Anchorage, The: Poems Mark Wunderlich F University of Massachusetts Press, 1999 Animal Soul Mary Carroll-Hackett ’03 Kattywompus Press, 2013 Animals Alice Mattison F Alice James Books, 1980 Apple Speaks, The: Poems Rebecca Lachman ’11 DreamSeeker Books, 2012 Attention Lesson, The PF Potvin ’01 Lulu Press, Inc., 2006
Acquainted with the Night Lynne Sharon Schwartz F HarperCollins, 1984 Addled JoeAnn Hart ’00 Little, Brown and Company, 2007
MASTERING THE FINE ART OF WRITING Bennington College’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty are all writers who have distinguished themselves in their teaching as well as on the page. Their work has been given almost every literary honor—the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Medal of Arts, the Rae Award, the PEN Award, the Walt Whitman Award, the O. Henry Prize, the Whiting
Ever Blake Butler ’06 Calamari Press, 2009
Miss Fuller April Bernard F Steerforth Press, 2012
Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6 Susan Jackson Rodgers ’03 Press 53, 2012
Mud Flap Girl’s XX Guide to Facial Profiling Nicole Hardy ’04 Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2006
Expiration Date Sherril Jaffe ’01 The Permanent Press, 2011
Alena Rachel Pastan F Riverhead Books, 2014
Face Aimee E. Liu ’06 Warner Books, 1994
Ambassador of the Dead Askold Melnyczuk F Counterpoint Press, 2001
Faces Reappear, The Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1988
An Underachiever’s Diary Benjamin Anastas F Dial Press Trade Paperback, reprint 2009
Fatigue Artist, The Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Scribner, 1995
Ana Imagined Perrin Ireland ’96 Graywolf Press, 2000 April & Oliver: A Novel Therese Callahan James ’96 Grand Central Publishing, 2009 Archivist, The Martha Cooley F Back Bay Books, 1999 Backward-Facing Man Don Silver ’99 HarperCollins, 2005 Balancing Acts Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Penguin Books, 1981 Beautiful Children: A Novel Charles Bock ’97 Random House, 2008 Birds of a Lesser Paradise Megan Mayhew Bergman ’10 Scribner, 2012 Blind Angel Askold Melnyczuk F Pressed Wafer, 2002 Book Borrower, The Alice Mattison F William Morrow and Company, 1999
Ferris Beach Jill McCorkle F Algonquin Books, 1990 Flash House Aimee E. Liu ’06 Warner Books, 2003 Float JoeAnn Hart ’00 Ashland Creek Press, 2013 Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life & Love in Paris Vanina Marsot ’04 HarperCollins, 2009 Four Fingers of Death, The Rick Moody WIR Little, Brown and Company, 2010 Garden State: A Novel Rick Moody WIR Little, Brown and Company, 1997 Girl in the Arena Lise Haines ’02 Bloomsbury USA, 2009 Going Away Shoes Jill McCorkle F Algonquin Books, 2009 Gravedigger, The Peter Grandbois ’03 Chronicle Books, 2006
Bracelet, The Betsy Johnson-Miller ’02 North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2009
Hermaphrodite, The: An Hallucinated Memoir Daniel Grandbois ’04 Green Integer, 2010
Breakable You Brian Morton F Harcourt, 2006
Hilda and Pearl Alice Mattison F William Morrow and Company, 1995
Calligrapher’s Daughter, The Eugenia Kim ’01 Henry Holt and Company, 2009
News from Spain, The: 7 Variations on a Love Story Joan Wickersham F Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn Alice Mattison F Harper Perennial, 2008 On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening Rick Moody WIR Back Bay Books, 2012
Preston Falls David Gates F Vintage Books, 1999
Push Comes to Shove Wesley Brown F Concord Free Press, 2009
We’re So Famous Jaime Clarke ’97 Bloomsbury, 2001
Reasons to Live Amy Hempel F Harper Perennial, 1995
What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel Irina Reyn ’06 Touchstone, 2008
Referred Pain and Other Stories Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Counterpoint Press, 2004 Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas Rick Moody WIR Little, Brown and Company, 2007 Rough Strife Lynne Sharon Schwartz F HarperCollins, 1980 Scars Make Your Body More Interesting & Other Stories Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1996 Secret of Lost Things, The Sheridan Hay ’02 Doubleday, 2007
faculty have always been at the
I Want to Show You More Jamie Quatro ’09 Grove Press, 2013
Show Me Good Land Shonna Milliken Humphrey ’04 Down East Books, 2011
core of Bennington’s MFA (W)
Chatter: A Novel Perrin Ireland ’96 Algonquin Books, 2007
Ice Storm, The Rick Moody WIR Little, Brown and Company, 1994
Slipping the Moorings Susan McCallum-Smith ’08 Entasis Press, 2008
in a 1:5 ratio, guiding students to reach the next level with their craft. Twenty years after the program was founded, scores of alumni now join our faculty bringing acclaimed work to the world, to the shelves of libraries and bookstores everywhere. And when it comes to writing, at Bennington, the work speaks for itself. This is some of it.
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Cheer Leader, The Jill McCorkle F Algonquin Books, 1984 Child Out of Alcatraz, A Tara Ison ’99 Faber & Faber, Inc., 1997 Cloud Mountain Aimee E. Liu ’06 Warner Books, 1997 Confessions from a Dark Wood Robert Raymond ’05 Sator Press, 2012 Conscience, Consequence: Reflections on Father Daniel Berrigan Askold Melnyczuk F, editor Arrowsmith Press, 2006 Corpus Christi: Stories Bret Anthony Johnston F Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Creatures of Habit: Stories Jill McCorkle F Shannon Ravenel Books, 2001 Cult of Lily Jan Johnson ’07 Bellowing Ark Press, 2010 Darktown Strutters Wesley Brown F, co-authored with W.T. Lhamon, Jr. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000 Daughter: A Novel Asha Bandele ’99 Scribner, 2003 Disturbances in the Field Lynne Sharon Schwartz F HarperCollins, 1983 Diviners, The Rick Moody WIR Back Bay Books, 2007 Dog of the Marriage, The Amy Hempel F Scribner, 2005
F=faculty WIR=writer in residence
Dreaming Man, Face Down Mark Conway ’98 Dream Horse Press, 2010 Edge of the World, The Gail Vida Hamburg ’04 Mirare Press, 2007 Eight Notes from the Blue Angel Marjana Savka translated by Askold Melnyczuk F Arrowsmith Press, 2007
Small Acts of Sex and Electricity Lise Haines ’02 Unbridled Books, 2006
In Case We’re Separated: Connected Stories Alice Mattison F William Morrow and Company, 2005
Smedley’s Secret Guide to World Literature, Part I, by Jonathan Levy Wainwright the IV, age 15 Askold Melnyczuk F Anomalous Press, 2013
In My Sister’s Country Lise Haines ’02 BlueHen Books, 2002
Snow Hunters Paul Yoon F Simon & Schuster, 2013
In Search of Wings Lost Donald J. Berk ’02 White Quill, 2009
Starting Out in the Evening Brian Morton F Crown Publishers, 1998
In the Family Way Lynne Sharon Schwartz F William Morrow and Company, 1999
Suicide Index, The: Putting My Father’s Death in Order Joan Wickersham F Mariner Books, 2009
Interior Designs Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1996
Swimming in the Volcano Bob Shacochis WIR Scribner, 1993
J. A. P. Chronicles, The Isabel Rose ’97 Doubleday, 2005
Tending to Virginia Jill McCorkle F Shannon Ravenel Books, 1987
Jernigan: A Novel David Gates F Vintage Books, 1992
Thirty-Three Swoons Martha Cooley F Back Bay Books, 2006
July 7th Jill McCorkle F Algonquin Books, 1984
This Flower Only Blooms Every Hundred Years Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1978
Lady of the Snakes Rachel Pastan F Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008 Last Last Chance Fiona Maazel ’02 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Leaving Brooklyn: A Novel Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989 Leaving Rock Harbor Rebecca Chace ’08 Scribner, 2010 Life After Life Jill McCorkle F Shannon Ravenel Books, 2013 List, The: A Novel Tara Ison ’99 Scribner, 2007 Littlest Hitler, The Ryan Boudinot ’99 Counterpoint Press, 2006 Melting Pot, The Lynne Sharon Schwartz F HarperCollins, 1987 Member of the Family, A Susan Scarf Merrell ’09 HarperCollins, 2000
Vernon Downs Jaime Clarke ’97 Roundabout Press, 2014
Purple America Rick Moody WIR Back Bay Books, 1998
Carolina Moon Jill McCorkle F Algonquin Books, 1996
next generation of literary giants
Unexamined Wife, The Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1983
Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman, The Alice Mattison F HarperCollins, 2004
Shirley: A Novel Susan Scarf Merrell ’09 Blue Rider/Penguin, 2014
If I’d Known You Were Coming Kate Milliken ’06 University of Iowa Press, 2013
Two-Part Inventions Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Counterpoint Press, 2012
Unlucky Lucky Days Daniel Grandbois ’04 BOA Editions, 2008
House Tours Sherril Jaffe ’01 Black Sparrow Press, 1991
program—closely mentoring the
Tumble Home Amy Hempel F Scribner, 1998
Pirate Jenny April Bernard F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990
Capture the Flag Rebecca Chace ’08 Simon & Schuster, 1999
Chautauqua Summer: Adventures of a LateTwentieth-Century Vaudevillian Rebecca Chace ’08 Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993
Trouble With You Is, The Susan Jackson Rodgers ’03 Mid-List Press, 2004
Unicorn Is Born, A Trinie Dalton ’04 Harry N. Abrams, 2007
Shepard, Wolf Megan Mayhew Bergman ’10 Scribner, 2014
Book Prize. Our distinguished
Tragic Magic Wesley Brown F Random House, 1978
Once the Shore: Stories Paul Yoon F Sarabande Books, 2009
House of Widows, The Askold Melnyczuk F Graywolf Press, 2008
Writer’s Award, and the LA Times
To Begin Again Jennifer Knox ’10 All Things That Matter Press, 2011
This Side of Married Rachel Pastan F Viking Penguin, 2004
What Is Told Askold Melnyczuk F Faber and Faber, 1994 What Is Told Askold Melnyczuk F PFP Publishing, reprint 2011 When Love Was Clean Underwear Susan Barr-Toman ’05 New Rivers Press, 2009 When We Argued All Night Alice Mattison F Harper Perennial, 2012 Whitney Joseph Stracci ’09 New Rivers Press, 2013 Wide Eyed Trinie Dalton ’04 Akashic Books, 2005 Widows and Orphans Fund, The Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011 Window Across the River, A Brian Morton F Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 Woke Up Lonely Fiona Maazel ’02 Graywolf Press, 2013 Woman Who Lost Her Soul, The Bob Shacochis WIR Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013
Brown Sugar 4: Secret Desires “My Brother’s Wife” by Asha Bandele ’99 Washington Square Press, 2005
Short Story America Volume 1 “Disengaged” by Jennifer Knox ’10 Short Story America Press, 2009
Collected Stories, The Amy Hempel F Scribner, 2007
Smolder “Gay Life, 1963” by Gail Louise Siegel ’03 Bannock Street Books, 2009
Consumed Women on Excess “Retail Guerilla” by Gail Louise Siegel ’03 So New Media, 2006 Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is Trinie Dalton ’04, anthology editor McSweeney’s, 2005 Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women “Ann Lay Naked in the Sun” and “They Go There Forever” by Sherril Jaffe ’01 Faber & Faber, 1988 Derby Shorts: The Best New Fiction from the Roller Derby Track “Monster” by Steven LaFond ’11 For Books’ Sake, 2013 Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora “The Memorial” by Randi Triant ’01 Third World Press, 2007 Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes “Women Writing on the Great Lakes: Hunting the Moon” by Gail Louise Siegel ’03 Michigan State University Press, 2006 Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember “What I Know About You” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Syracuse University Press, 1998 Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land Wesley Brown F, edited with Amy Ling Persea Books, 2003 Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State “From One Edge of the World to Another” by Irina Reyn ’06, anthology editor Simon & Schuster, 2007 Lost on Purpose: Women in the City “Double Cutaway” by Gail Louise Siegel ’03 Seal Press, 2005 Meeting Across the River: Stories Inspired by the Haunting Bruce Springsteen Song “The Other Side” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Bloomsbury USA, 2005 Meridian Bound: Fiction, Essays, Poetry and More “The Caretakers” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Pella Publishing Company, 2000
Wonders of the Invisible World, The David Gates F Vintage Books, 2010
My California: Journeys by Great Writers “Transients in Paradise” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Angel City Press, 2004
Writing on the Wall, The Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Counterpoint Press, 2005
Mythtym Trinie Dalton ’04, anthology editor PictureBox, 2008
You Are Not Alone & Other Stories Sherril Jaffe ’01 Willow Springs Editions, 2013
New Directions 36: An International Anthology of Prose & Poetry “Hawaii” by Sherril Jaffe ’01 New Directions Publishing, 1978
Fiction Anthologies and Collections Best American Short Stories, 2011 “Housewifely Arts” by Megan Mayhew Bergman ’10 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 Best of the Ear, The Sherril Jaffe ’01, contributor Swiftprint, 1984 Best Travel Writing 2008, The: True Stories From Around the World “The Village Kazani” by Paul Hertneky ’01 Travelers’ Tales, 2008 Boston Noir 2: The Classics Jaime Clarke ’97, anthology editor Akashic Books, 2012
New Stories from the South 2010: The Year’s Best “The Cow That Milked Herself” by Megan Mayhew Bergman ’10 Algonquin Books, 2010 New Stories from the Southwest “Hermano” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Swallow Press, 2007 No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine Jaime Clarke ’97, anthology editor Dzanc Books, 2011 Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years “The Telemarketer’s Point of View” by Gail Louise Siegel ’03 Snowvigate Press, 2009
Stranger Among Us, A: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection “Bhakthi in the Water” by Shubha Venugopal ’08 OV Books, 2008 Stranger Among Us, A: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection “Forward” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 OV Books, 2008 Stranger Among Us, A: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection “The Wolf Story” by Irina Reyn ’06 OV Books, 2008 Sue De Beer Trinie Dalton ’04, anthology editor Downtown Arts Projects, 2005 Where the Mountain Stands Alone: Stories of Place in the Monadnock Region “Entimento Della Casa (A Sense of Home)” by Paul Hertneky ’01 University Press of New England, 2006 Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories Donald Hall WIR Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction “Humans” by Dan Zigmond ’05 Wisdom Publications, 2006
Nonfiction 100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers: Insider Secrets for Working Smart and Staying Creative Laurel Saville ’04, co-authored with Steve Gordon Jr. Rockport Publishers, 2009 100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers: Insider Secrets for Working Smart and Staying Creative Laurel Saville ’04 Rockport Publishers, 2008
Assassination of Fred Hampton, The: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther Jeffrey Haas ’07 Lawrence Hill Books / Chicago Review Press, 2010 At the Ansonia Hotel: A Broadway Landmark Turns 100 Cristina Del Sesto ’96 Pell-Mell Press, 2004 Best Day the Worst Day, The: Life with Jane Kenyon Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 2006 Bigger than Life: A Murder, A Memoir Dinah Lenney ’03 University of Nebraska Press, 2007 Book of Calamities, The: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning Peter Trachtenberg F Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life Lyndall Gordon WIR W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996 Codependency Conspiracy, The: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge of Your Life Aimee E. Liu ’06, coauthored with Dr. Stan J. Katz Grand Central Publishing, 1991 Conversations with American Women Writers Sarah Anne Johnson ’00 University Press of New England, 2004 Design Secrets: Furniture: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered Laurel Saville ’04 Rockport Publishers, 2006 Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction Susan Cheever F Simon & Schuster, 2008 Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love Bob Shacochis WIR Scribner, 1994 Drink to the Lasses: Notes from a Women’s College Womb Mary Beth Ellis ’02 Cold Tree Press, 2006 Emergence of Memory, The: Conversations with W.G. Sebald Lynne Sharon Schwartz F, editor Seven Stories Press, 2007
7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh Peter Trachtenberg F Penguin Books, 1998
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting Amy Lou Jenkins ’06 Holy Cow! Press, 2010
Accidental Bond, The: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships Susan Scarf Merrell ’09 Times Books, 1995
Face to Face: A Reader in the World Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Beacon Press, 2000
Acting for Young Actors: The Ultimate Teen Guide Dinah Lenney ’03, co-authored with Mary Lou Belli Back Stage Books, 2006 Allergic Girl: Adventures in Living Well with Food Allergies Sloane Miller ’98 John Wiley & Sons, 2011 American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work Susan Cheever F Simon & Schuster, 2006 An Inside Passage Kurt Caswell ’04 Bison Books, 2009 Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons Peter Trachtenberg F Da Capo Press, 2012 Art of the Author Interview, The: And Interviewing Creative People Sarah Anne Johnson ’00 University Press of New England, 2005 Art of Time in Memoir, The: Then, Again Sven Birkerts F Graywolf Press, 2007 As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir of Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times Susan Cheever F Washington Square Press, 2002
False Love and Other Romantic Illusions Aimee E. Liu ’06 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988 Forgotten Heroes & Villains of Sand Creek Carol Turner ’97 The History Press, 2010 Gaining: The Truth about Life after Eating Disorders Aimee E. Liu ’06 Warner Books, 2007 Ground Rules: What I Learned My Daughter’s Fifteenth Year Sherril Jaffe ’01 Kodansha International, 1997 Gutenberg Elegies, The: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Sven Birkerts F Faber & Faber, 2006 Heaven and Earth Are Flowers: Reflections on Ikebana and Buddhism Joan D. Stamm ’98 Wisdom Publications, 2010 Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter Susan Cheever F Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1984 Immaculate Invasion, The Bob Shacochis WIR Viking Penguin, 1999 In the Sun’s House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation Kurt Caswell ’04 Trinity University Press, 2009 Jewels on the Water: Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands Jeff Rennicke ’04 Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 2005
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil Deborah Rodriguez ’??? <alum year? Random House, 2007 Kingdom of His Will, The Catherine Parnell ’00 Arrowsmith Press, 2007 Live & Learn: Perspectives on the Questing Spirit Carol S. Lawson ’99 Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, 2001 Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love Debra Gwartney ’06 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds Lyndall Gordon WIR Viking Adult, 2010 Looking for Signs: Essays and Columns Diane Cameron ’99 The Troy Book Makers, 2013 Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography Susan Cheever F Simon & Schuster, 2010 Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time Jordan E. Rosenfeld ’05 Writer’s Digest Books, 2008 Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer Rolf Potts ’11 Travelers’ Tales, 2008 My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous Susan Cheever F Washington Square Press, 2005 Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer Bret Anthony Johnston F, editor Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 Natural Laws of Good Luck, The: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage Ellen Graf ’07 Trumpeter Books, 2009 No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy Wendy Call ’07 University of Nebraska Press, 2011 Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Counterpoint Press, 2009 Note Found in a Bottle Susan Cheever F Simon & Schuster, 1999 Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder & Mayhem Carol Turner ’97 The History Press, 2010 Notorious San Juans: Wicked Tales from Ouray, San Juan & La Plata Counties Carol Turner ’97 The History Press, 2011 Notorious Telluride: Tales from San Niguel County Carol Turner ’97 The History Press, 2010 Object Parade, The Dinah Lenney ’03 Counterpoint Press, 2014 One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi Sherril Jaffe ’01, co-authored with Alan Lew Kodansha International, 1999 Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis John R. Coats ’06 Simon & Schuster, 2009 Out of the Woods: A Woman’s Guide to Long-term Recovery Diane Cameron ’99 Central Recovery Press, 2014 Outdoor Stonework: The Timeless, Practical, and Aesthetic Value of Stone Laurel Saville ’04 Quarry Books, 2008 Place to Live and Other Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg, A Lynne Sharon Schwartz F, essays with Natalia Ginzburg Seven Stories Press, 2002
Postmortem Laurel Saville ’04 iUniverse, 2009 Practice of Sustainable Community Development Donald Berk ’02 Springer, 2013 Principal Products of Portugal Donald Hall WIR Beacon Press, 1997 Prisoner’s Wife, The: A Memoir Asha Bandele ’99 Scribner, 1999 Reading Life: Books for the Ages Sven Birkerts F Graywolf Press, 2007 Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Beacon Press, 1996 Secondary Landscape, A Aaron Gilbreath ’11 Future Tense Books, 2013 Shared Lives: A Remembrance Lyndall Gordon WIR W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992 Shiver in the Night Andrew Pratt ’01 Xlibris, 2006 Shoe Time Aimee E. Liu ’06, co-authored with Meg Rottman Arbor House, 1986 Solitaire Aimee E. Liu ’06 Harper & Row, 1979 Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story Asha Bandele ’99 HarperCollins, 2009 Stoned Age, The Aaron Gilbreath ’11 Thought Catalog, 2013 eBook Story Within, The: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers Laura Oliver ’99 Penguin, 2011 String too short to be saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm Donald Hall WIR Nonpareil Books, 1979 Success Trap Aimee E. Liu ’06, co-authored with Dr. Stan J. Katz Ticknor & Fields, 1990 T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life Lyndall Gordon WIR W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999 Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West Cristina Del Sesto ’96, coauthored with Steven A. Emerson Villard Books, 1991 Tilled Paths Through Wilds of Thought Wendy Call ’07 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, 2012 Too Good to Be True Benjamin Anastas F Little A / New Harvest, 2012 Treetops: A Family Memoir Susan Cheever F Bantam, 1991 Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry Donald Hall WIR Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008 Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel Rolf Potts ’11 Villard Books, 2003 Very Telling, The: Conversations with American Writers Sarah Anne Johnson ’00 University Press of New England, 2006
Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life Jordan E. Rosenfeld ’05, co-authored with Rebecca Lawton Kulupi Press, 2008 Writing Well: Ninth Edition Sven Birkerts F, co-authored with Donald Hall Longman, 2006 Yoga for Depression Amy Weintraub ’00 Broadway Books, 2004 Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management Amy Weintraub ’00 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012
Nonfiction Anthologies and Collections About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror “The Punk Infanta” by Dana Kinstler ’99 Seal Press, 2008 American Lives: A Reader “Acting” by Dinah Lenney ’03 University of Nebraska Press, 2010 An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature Sven Birkerts F William Morrow and Company, 1987 Aproximaciones a la Región del Istmo “El istmo de Tehuantepec, visto por ojos norteamericanos: cien años de la historia istmeña en el New York Times” by Wendy Call ’07 CIESAS / CONACULTA, Mexico, 2011 Becoming: What Makes a Woman “Happy Birthday” by Dinah Lenney ’03 University of Nebraska Gender Programs, 2012 Best American Spiritual Writing 2008, The “Who Am I? Notes on Ecstatic Moments” by John R. Coats ’06 Mariner Books, 2008 Best American Travel Writing 2000, The “Storming ‘The Beach’” by Rolf Potts ’11 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 Best American Travel Writing 2006, The “Tantric Sex for Dilettantes” by Rolf Potts ’11 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 Best American Travel Writing 2008, The Gail Hosking Gilberg ’97, contributor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008 Best Creative Nonfiction, The, Vol. 2 “The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra” by Rolf Potts ’11 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008 Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference “My Father’s Windmill: Daily Grieving in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon” by Lyn Fraser ’97 Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2000 California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State “The Dinner Party” by Dinah Lenney ’03 Outpost 19, 2013 Claims for Poetry Donald Hall WIR University of Michigan Press, 1983
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Lyndall Gordon WIR Harper Perennial, 2006
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Jaime Clarke ’97, anthology editor University Press of Mississippi, 2011
Virginia Woolfe: A Writer’s Life Lyndall Gordon WIR W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001
Cradle and All: Women Writers on Pregnancy and Birth Sherril Jaffe ’01, contributor Faber & Faber, 1989
Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother Meg Federico ’00 Random House, 2009
Don’t You Forget about Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes Jaime Clarke ’97, anthology editor Simon & Schuster, 2007
Everyday Book Marketing: Promotion Ideas to Fit Your Regularly Scheduled Life “Q and A with Author Wendy Call” by Wendy Call ’07 Ashland Creek Press, 2013 Face in the Mirror, The: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age “Becoming International” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Prometheus Books, 2009
Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine “Publishing What We Are Trying to Write” by Aaron Gilbreath ’11 Atticus Books, 2013 Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982–88 Donald Hall WIR University of Michigan Press, 1988
Feed Me! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image “Sugar Plum Fairy” by Dana Kinstler ’99 Ballantine Books, 2009
Reading Montana Poetry “The Frost Family in Montana: Poetic Generations” by Tami Haaland ’00 University of Montana Press, 2013
Florida Crime Writers: 24 Interviews “Life with a Capital ‘L’” by Mary Beth Ellis ’02 McFarland, 2007
Risk, Courage, and Women: Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry “The Tiger” and “Traveling Words” by Gail Hosking Gilberg ’97 University of North Texas Press, 2007
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance “Dead Bone” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Seal Press, 2007 Forced to Be Family: A Guide to Living with Sinister Sisters, Drama Mamas, and Infuriating In-Laws “Left Behind” by Leigh Perham ’05 J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Get on the Bus: Short and True Tales of Bus Travel “Signs” by Dinah Lenney ’03 CITY|SPACE, 2006
Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, The “All About You” by Dinah Lenney ’03 Rose Metal Press, 2012 Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women “Home” by Asha Bandele ’99 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003
Letters to Sophie Don Freas ’96 Lost Arts, 2002 Light Under Skin Amanda Auchter ’08 Finishing Line Press, 2006 “A Colander of Barley” and “Little Girl” Tami Haaland ’00 American Life in Poetry, 2013 online
Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World Niloufar Talebi ’05, editor North Atlantic Books, 2008
Love and Strange Horses Nathalie Handal F University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
Voluntary Servitude Mark Wunderlich F Graywolf Press, 2004
Blue Skies: Poems E. Louise Beach ’07 Finishing Line Press, 2006
Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader, A: Selected Prose and Poetry (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers) Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Middlebury, 1992
Boarding House Victoria Clausi ’96 Bennington College MFA in Writing Alumni Chapbook Series, 1999 Bone Ring, The Donald Hall WIR Story Line Press, 1987 Boy from Egypt, The Dara-Lyn Shrager ’06 Finishing Line Press, 2009 Brass Michael Lythgoe ’97 Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2006
Magic Word Marjorie Manwaring ’03 Pudding House Publications, 2007 Marriage and Other Infidelities: Poems Debra Wierenga ’05 Finishing Line Press, 2007 Museum of Clear Ideas, The Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 1994 Natural History Don Freas ’96 Lost Arts, 2000
Breath in Every Room Tami Haaland ’00 Story Line Press, 2001
Neither Rising nor Falling Jeremy Voigt ’06 Finishing Line Press, 2009
Bright Obvious, The: Poems Rebecca A. Spears ’02 Finishing Line Press, 2009
Neverfield Poem, The Nathalie Handal ’02 Post-Apollo Press, 1999
Chaplainbook Rachel Barenblat ’99 Lulu Press, Inc., 2006
Night Radio Kimberly Young ’08 University of Utah Press, 2012
Conversion Remica L. Bingham ’05 Lotus Press, 2007
Now You’re the Enemy: Poems James Allen Hall ’00 University of Arkansas Press, 2008
Cut Worm, The Douglas Korb ’06 Bright Hill Press, 2008 Darling Angel Meat Kathryn Robinson ’12 Shoe Music Press, 2012
Old Life, The Donald Hall WIR Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage Leslie McGrath ’05 Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2009
How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference “The Waltz” by Mary Beth Ellis ’02 Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers Jaime Clarke ’97, anthology editor PFP Publishing, 2013
Ferry Crossing Rebecca Balcarcel ’02 Trilobite Press, 2002
Poet in Andalucia Nathalie Handal F University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012
If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home “Birth Mother” by Roberta Brown Root ’05 Hearst, 2006
Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass, The Wesley Brown F Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2007
“Findings” Tami Haaland ’00 The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor, 2008 online
Psalms: Poems April Bernard F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995
I’m on My Way Running: Women Speak on Coming of Age “Thin Fever” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Avon Books, 1983
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Neiman Foundation at Harvard University Wendy Call ’07, anthology editor with Mark Kramer Penguin/Plume, 2007
Maternal Is Political, The: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood & Social Change “One Hundred and TwentyFive Miles” by Amy Jenkins ’06 Seal Press, 2008 Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love “My Hades History” by Dana Kinstler ’99 Ballantine Books, 2007 My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family “My Father’s New Muse” by Dana Kinstler ’99 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006 My First Novel: Tales of Woe and Glory “So You Know: Instructions for a Middle-Aged-AcrtressWann-Be-Writer” by Dinah Lenney ’03 Writers Tribe Books, 2013 My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time Sven Birkerts F Viking Adult, 2002 Mythology and Modern Women Poets: Analysis, Reflection & Teaching “Myth and Reenactment: Ancient Story and Symbol in the Poetry of Sandra Alcosser and Pattiann Rogers” by Tami Haaland ’00 McFarland Press, 2013 Other Walk, The: Essays Sven Birkerts F Graywolf Press, 2011
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers “The Waltz” by Mary Beth Ellis ’02 Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 Unmade Bed, The: Sensual Writing on Married Love “The Marriage Made in Heaven” by Sherril Jaffe ’01 HarperCollins, 1992 Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land Wesley Brown F, edited with Amy Ling Persea Books, 1999 Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes “A Great Wall” by Aimee E. Liu ’06 Hudson Street Press, 2006 Wild with Child: Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors “Close to Home” by Amy Jenkins ’06 Travelers’ Tales, 2010 Writers and Their Notebooks “From the Audience of One to the Audience of Anyone” by Wendy Call ’07 University of South Carolina Press, 2010
Poetry Absence in the Palm of My Hands & Other Poems Asha Bandele ’99 Writers & Readers, 1996
Toward Anguish Leslie McGrath ’05 Providence Athenaeum, 2007
Unlucky Lucky Tales Daniel Grandbois ’04 Texas Tech University Press, 2012
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape Debra Gwartney ’06, anthology editor Trinity University Press, 2006
Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse Sven Birkerts F Graywolf Press, 1996
Tips for Domestic Travel Hayden Saunier ’05 Black Lawrence Press, 2009
Loneliness of Dogs, The Timothy Mayo ’04 Pudding House Publications, 2008
Divided Highway Kimberly Young ’08 Dancing Girl Press, 2008
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks “El Campamento” by Sherril Jaffe ’01 Soft Skull Press, 2013
Timbre of Sand, The Stephen Page ’08 Gorrion Press, 1998
Under Red Cedars Mary Elizabeth Lang ’07 Little Red Tree Publishing, 2008
Sustainable Learning Community, The: One University’s Journey to the Future “The UNH Compost Program— From Waste to Compost,” “Acting Locally—The UNH Local Harvest Initiative,” “The New Hampshire Farm to School Program,” and “New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future” by Elisabeth Farrell ’07 University of New Hampshire Press, 2009
Grotto Stories: From the Heart of Notre Dame “From the Heart of Notre Dame” by Mary Beth Ellis ’02 Mary Sunshine Books, 1996
These Metallic Days Sally Ashton ’03 Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005
Lives of Rain, The Nathalie Handal ’02 Interlink Books, 2005
Bathsheba Transatlantic Sarah Mattson-Fishman ’09 <name on cover is Sarah Wetzel Anhinga Press, 2010
Fiction
Letters From Siberia Sophie Wadsworth ’08 Threshold Press, 2004
Double Solitude Elaine McFerron ’99 Green River Press, 2004 Eagle Pond Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 2007 Earth Avails, The Mark Wunderlich F Graywolf Press, 2014
First Body Mark Conway ’98 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2004 Fox and the Sunflower, The Catherine Sherman ’06 Finishing Line Press, 2008
Wanton Textiles Reb Livingston ’01, coauthored with Ravi Shankar No Tell Books, 2006 We Aren’t Who We Are – and this world isn’t either Christine Korfhage ’01 CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2007 When We Wake in the Night Tami Haaland ’00 WordTech Communications, 2012 Whirligig Christopher Salerno ’03 Spuyten Duyvil, 2006 White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006 Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 2007 Wicked, Excellently Brent Terry ’01 WordTech Communications, 2007 Wishing Tomb, The Amanda Auchter ’08 Perugia Press, 2012 Without: Poems Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 1999 Your Ten Favorite Words Reb Livingston ’01 Coconut Books, 2007
Poetry Anthologies and Collections American Poetry Now Pitt Poetry Series Anthology Ed Ochester F University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007
Other Brief Discourses Abby Paige ’09 above/ground press, 2013
American Society: What Poets See “The Card” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 FutureCycle Press, 2012
Painted Bed, The Donald Hall WIR Mariner Books, 2003
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, The Reb Livingston ’01, anthology editor Lulu Press, Inc., 2006
Palabras in Each Fist Rebecca Balcarcel ’02 Pecan Grove Press, 2009
Real Politics of Lipstick, The Mary Carroll-Hackett ’03 Slipstream, 2010 Republic of Lies, The Ed Ochester F Adastra Press, 2007
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel–Second Floor, The Reb Livingston ’01, anthology editor No Tell Books, 2007 Beloved on Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude “Kaddish” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Holy Cow! Press, 2009 Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers “Betray” by Elizabeth Knapp ’00 University of Virginia Press, 2007
Ric’s Progress Donald Hall WIR Warwick Press, 1996
Best of Pif Magazine, The: Off-line Anne Doolittle ’99, poetry editor Fusion Press, 2000
Girl at the Watershed Nicola Waldron ’13 Stepping Stone Press, 2013
Romanticism: Poems April Bernard F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011
Best of Write Action, The “Flamants Roses” by Timothy Mayo ’04 Five Corners Press, 2008
Glass Crib, The Amanda Auchter ’08 Zone 3 Press, 2011
Saint-Pol-Roux & Other Poems from the French Anna M. Evans ’08, translations Barefoot Muse Press, 2012
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century “The subtle art of breathing” by Asha Bandele ’99 Black Classic Press, 2002
Ghost Girl Amy Gerstler ’01 Penguin Books, 2004
Glow of Everyday Objects, The Amie Keddy ’04 Finishing Line Press, 2007 Holding Company: Poems Major Jackson F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012 Hollow Out Kelsea Habecker ’03 New Rivers Press, 2008 Holy City Mark Conway ’98 Silverfish Review Press, 2005 Holy Week Michael Lythgoe ’97 Xlibris Corporation, 2007 Hoops Major Jackson F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007 In Creation Don Freas ’96 Lost Arts, 1996 In Search of Landscape Helen Wickes ’02 Sixteen Rivers Press, 2007 In Solitary: Poems Lynne Sharon Schwartz F The Sheep Meadow Press, 2002
See You in the Dark: Poems Lynne Sharon Schwartz F Curbstone Books, 2012 Selected Poems of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Anna M. Evans ’08, translations Barefoot Muse Press, 2013 Selected Sonnets Anna M. Evans ’08 Maverick Duck Press, 2009 Seven-Star Bird: Poems David Daniel F Graywolf Press, 2003 Still Dandelions Stephen Page ’08 Unknown publisher, unknown date Stolen From, The: Poems about Memory & Alzheimer’s Anna M. Evans ’08 Barefoot Muse Press, 2013 Subtle Art of Breathing, The: New Poems Asha Bandele ’99 Moore Black Press, 2005 Swimming Anna M. Evans ’08 Maverick Duck Press, 2006
Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar “Crepe Myrtles” by Rebecca Balcarcel ’02 Dos Gatos Press, 2008 Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems “Brevity” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Accents Publishing, 2011 Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry “The Ritual of Season” by Remica L. Bingham ’05 University of Georgia Press, 2009 Brilliant Coroners: Selected Poems Rachel Barenblat ’99, anthology editor Lulu Press, Inc., 2007 Contemporary American Poetry Donald Hall WIR Penguin Books, 1989 Darfur Anthology Rachael Tecza ’96, anthology editor Hagg Press, 2007
Kingdom of Possibilities, The Timothy Mayo ’04 Mayapple Press, 2009
Testimonial by Nature: Poems Don Freas ’96 Lost Arts Design, 2004
Eat Our Words: Montana Writers’ Cookbook compiled by the Montana Center for the Book “Play” by Tami Haaland ’00 Farcountry Press, 2005
Leaving Saturn Major Jackson F University of Georgia Press, 2002
Theory of Everything Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Pudding House Publications, 2003
Ecopoetry Anthology, The “Goldeye Vole” by Tami Haaland ’00 Trinity University Press, 2013
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great “Marginalia on our Bodies” and “The Past Described, As a Figure” by Mark Conway ’98 Persea Books, 2009 Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade “Marchers Headed for Washington, Baltimore 1963” by Remica L. Bingham ’05 University of Michigan Press, 2006 Imagination & Place: Weather “Groundhog Day” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 Imagination & Place Press, 2012 Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places “Lapakahi, Hawaii” and “Poland, 1990” by Alan Elyshevitz ’99 John Gordon Burke Publisher, 2000 Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond Nathalie Handal ’02, anthology editor W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008 Letters to the World “Reasons to Fly” by Tami Haaland ’00 Red Hen Press, 2008 Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing “Lipstick” by Tami Haaland ’00 Longman, 2012 Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart “The Dog,” “First Trimester,” “Scout Meeting at Mayflower Congregational,” and “11:05” by Tami Haaland ’00 Farcountry Press, 2006 Motif: Writing by Ear “Listening to Rudolph Serkin Play Brahms” by Timothy Mayo ’04 MOTES, 2009 My Heart’s First Steps: Writings That Celebrate the Gifts of Parenthood “The Playground” by Rebecca Balcarcel ’02 Adams Media Corporation, 2003 New Poets of the American West “Liar” and “Not Scientifically Verifiable” by Tami Haaland ’00 Many Voices Press, 2010 Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, A World Poetry Anthology “Magic Flute” and “Things I No Longer Examine Too Closely” by Anna M. Evans ’08 Haven Books, 2009 Poems Across The Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets “Let Deer Come Crashing” and “Kathy Catches a Train” by Tami Haaland ’00 Many Voices Press, 2006 Poetry of Arab Women, The: A Contemporary Anthology Nathalie Handal ’02, anthology editor Interlink Books, 2001 R.D. Lawrence Commemorative Anthology, The: Issued in Memory of the World Renowned Naturalist, Journalist & Author “Flamants Roses” by Timothy Mayo ’04 Clouds Nest Press, 2007 Ringing Ear, The: Black Poets Lean South “Simmie Knox Paints Bill Clinton for the White House” by Remica L. Bingham ’05 University of Georgia Press, 2007 Ritual to Read Together, A: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford Rebecca Lachman ’11, anthology editor Woodley Press, 2013 Roots & Flowers: poets and poems on family “A Letter to Mother” by Victoria Clausi ’96 Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2001 Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973–1988 Ed Ochester F Autumn House Press, 2000 Sorrow Psalms, The: A Book of Twentieth-Century Elegy “Any Holy City,” “White: Echo,” and “First Body” by Mark Conway ’98 University of Iowa Press, 2006 Swan Electric: Poems April Bernard F W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003 Unleashed: Poems by Writers’ Dogs Amy Hempel F, co-edited with Jim Shepard Crown Publishers, 1995 Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New Ed Ochester F Autumn House Press, 2007 Weight of Addition, an anthology of Texas Poetry, The “Donald Judd’s Hangar” by Rebecca Spears ’02 Mutabilis Press, 2007 Zoland Poetry: An Annual of Poems, Translations & Interviews – Volume One (Zoland Poetry Annual) “Esmail Kho’I” and “Mina Assadi” by Niloufar Talebi ’05 Zoland Books, 2007