Faculty and Alumni Books

Faculty & Alumni Books by Author

Liz Ahl

• Beating the Bounds. Hobblebush Books 2017

Eve Alexandra

• The Drowned Girl. Kent State Press 2003. Winner of the 2002 Wick Poetry Prize

Rane Arroyo

• The Sky’s Weight. Turning Point Press 2009
• The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press 2008

Cameron Barnett

• The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water. Autumn House Press 2017. Winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Prize

Joseph Bathanti

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Your Life Idyllic: Stories. Black Lawrence 2014. St. Lawrence Book Award

CM Burroughs

• The Vital System. Tupelo Press 2012

Karen Rose Cercone

• Coal Bones. Berkeley 1999
• Blood Tracks. Berkeley 1998
• Steel Ashes. Berkeley 1997

Michael Chabon

• 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

• Having a Coke with Godzilla. Sibling Rivalry Press 2017

Robin Clarke

• Lines the Quarry. Omnidawn 2013

Garnett Kilberg Cohen

• Lost Women, Banished Souls. University of Missouri Press 1996

Kristofer Collins

• The Liturgy of Streets. Six Gallery Press 2009
• King Everything. Six Gallery Press 2007

Katie Coyle

• Vivian Apple At the End Of the World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
• Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

Angie Cruz

• Dominicana. Flatiron Books 2019
• Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel. Simon & Schuster 2005
• Soledad. Simon & Schuster 2001

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

• Paper Pavilion. White Pine Press 2007

Patricia Dobler

• Collected Poems. Autumn House Press 2005
• UXB. Mill Hunk Books 1991

Gwen Ebert

• The Little Bat Trainer. University Press of New England 2002. Winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry.

Barbara Edelman

• Dream of the Gone-From City. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017

Kelly Forsythe

• Perennial. Coffee House Press 2018

Kathleen George

• 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

• 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

• In the Volcano's Mouth. University of Pittsburgh Press 2016. Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize

Dave Griffith

• A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. Soft Skull Press 2006

Piotr Gwiazda

• Aspects of Strangers. Moria Books 2015
• Messages. Pond Road Press 2012
• Gargarin Street. Washington Writers' Publishing House 2006

Kathryn Miller Haines

• The Winter of Her Discontent. Harper 2008
• The War Against Miss Winter. Harper 2007

J.C. Hallman

• 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

• 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

• Stop Wanting. Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2014

Bob Hartley

• North and Central. Tortoise Books 2017
• Following Tommy. Červená Barva Press 2012

Yona Harvey

• You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love. Four Way Books 2020
• Hemming the Water. Four Way Books 2013

Terrance Hayes

• 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

• M+O 4EVR. Houghton Mifflin 2008

Aubrey Hirsch

• Why We Never Talk About Sugar. Braddock Avenue Books 2012

Lori Jakiela

• 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

• Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters. Loyola Press 2012

Geeta Kothari

• 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

• Dispossessed: Life in Our World’s Urban Slums . Orbis Books 2006

Nancy Krygowski

• Velocity. University of Pittsburgh Press 2007. Winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Jeanne Marie Laskas

• 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

• Far Away. Red Mountain Press 2015
• I Thought I Was New Here. BlazeVOX 2009

Li-Young Lee

• 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

• The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage. Outpost19 2016

Anne Leonard

• Moth and Spark. Viking 2014

Michelle Lin

• A House Made of Water. Sibling Rivalry Pres 2017

Karin Lin-Greenberg

• Faulty Predictions. University of Georgia Press 2014. 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Thomas Lipinski

• 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

• Cargill Falls. Braddock Avenue Books 2020
• The Architect of Flowers. Mariner Books 2011
• The Wasp Eater. Mariner Books 2005

Sam MacDonald

• The Urban Hermit: A Memoir. St. Martin's 2008
• The Agony of an American Wilderness. Rowman & Littlefield 2005

Sangeeta Mall

• Flight of the Flamingo. Westland 2013

Dawn Lundy Martin

• 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

• 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

• Thank You for the Music. Tandem Library 2004

Mia McKenzie

• The Summer We Got Free. Black Girl Dangerous Press 2012

Sarah Menkedick

• Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm. Pantheon 2017

Michael Meyer

• 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

• 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

• Lowering the Body. Star Cloud Press 2008 Communion of Asiago. Star Cloud Press 2006
• The Oswego Fugues. Star Cloud Press 2005

Micki Myers

• Trigger Finger. Pearl Editions 2003. Winner of the Pearl Prize for Poetry, judged by Jim Daniels

Kristin Naca

• Bird Eating Bird. Harper Collins 2009. Winner of the National Poetry Series Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa

Rachel Nagelberg

• The Fifth Wall. Black Sparrow Press 2017

Diana Khoi Nguyen

• Ghost Of. Omnidawn 2018

Ron Nyswaner

• Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir. Advocate Books 2004

Jeff Oaks

• Little What. Lily Poetry Review 2019

Peter Oresick

• Warhol-O-Rama!. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
• Definitions: Poems. West End Press 1990

Dennis Palumbo

• From Crime to Crime. Tallfellow Press 2008
• Writing From the Inside Out. John Wiley & Sons 2000 City Wars. Bantam 1973

Salvatore Pane

• Last Call in the City of Bridges. Braddock Avenue Books 2012

Elena Passarello

• Animals Strike Curious Poses. Sarabande Books 2017
• Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays. Sarabande Books 2012

Craig Paulenich

• Drift of the Hunt. Nobodaddies Press 2006

Lisa Phillips

• Public Radio: Behind the Voices. CDS Books/Perseus 2006

Adriana Ramirez

• The Violence. Scribner 2018

Nancy Reddy

• Double Jinx. Milkweed Editions 2015

Shannon Reed

• Why Did I Get a B?: And Other Mysteries We're Discussing in the Faculty Lounge. Atria Books 2020

John Repp

• 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

• 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

• Surviving Mae West. Vandalia Press 2006

Leslie Rubinkowski

• Impersonating Elvis. Faber & Faber 1997

Anjali Sachdeva

• All the Names They Used for God. Penguin Random House 2018

Mike Scalise

• The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir. Sarabande 2017

Paul Siegell

• Poemergency Room. Otoliths Books 2008

Scott Silsbe

• Muskrat Friday Dinner. White Gorilla Press 2017
• Unattended Fire. Six Gallery Press 2012

Rebecca Skloot

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown/Random House 2010

Aaron Smith

• Blue on Blue Ground. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2005. Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Brandon Som

• The Tribute Horse. Nightboat Books 2015. Winner of Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Ed Steck

• The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation. Ugly Duckling Presse 2013

Gerald Stern

• 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

• Tiny Heroes, Tiny Villains. Sarabande Books 2019

Doug Swanson

• Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers. Viking 2020

John Temple

• 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

• 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

• The Truth at Daybreak. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
• Floating Holidays. Black Lawrence Press 2007
• Presence. Saint Andrews Press 1999

Peter Trachtenberg

• 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

• Sediment. Four Way Books 2009. Winner of the The Nation/Discovery Award

Judith Vollmer

• 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

• Catechism: A Love Story. Noctuary Press 2016
• Six. Red Hen Press 2016
• When I Was Straight. A Midsummer Night's Press 2014

Lynn Wagner

• No Blues This Raucous Song. Slapering Hol Press 2009

Stacey Waite

• Teaching Queer. University of Pittsburgh Press 2017
• Butch Geography. Tupelo Press 2014

Carole Waterhouse

• The Paradise Ranch. PublishAmerica 2002
• Without Wings. PublishAmerica 2001

Kellie Wells

• 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

• Awful First Dates: Hysterical, True, and Heartbreakingly Bad. Sourcebooks Casablanca 2012
• Living Large. St. Martin's 2010

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