The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2019 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 31 books have been published by alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, 3 books haven been published by alumni of the Riggio Honors Program, and 11 books have been published by faculty of the Creative Writing Program.
The list includes publications from the “Big Four” publishing houses, university presses, and independent publishers. All four genres of study offered by the MFA in Creative Writing Program are represented: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children and young adults.
Every year, the Creative Writing Program celebrates these authors with its annual book party. The 2019 authors will be celebrated on February 19, 2020, 6 PM, The New School, Theresa Lang Center
Congratulations to all! *If you published a book this year or know of a fellow MFA alumni who published a book, please let us know by emailing writingprogram@newschool.edu and we will add you to this list.
MFA Program Alumni
Kacen Callender ’14, Queen of the Conquered, Hachette
Sona Charaipotra ’12, Symptoms of a Heartbreak, Imprint
Charlotte Nicole Davis ’16, The Good Luck Girls, Tor Teen
Gabriel Don '13, Living Without Skin, Fly By Night Press
Eileen Dunbar '11, Single Track, IngramSpark
Ben Fama '15, Deathwish, Newest York
Kristina Forest ’16, I Wanna Be Where Your Are, Roaring Book Press
DuEwa Frazier, '11, Alice's Musical Debut, Lit Noire Publishing Children
Lee Matthew Goldberg ’06, The Desire Card, Fahrenheit Press
Gina Marie Guadagnino ’10, The Parting Glass, Atria Books
Ellen Hagan ’03 and Renee Watson (BA ’09), Watch Us Rise, Bloomsbury USA
Robert Haller ’15, Another Life, Blackstone Publishing
Corey Ann Haydu ’12, Eventown, Katherine Tegen Books
Scott Hess ’09, The River Runs Red, Lethe Press
Megin Jiménez ‘04, Mongrel Tongue, 1913 Press
Daniel W.K. Lee ’06, Anatomy of Want, Rebel Satori Press
Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Alcy Levya '18, A Midnight Clear, and And Then There Were Dragons, Black Spot Books.
Anna Meriano, Love Sugar Magic, Walden Pond Press
Allison Moorer ’17, Blood: A Memoir, Da Capo Press
Jessie Paddock ’17, The Crush Necklace, Scholastic
Polly Rosenwaike, ’09, Look How Happy I’m Making You, Doubleday
Laura Silverman ’15, You Asked For Perfect, Sourcebooks Fire, and It’s a Whole Spiel, Knopf Books for Young Readers
Aditi Sriram ’13, Beyond the Boulevards: A Short Biography of Pondicherry, Aleph Book Company
Catherine Stine ’03, Pictures of Dorianna, Konjur Road Press
Marco Rafalá ’06, How Fires End, Little A
David Leo Rice ‘19, Angel House, Kerpunkt Press
Matthew Thorburn ’04, The Grace of Distance, Louisiana University Press
Masha Tupitsyn ’19, Picture Cycle, Semiotext(e)
Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy Alumni
Christopher Shade ’09, The Good Mother of Marseilles, Paloma Press
Marisa Frasca ‘09, Wild Fennel: Poems and Other Stories, Bordighera Press
Ted Kerr, OnCurating Issue 42: What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill A Museum, OnCurating
Creative Writing Faculty
Star Black, The Popular Vote, Saturnalia
Elaine Equi, The Intangibles, Coffee House Press
Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, One World
James Lasdun, Afternoon of A Faun, W. W. Norton
Suzannah Lessard, The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape,
Counterpoint Press
Caron Levis, Mama’s Work Shoes, Abrams Books for Young Readers
Robert Polito, Manny Farber: Paintings and Writings, H & B
John Reed, A Drama In Time: The New School Century, Profile Editions
Jill Santopolo, More Than Words, G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Susan Shapiro, Barbie, Assouline
Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, Sarah Crichton Books
Brenda Wineapple, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, Random House
