Press 2017
- Diana Khoi Nguyen
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- Ghost Of. Omnidawn 2018
- Ron Nyswaner
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- Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir. Advocate Books 2004
- Jeff Oaks
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- Little What. Lily Poetry Review 2019
- Peter Oresick
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- Warhol-O-Rama!. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
- Definitions: Poems. West End Press 1990
- Dennis Palumbo
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- From Crime to Crime. Tallfellow Press 2008
- Writing From the Inside Out. John Wiley & Sons 2000 City Wars. Bantam 1973
- Salvatore Pane
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- Last Call in the City of Bridges. Braddock Avenue Books 2012
- Elena Passarello
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- Animals Strike Curious Poses. Sarabande Books 2017
- Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays. Sarabande Books 2012
- Craig Paulenich
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- Drift of the Hunt. Nobodaddies Press 2006
- Lisa Phillips
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- Public Radio: Behind the Voices. CDS Books/Perseus 2006
- Adriana Ramirez
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- The Violence. Scribner 2018
- Nancy Reddy
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- Double Jinx. Milkweed Editions 2015
- Shannon Reed
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- Why Did I Get a B?: And Other Mysteries We're Discussing in the Faculty Lounge. Atria Books 2020
- John Repp
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- Gratitude. Cherry Grove 2005
- The Fertile Crescent. Cherry Grove 2004. Winner of the 2003 Lyre Prize
- Thirst Like This. University of Missouri Press 1990 Winner of the Devins Award
- Irina Reyn
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- Mother Country. Thomas Dunn Books 2019
- What Happened to Anna K. Touchstone 2008
- Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2007
- Priscilla Rodd
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- Surviving Mae West. Vandalia Press 2006
- Leslie Rubinkowski
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- Impersonating Elvis. Faber & Faber 1997
- Anjali Sachdeva
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- All the Names They Used for God. Penguin Random House 2018
- Mike Scalise
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- The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir. Sarabande 2017
- Paul Siegell
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- Poemergency Room. Otoliths Books 2008
- Scott Silsbe
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- Muskrat Friday Dinner. White Gorilla Press 2017
- Unattended Fire. Six Gallery Press 2012
- Rebecca Skloot
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- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown/Random House 2010
- Aaron Smith
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- Blue on Blue Ground. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2005. Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- Brandon Som
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- The Tribute Horse. Nightboat Books 2015. Winner of Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Ed Steck
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- The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation. Ugly Duckling Presse 2013
- Gerald Stern
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- Save the Last Dance. Norton 2008
- Everything Is Burning. Norton 2005
- American Sonnets. Norton 2002
- Last Blue: Poems. Norton 2000
- This Time: New and Selected Poems. Norton 1998. Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Poetry
- Odd Mercy. Norton 1995
- Bread Without Sugar. Norton. 1992 Winner of the Patterson Poetry Prize
- Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems. HarperCollins 1990
- Robert Stevens
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- Tiny Heroes, Tiny Villains. Sarabande Books 2019
- Doug Swanson
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- Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers. Viking 2020
- John Temple
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- American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic. Lyons Press 2015
- Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office. University Press of Mississippi 2005
- Robert L. Tonsetic
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- Days of Valor: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War. Casemate 2007
- Warriors: An Infantryman’s Memoir of Vietnam. Random House 2004
- Christopher Torockio
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- The Truth at Daybreak. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
- Floating Holidays. Black Lawrence Press 2007
- Presence. Saint Andrews Press 1999
- Peter Trachtenberg
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- Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press 2013
- The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning. Little, Brown and Company 2008
- Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown 1997
- Sandy Tseng
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- Sediment. Four Way Books 2009. Winner of the The Nation/Discovery Award
- Judith Vollmer
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- The Apollonia Poems. University of Wisconsin Press 2017
- Reactor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2004
- The Door Open to the Fire. Cleveland State University Press 1998
- Black Butterfly. Center for the Book Arts 1997
- Level Green. University of Wisconsin Press 1990. Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry
- Julie Marie Wade
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- Catechism: A Love Story. Noctuary Press 2016
- Six. Red Hen Press 2016
- When I Was Straight. A Midsummer Night's Press 2014
- Lynn Wagner
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- No Blues This Raucous Song. Slapering Hol Press 2009
- Stacey Waite
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- Teaching Queer. University of Pittsburgh Press 2017
- Butch Geography. Tupelo Press 2014
- Carole Waterhouse
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- The Paradise Ranch. PublishAmerica 2002
- Without Wings. PublishAmerica 2001
- Kellie Wells
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- Fat Girl, Terrestrial. Fiction Collective 2 2012
- Skin. University of Nebraska Press 2006
- Compression Scars. University of Georgia Press 2002. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award; Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers’ Award
- Sarah Wexler
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- Awful First Dates: Hysterical, True, and Heartbreakingly Bad. Sourcebooks Casablanca 2012
- Living Large. St. Martin's 2010
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