2016 Creative Writing Alumni & Faculty Books
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The New School Creative Writing Program with these books, contributed to or written by Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty. All published in 2016. newschool.edu/writing
MFA Creative Writing Alumni
Liz Axelrod (’13), Go Ask Alice, Finishing Line Press
Marc Bojanowski (’03), Journeyman, Granta Books
Kalisha Buckhanon (’03), Solemn, St. Martin’s Press
Caela Carter (’12), My Life with the Liars, HarperCollins Publishers
Selene Castrovilla (’06) Signs of Life, Last Syllable Books
Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaiportra (’12), Shiny Broken Pieces,
HarperTeen
Jennifer Close (’06), The Hopefuls, Alfred A. Knopf
Nick Comilla (’14), Candyass, Arsenal Pulp Press
Stephanie Danler (’14), Sweetbitter, Alfred A. Knopf
M. Thomas Gammarino (’05), King of the Worlds, Chin Music Press
Lee Matthew Goldberg (’06), The Mentor, Thomas Dunne Books/St.
Martin’s Press
Mark Gurarie (’11), Everybody’s Automat, The Operating System
Scott Alexander Hess (’09), Skyscraper, Lethe Press
Kathryn Holmes (’10), How It Feels to Fly, HarperTeen
Dan Hoy (’06), The Deathbed Editions, Octopus Books
Lauren Hunter (’09), Human Achievements, Birds, LLC
Martin Hyatt (’99), Beautiful Gravity, Antibookclub
Mila Jaroniec (’14), Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover, Split Lip Press
Christine Kanownik (’10), King of Pain, Monk Books
Steven Karl (’07), Sister, Noemi Press
Yorker Keith (’09), Remembrance of Blue Roses, BookBaby
Heidi R. Kling (’01), Not Okay, Cupid, Entangled Publishing
Alison Kinney (’03), Object Lessons: Hood, Bloomsbury
Amy Kurzweil (’13), Flying Couch, Black Balloon
Cynthia Manick (’07), Blue Hallelujahs, Black Lawrence Press
Morgan Matson (’07), The Unexpected Everything, Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers
Alexandra Oliva (’11), The Last One, Random House
Ali Power (’11), A Poem for Record Keepers, Argos Books
Helen Klein Ross (’03), What Was Mine, Simon and Schuster
Peter Selgin (’06), The Inventors, Hawthorne Books
Jade Sharma (’12), Problems, Emily Books
Matthew Thorburn (’01), Dear Almost, LSU Press
Siobhan Vivian (’06), The Last Boy and Girl in the World, Simon and
Schuster Books for Young Readers
Simone White (’06), Of Being Dispersed, Futurepoem Books
Matthew Yeager (’05), Like That, Forklift Books
Creative Writing Faculty
Alice Cohen (’99), What I Thought I Knew and Other Plays, No Passport Press
Carol Goodman (’99), River Road, Touchstone
Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most, W.W. Norton & Co.
Hettie Jones, Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones, Duke
University Press
Nancy Kelton, Finding Mr. Rightstein, Passager Books
James Lasdun, The Fall Guy, W.W. Norton & Co.
David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2016, Scribner
Caron Levis (’08), Ida, Always, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Robert Lopez (’99), Good People, Bellevue Literary Press
Dale Peck, Editor, The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction, Soho Press
John Reed, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, C&R Press
Laurie Sheck, The Island of the Mad, Counterpoint Press
Catherine Texier, Russian Lessons, Rawmeash Books
