Alumni Publications
The NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program Alumni have published numerous acclaimed books and won many major awards and prizes. We are delighted to recognize and celebrate here the accomplishments of our exceptional alumni.
Pearl Abraham
The Romance Reader. Riverhead, 1995.
Giving Up America. Riverhead, 1998.
The Seventh Beggar. Riverhead, 2005.
Anya Achtenberg
I Know What the Small Girl Knew. Holy Cow! Press, 1983.
The Stone of Language. West End Press, 2004.
The Stories of Devil-Girl. Modern History Press, 2008.
Anjail Rashida Ahmad
Necessary Kindling. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Kazim Ali
The Far Mosque. Alice James Books, 2005.
The Fortieth Day. BOA Editions, 2008.
William Allen
The Man on the Moon: Poems. Persea Books, 1987.
Sevastopol: On Photographs of War. Xenos Books, 1997.
Zoe Anglesey
ed. Ixok Amar. Go: Central American Women's Poetry for Peace. Granite Press, 1992.
ed. Stone on Stone: Poetry by Women of Diverse Heritages. Open Hands Publishing, 1994.
ed. !Word Up! Hope for the Youth Poetry. El Centro de la Raza, 1993.
Daphne Beale
In the Land of No Right Angles. Vintage/Anchor Books, 2008.
Amy Bartlett
Afterwards. Persea, 1985.
Olivia Birdsall
Notes on a Near-Life Experience. Random House, 2007.
Jacqueline Bishop
My Mother Who Is Me: Life Stories from Jamaican Women in New York. Africa World Press, 2006.
Fauna. Peepal Tree Press, 2006.
The River's Song. Peepal Tree Press, 2007.
Writers Who Paint, Painters Who Write. Peepal Tree Press, 2007.
Courtney Brkic
Stillness: And Other Stories. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003.
The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living. Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 2004.
Judy Budnitz
Flying Leap. Picador, 1998.
If I Told You Once. Picador, 1999.
Nice Big American Baby. Vintage, 2006
Luis Cabalquinto
The Ibalon Collection. Kalikasan Press, 1991.
Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems and New (1969-2001). Kaya/Muae, 2001
Penny Cagan
City Poems. Chatoyant, 1997.
And Today I am Happy. Chatoyant, 2000.
Margaret Castaldo
The Foreigner. Pocket Books, June 2001.
Fran Castan
The Widow's Quilt. Canio's Editions, 1996.
Patricia Chao
Monkey King. HarperCollins, 1997.
Mambo Peligroso. HarperCollins, 2006.
Carol Conroy
The Beauty Wars. W. W. Norton, 1991.
Karin Cook
What Girls Learn. Pantheon/Vintage, 1997.
Galaxy Craze
By the Shore. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Tiger, Tiger. Grove Press, 2008.
Angie Cruz
Soledad. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Let it Rain Coffee. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Tory Dent
What Silence Equals. Persea, 1993.
HIV, Mon Amour. Sheep Meadow Press, 1999.
Black Milk. Sheep Meadow Press, 2005.
Toi Derricotte
The Empress of the Death House. Lotus, 1978.
Captivity. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Tender. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997
Natural Birth. Firebrand Books, 2000.
Cameron Dougan
Because She is Beautiful. Random House, 2001.
Helen Ellis
Eating the Cheshire Cat. Scribners, 2000.
Louisa Ermelino
The Black Madonna. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
The Sisters Mallone: Una Storia Di Famiglia. Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Joey Dee Gets Wise. Kensington, 2004.
Nick Flynn
Some Ether. Graywolf, 2000.
Blind Huber. Graywolf, 2002.
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Jan Freeman
Autumn Sequence. Paris Press, 1993.
Hyena. Cleveland State University Press, 1993.
Nell Freudenberger
Lucky Girls. Ecco, 2003.
The Dissident. Ecco, 2006.
Ifeona Fulani
Seasons of Dust. Harlem River Press, 1993.
Rita Gabis
The Wild Field. Alice James Books, 1994.
Cassandra Garbus
Solo Variations. Dutton/Penguin, 1998.
Danielle Legros Georges
Maroon. Curbstone Press, 2001.
Lise Goett
Waiting for the Paraclete. Beacon Press, 2002.
David Grand
Louse. Arcade, 1989.
The Disappearing Body. Harvest Books, 2003.
Stephanie Grant
The Passion of Alice. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Map of Ireland. Scribner, 2008.
Nora Hague
Letters from an Age of Reason. HarperCollins, 2001.
A.M. Homes
Jack. Macmillan, 1989.
The Safety of Objects. Random House, 1991
In the Country of Mothers. Knopf, 1993.
The End of Alice. Scribner, 1996
Appendix A: an elaboration on the novel The End of Alice. Scribner, 1996.
Music for Torching. Harper Perennial, 1999
Things You Should Know. Harper Perennial, 2002.
This Book Will Save Your Life. Viking Adult, 2006.
The Mistress's Daughter. Penguin, 2007.
Maria Jacketti
trans. Pablo Neruda: Heaven Stones. Cross Cultural Communication.
Tyehimba Jess
African American Pride: Celebrating Our Achievements, Contributions, and Enduring Legacy. Citadel, 2004.
Leadbelly. Verse Press, 2005.
Rachel Kadish
From a Sealed Room. Putnam, 1998.
Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story. Mariner Books, 2007.
Julia Kasdorf
Sleeping Preacher. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
Eve’s Striptease. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Tsipi Keller
trans. Dan Pagis' Last Poems. QRL, 1991.
The Reverse Turn of the Heart. Sifriat Poalim, 1995.
Leverage. Sifriat Poalim, 1997.
Translation from the Hebrew of Irit Katzir's And I Wrote Poems. Carmel 1999.
Jackpot. Spuyten Duyvil, 2004.
Retelling. Spuyten Duyvil, 2006.
Jennifer Knox
A Gringo Like Me. Soft Skull Press, 2005.
Sharon Kraus
Generation. Alice James Books, 1997.
Mari L’Esperance
The Darkened Temple. University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Strangers in a Homeland. Chapbook. Ashland University: Ashland Poetry Press, 2001.
Invisible Sister. Many Mountains Moving Press book, 2004.
Identity Papers. Ghost Road Press, 2006.
Dana Levin
In the Surgical Theatre. American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, 1999.
Wedding Day. Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
Sabra Loomis
The Rose Tree. Alice James Books, 1989.
House Held Together by Winds. Harper Perennial, 2008.
Allison Lynn
Now You See It: A Novel. Touchstone, July 2004.
Mary Ann McFadden
Eye of the Blackbird. Four Way Books, 1997.
Molly McQuade
An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets and Things in Between. Sarabande Books, 1999.
Barbarism. Four Way Books, 2000.
The Long Meanwhile: Stories of Arrival and Departure. Hourglass Books, 2007.
Pearson Marx
On the Way to the Venus de Milo. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Donna Masini
About Yvonne. W.W. Norton, 1997.
That Kind of Danger. Beacon Press, 1994.
Turning to Fiction. W.W. Norton, 2006.
Jillian Medoff
Hunger Point. Harper Collins, 1998.
Good Girls Gone Bad. Avon A, 2003.
Ana Menéndez
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Grove Press, 2001.
Loving Che. Grove Press, 2003.
Ellen Miller
Like Being Killed. Penguin, 1998.
Katherine Mosby
Private Altars. Random House, 1995.
The Book of Uncommon Prayer. Harper San Francisco, 1996.
The Season of Lillian Dawes. Harper Perennial, 2003.
Twilight. Harper Collins, 2005.
Malena Mörling
Ocean Avenue. New Issues Press, 1999.
Astoria. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
Bruce Murphy
Sing, Sing, Sing. NYU Press, 1991.
Yannick Murphy
Stories in Another Language. Knopf, 1987.
The Sea of Trees. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Here They Come. McSweeney's Books, 2006.
Ahwoooooooo. Clarion Books, 2006.
Signed, Mata Hari. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
Meera Nair
Video: Stories. Pantheon, April 2002.
Daniel Nester
God Save My Queen: A Tribute. Soft Skull Press, April 2003.
God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On. Soft Skull Press, September 2004.
Gregory Pardlo
Totem. APR, 2007.
Emily Raboteau
The Professor's Daughter. Henry Holt, 2005.
Jane Ransom
Without Asking. Story Line Press, 1989.
Bye-Bye. Washington Square Books, 1999.
Scene of the Crimee. Story Line Press, 1998.
Jan Richman
Because the Brain Can be Talked into Anything. Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
Agnes Rossi
Athletes and Artists: Stories. NYU Press, 1987.
The Quick. W. W. Norton, 1992.
Split Skirt. Random House, 1994.
The Houseguest. Plume, 2000.
Kerri Sakamoto
The Electrical Field. Knopf Canada, 1998.
One Hundred Million Hearts. Harvest Books, 2005.
Elissa Schappell
Use Me. William Morrow, 2000.
Jason Schneiderman
Sublimation Point. Four Way Books, 2004.
Ben Schrank
Miracle Man. William Morrow, 1999.
Consent. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003.
Lisa Sewell
The Way Out: Poems. Alice James Books, 1998.
Name Withheld. Four Way Books, 2006.
Lara Stapleton
The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing. Aunt Lute Books, 1998.
Darin Strauss
Chang and Eng. Dutton Adult, 2000
The Real McCoy. Plume Books, 2003.
More Than it Hurts You. Dutton Adult, 2008
Hwee Hwee Tan
Foreign Bodies. Persea, 1997.
Richard Tayson
The Apprentice of Fever. Kent State University Press, 1998.
Look Up for Yes. Viking Penguin, 1998.
The World Underneath. Kent State University Press, 2008.
Holly Thompson
Ash: A Novel. Stone Bridge Press, 2001.
Jonathan Tropper
Plan B. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
The Book of Joe. Delta, 2005.
Everything Changes. Delta, 2006.
How to Talk to a Widower. Bantam Discovery, 2008.
Kate Walbert
Where She Went. Sarabande, 1998.
The Gardens of Kyoto. Scribner, 2002.
Our Kind. Scribner, 2004.
Courtney Weaver
Unzipped. Headline, 1999.
Debra Weinstein
Rodent Angel: Poems. New York University Press, April 1996
Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z. Random House, 2004.
Joe Wenderoth
Disfortune. Wesleyan University Press, 1995.
It Is If I Speak. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
Letters to Wendy's. Wave Books, 2000.
The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self. Wave Books, 2005
No Real Light. Wave Books, 2007.
