Janine Kovac
Writers Workshops Participant, '11, '12, '14, '16
Her novel-in-progress Proposition has been selected for fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas.
Proposition follows the sex-trafficking epidemic in Oakland from the dual perspective of survivors striving to create a better world for themselves and white-savior activists oblivious to the ways they perpetuate systemic inequality, and is based on her essay, “Dancing on the Blade,” for which she received the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Award for Nonfiction.
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/project-niner Attended with the help of George Pascoe Miller Scholarship, Carlisle Family Scholarship, Eshleman Scholarship
Antonia Angress
Writers Workshop Participant '19
Her debut novel Sirens & Muses will be published by Ballantine/Random House on July 12, 2022. She is on tour promoting the book and will be doing events in Minneapolis, Brooklyn, Cape Cod, Stillwater, MN and Northfield, MN. See her website for more details.
http://antoniaangress.com Attended with the help of O'Dwyer Scholarship
Tara Betts
Poetry Workshop Participant, '09
Her latest full-length poetry collection Refuse to Disappear (Word Works Books, 2022) was selected for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection and is the June 2022 selection for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
https://wordworksbooks.org/product/refuse-to-disappear/ Attended with the help of Cave Canem scholarship
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop Participant, '17
She was a finalist in Phoebe’s 2022 short fiction contest. Her story, “We Can’t Live Without the Birds and Animals,” appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Phoebe.
http://phoebejournal.com/we-cant-live-without-the-birds-and-animals/ Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Corey Campbell
Writers Workshops Participant, '18
Her short story “In a Burning Volcano” appeared in Salamander, issue #53 (Fall/Winter 2021-2022). It was a finalist for the Salamander 2021 Fiction Prize.
Attended with the help of Isobel English Scholarship
Stella Santamaria
Poetry Workshop participant '21
Her “zip ode” was selected as the week 1 spotlight poem for WLRN/ O, Miami Zip Ode Project and featured on air and on instagram for the O, Miami Poetry Festival. She will be reading her poem in the virtual Zip Odes Finale on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 PM ET.
Attended with the help of Ancina Family Scholarship
Daniel Pope
Writers Workshop participant, '19, '21
His short story, “Good Neighbors,” which was chosen as a finalist for the 2021 Narrative 30 Below Contest, was published as a Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine in April 2022.
https://www.danielpopewrites.com/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Stella Santamaria
Poetry Participant, '21
Her poem was selected for the WLRN/ Zip Odes Project for the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
Attended with the help of Ancinas Scholarship
Anna Hogeland
Writers Workshop Participant, '19
Her debut novel, The Long Answer, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House) on June 21, 2022.
http://www.annahogeland.com Attended with the help of UCI scholarship
Ruben Quesada
Poetry Workshop participant '07
He has a new poem “My Mother Is a Garden” in Issue 41 of The Adroit Journal.
https://rubenquesada.com/ Attended with the help of UC Riverside scholarship
Juliana Roth
Screenwriting Workshop participant '17
Her new short film Final Curtain Call, on Radio City Music Hall’s Chief organist Ray Bohr, is in post-production.
http://tinyurl.com/letsplayray Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
Writers Workshops Participant, '14
His new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was published by Beacon Press on January 11, 2022.
https://thomaspruiksma.com/kural Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Erin L. McCoy
Poetry Participant, 2016
Her poem, “How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” was selected by Kaveh Akbar for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. This is McCoy’s second appearance in the Best New Poets anthology.
https://erinlmccoy.com/blog/best-new-poets-anthology-mccoy-poem Attended with the help of Oakley Hall III Memorial Scholarship
Melenie Freedom Flynn
Writers Workshops Participant '09, '10
She is the recipient of a generous 2022 Elizabeth George Foundation grant to support the completion of her memoir about growing up in the backseat of Delilah, her family’s big blue Ford LTD, as they moved back and forth between the Rajneesh Commune in Oregon and Las Vegas during the 1980s.
Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Jung Hae Chae
Writers Workshops Participant, '19
Her essay, “Hole(s),” won the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and appeared in the Winter 2021 issue.
https://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/catching-up-with-2021-crazyhorse-nonfiction-prize-winner-jung-hae-chae/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Martina Clark
Writers Workshops Participant, '13
Her memoir, My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19, has just won an award from POZ Magazine for 2021 Best in Literature. While it holds less literary weight, it does hold high endorsement from the community of people living with HIV which, considering the subject matter of Clark’s memoir and her own life with HIV, it sends a resounding endorsement from a key readership.
http://https://www.poz.com/article/poz-awards-2021-winners Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Jan Verberkmoes
Poetry Participant, '17
Her debut poetry collection, Firewatch, will be published by Fonograf Editions on December 7th, 2021.
https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/f0no17-jan-verberkmoes-firewatch-print-book/ Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Meghan Robins
Writers Workshops Participant, '15
Her short essay “Being a Woman is Like Making French Onion Soup” won first place in the WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest.
http://https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/100-FE1-Q32021EssayContest.html Attended with the help of Alexander Cushing Memorial Scholarship for Locals
Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Writer's Workshop Participant, '17
Her piece “On Teaching at the End of the World” was recently published in Literary Hub’s series “Teaching Through a Pandemic” on October 18, 2021.
https://lithub.com/on-teaching-at-the-end-of-the-world/ Attended with the help of Ancinas Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
Her short story, “Dead Eddie” will be in the 150th anniversary anthology of the Elm Leaves Journal out of Buffalo State.
https://www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/2021/3/20/q-and-a-novelist-marcia-butler-on-the-writers-process-finding-inspiration-and-moose Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation scholarship
Stella Santamaria
Poetry Workshop Participant (Virtual Valley), 2021
Two of Stella Santamaria’s poems were published in The Acentos Review, September 2021 issue after attending Community of Writers, Poetry Program in the Summer of 2021 in the Virtual Valley.
http://www.acentosreview.com/September2021/ Attended with the help of the Ancinas Family Scholarship
Martina Clark
Writers Workshops Participant, '13
Martina Clark’s memoir, My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19, is being published by Northampton House Press and comes out October 5th, 2021. This memoir was her workshop piece in 2013.
http://martina-clark.com Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship
Debra A. Daniel
Writers Workshops Participant, '01
Debra A. Daniel’s novella-in-flash, A Family of Great Falls, was short listed for the Bath Novella-in-flash Award 2021, and was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in the UK. Two of her pieces were also shortlisted for the Smokelong Quarterly Mikey Award, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and long listed for the Reflex Fiction Award.
http://adhocfiction.com Attended with the help of Nona Stuck Fiction Scholarship
David Mills
Poetry Participant, '21
His poetry collection, Boneyarn, was a June bestseller at Small Press Distribution. This collection is the first book of poems about slavery in New York City, where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located. If you are interested in a signed copy, you can email David at edgarallanpoit@yahoo.com. Boneyarn is also available at Small Press Distribution and Amazon.
https://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/60066/Poetry-Bestsellers-June-2021.aspx Attended with the help of Veteran's Poetry Scholarship
Antonio Lopez
Poetry Participant '17
His debut collection of poetry, Gentefication, is coming out through Four Way Books September 15, 2021. It was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Larry Levis Prize in Poetry.
https://fourwaybooks.com/site/gentefication/ Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Scholarship
Corey Campbell
Writers Workshops Participant, '18
Her short story “Outside the Mayan” recently appeared in Story Issue 10.
Attended with the help of Isobel English Scholarship
Nawaaz Ahmed
Writers Workshops Participant, '11
His debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change in Obama-era San Francisco and Texas, was published by Counterpoint Press on August 3, 2021.
https://www.nawaazahmed.com Attended with the help of Ford scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshop Participant: '11, '12, '14, '16
Her essay “Dancing on the Blade” won the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Nonfiction and appears in the spring 2021 issue of Under the Sun.
https://underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2021/dancing-on-the-blade/ Attended with the help of 2011: George Pascoe Miller; 2012: Carlisle Family; 2014: Eshleman Scholarship
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop Participant, '17
Her short story “Patroness” appears in the latest issue of Pacifica Literary Review.
http://www.pacificareview.com/2021/05/13/patroness-lauren-barbato/ Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Tracy Fuad
Poetry Participant '17
Her debut collection of poetry, about:blank, was chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2021. The book is available for pre-sale now.
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822966685/ Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Poetry Participant, '19
An artifact of erasure at once poetry and visual art, Her Read, a graphic poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth will be published in full color and hardback by Texas Review Press in June, 2021. In the tradition of reusing canvases, with correction fluid, scalpel & embroidery floss, Steinorth transforms a tome of art criticism, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read, into feminist verse. Though the maternal body appears with frequency in Read’s illustrated text which spans from prehistory to the modern age, he includes zero female artists. Her Read, a graphic poem, is an excavation of buried voices– a reclamation of bodies framed in gilt & an homage to those whose arts remain unsung.
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680032284/her-read;https://www.jennifersperrysteinorth.com/her-erasure-read Attended with the help of I did (blessedly) receive a scholarship, which made attendance possible, but I cannot seem to locate the name!
K.M. English
Poetry Participant, '16
Her debut full-length collection, Wave Says, was published by Kore Press on May 15, 2021.
http://www.kmenglishpoet.com Attended with the help of Cushing Scholarship!
Shangyang Fang
Poetry Participant, '19
His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in October, 2021.
https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/authors/shangyang-fang/ Attended with the help of The Sharon Olds Honorary Scholarship
Chaney Kwak
Fiction, 2012
His debut memoir, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship, comes out from Godine in June, 2021. A tragicomic story about an (almost) sinking cruise ship, The Passenger journeys from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco.
http://chaneykwak.com/passenger Attended with the help of Scholarship recipient (and I thank The Community's generosity in the book's acknowledgements)
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Poetry Participant, '19
Her new collection, a more perfect Union, (Mad Creek Books, an imprint of Ohio State University Press) was selected by Kathy Fagan for the 2019 OSU Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. It was published in February, 2021 and is available now!
https://www.poetsandparents.com/a-more-perfect-union Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
2020, 2019 Writers Workshops Participant
A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published in the February 2021 issue of Travel + Leisure.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O’Dwyer Scholarship
Stacy D Flood
Writers Workshop Participant, '98
An unanchored traveler meets devastating consequences as he searches for a new life in The Salt Fields, a debut work of prose from Stacy D. Flood, a stark and poignant Southern Gothic novella focused on the African American Great Migration after the Second World War, and a work that will leave readers thinking long after the final page.
https://lanternfishpress.com/catalog/the-salt-fields Attended with the help of Getty Scholarship
Jenny Pritchett
Writers Workshops Participant '04
Her new book, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, was published by Running Press/Hachette in May, 2021. An audiobook is also available.
https://www.jennytrue.com/ Attended with the help of Walker Foundation Scholarship
Yang Huang
Writers Workshops Participant,'19
Her third literary novel, My Good Son, won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize. It was published on April 29, 2021.
“MY GOOD SON is about a tailor named Mr. Cai in post-Tiananmen China and the dreams he holds for his only son, Feng. Mr. Cai schemes with one of his clients, Jude, a gay American expat, to get his son to the States, and the novel, about parental expectations, social class, and sexuality, highlights both the similarities and differences between Chinese and American cultures.”
https://www.yanghuang.com/goodson Attended with the help of Barbara Hall Memorial Scholarship
Anthony Cody
Poetry Participant '18
His debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn), was a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry, Winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, was recently named a 2020 Southwest Book Award Winner from the Regional Border Library Association, longlisted for The Believer Magazine 2020 Editor’s Award in Poetry, and is now a finalist for the Jean Stein Award from PEN/America.
https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/ Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Arisa White
Poetry Participant, 2010
Her new memoir, Who’s Your Daddy, was recently published by Augury Books. Who’s Your Daddy ( is a lyrical, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who, while seeking to define her own place in the world, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father.
“A lyric anthem for the fatherless, for seekers of the places and people that made us, for the artists ready to unearth and reshape their own stories. I gulped this exquisite manual like precious medicine, a spell that made me more myself.” —Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me
https://arisawhite.com/about/ Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop Participant 19, 20
An excerpt from her memoir and photographs appear in the February 2021 issue of Travel + Leisure Magazine.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O’Dwyer Scholarship
Amy Haddad
Poetry Participant
She recently received honorable mention in the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize. She will be awarded $1,000 and her manuscript, An Otherwise Healthy Woman, will be published in the spring of 2022. Haddad is a nurse, ethicist and poet who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for 30 years.
http:// Attended with the help of NA
Laura Cresté
Poetry Participant '20
Her chapbook, You Should Feel Bad, was selected by Stephanie Burt for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and was published in November 2020.
https://poetrysociety.org/shop/chapbooks/you-should-feel-bad Attended with the help of Sharon Olds Honorary Scholarship
Antonia Angress
Writers Workshop Participant, '19
Her debut novel Sirens & Muses will be published by Ballantine/Random House in 2022.
http://antoniaangress.com Attended with the help of the O'Dwyer Scholarship
Regina Louise
Writers Workshops Participant '01, '14; Screenwriting Participant, '03
Her new book, Permission Granted: Kickass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love, will be published by New World Library in June, 2021. Permission Granted illustrates proven paths from “you couldn’t possibly” to “just watch me!” Regina Louise puts a unique spin on tried-and-true techniques of personal growth, coaching readers to deeply understand who they are and what they have been through. From this self-awareness, they can move into self-compassion and learn to give themselves the care and support they may have lacked.
https://www.iamreginalouise.com/ Attended with the help of UC Riverside Scholarship
Jade Yeung
Poetry Participant, '20
She had the honor of reading alongside Patricia Spears Jones, Ali Black, A. Van Jordan, Janice Lowe, Peter Covino, and Michael Broder this year. You can check out the recording here.
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2020/09/16/radical-poetry-reading-with-patricia-spears-jones/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop, '17
Her short story “Fatherhood” appears online in the December 2020 issue of Hobart.
https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/fatherhood Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Anthony Cody
Poetry Participant '18
Anthony Cody’s collection Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), was was longlisted for the 2021 PEN America’s Jean Stein Award, and Anthony was named a 2020 Poets & Writers Debut Poet for that collection. To read about his first book and hear him read form his collection visit www.pw.org or pick up the January/February 2021 edition of Poets and Writers.
https://www.pw.org/content/a_life_in_poetry_our_sixteenth_annual_look_at_debut_poets Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Jenn Alandy Trahan
Writers Workshops Participant, '08, '17
Jenn Alandy Trahan’s short story, “The Freak Winds Up Again,” is the November 2020 issue (#271) of One Story.
https://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&pubcode=os&story_id=271 Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Rhoda Huffey
Writers Workshops Participant, '85/ Writers Workshop staff, 2000 onward
Rhoda Huffey’s novel 31 Paradiso will be published by Delphinium Books in the spring of 2022.
http:// Attended with the help of attended on UCI scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
She judged the 2020 High Plains Book Award for Fiction (winner: Joe Wilkins’ Fall Back Down When I Die). She taught workshops for Hampton Roads Convergence of Writers and the Brandeis National Committee. And she was recently interviewed by Sean Murphy, Executive Director of 1455 Literary Arts, about books, the writing process, and more.
https://youtu.be/WsKXArIen5k Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Lyndsey Ellis
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
Her debut novel, Bone Broth, will be published by Hidden Timber Books in spring 2021. Her short story, “Jazz & Other Words for Love,” appeared in issue 2 of the Community of Writers’ new online literary journal, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly.
http://hiddentimberbooks.com/2020/10/16/bone-broth-cover-reveal/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship (Waimea Williams)
Jabari Jawan Allen
Poetry Workshop participant '18
He will be teaching an advanced poetry workshop on Wednesdays, November 4 – 18, 2020 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MST on Zoom with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Over three sessions, students will explore the erotic god, subversion versus abolition in form, and the contemporization of the sonnet through the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Malachi Black, Phillip B. Williams, Natasha Oladokun, and more. Registration is $109. Learn more and register today at https://piper.asu.edu/classes/jabari-allen/advanced-poetry-workshop
https://piper.asu.edu/classes/jabari-allen/advanced-poetry-workshop Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Scholarship Recipient
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop participant '17
Her essay “What Would You Call It?” appears online at North American Review.
https://northamericanreview.org/ Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Lisa Alvarez
Writers Workshops Teaching Staff; Writers Workshop Participant, '91, '92
Her poem “On the Origin of Karl Marx” appears in So It Goes, the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.
https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/ninth-edition-contributors/ Attended with the help of UCI scholarship and Ancinas scholarship
Tyler McAndrew
Writers Workshop Participant, '19
His short story, “The Storyteller,” recently appeared on The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/fiction/the-storyteller-mcandrew Attended with the help of Gill Dennis Memorial Scholarship
Mariya Zilberman
Poetry Workshop Participant '20
Her poem, “Against Temporality,” won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and will appear in the Winter 2020-2021 issue.
https://twitter.com/pshares/status/1304136321276010497 Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshop participant '11, '12, '14, '16
Her essay “Destination: Okay” will be featured in a new anthology What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories about Premature Birth, due out November, 2020, from Melville House and available now for pre-orders. Subject matter from this essay—specifically the science of language acquisition— was originally workshopped at the Community of Writers in 2011.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647234/what-we-didnt-expect-by-melody-schreiber/ Attended with the help of 2011: George Pascoe Miller Memorial Scholarship; 2012: Carlisle Family Scholarship; 2014: Eschelman Scholarship
Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Writers Workshop Participant '17
She was recently honored as a 2020 Bainbridge Resident for The Seventh Wave, where her latest essay, “Foreign Domestic” is featured in their 11th Issue.
https://theseventhwave.co/foreign-domestic/ Attended with the help of The Ancinas Scholarship
Armen Davoudian
Poetry Workshop participant '18
His chapbook, Swan Song, won the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook competition and is available for pre-order from Bull City Press.
https://bullcitypress.com/product/swan-song-by-armen-davoudian/ Attended with the help of Barbara E. Hall Memorial Scholarship
Khadijah Queen
Poetry Workshop participant '09
Her new book of poetry, Anodyne, will be published by Tin House Books in August, 2020.
Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop participant '14, '19
She recently received 2 gold medals from the NATJA Travel Media Awards. “Painting the Next Chapter,” published in Adventure Journal won gold in Lifestyle, Personality & Profiles and “What It’s Like to Break Bread in the Desert” in Saveur Magazine won gold in Family Travel.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O’Dwyer Scholarship
Anthony Cody
Poetry Participant '18
His debut Borderland Apocrypha was recently published in April 2020 with Omnidawn. The collection was the winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. In her citation Berssenbrugge writes, “Intense feeling, empathy, rage, compassion swerves language, torques the page. History and data inflict. Intelligence composes, sequence wrestles with violence. It must be witnessed, expressed. The love is expression. Witness is form.” The collection is now available for purchase.
https://www.omnidawn.com/product/borderland-apocrypha/ Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
She has an essay in the upcoming anthology, Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19, published by Central Avenue. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, helping indie booksellers in need.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation scholarship
Kris Newby
Writers Workshop participant '17
She was recently awarded a Nautilus Award (Silver) for her book Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. With a Kirkus starred review, it was also listed as one of the “best books of 2019” by Bookworm and Stanford Medicine, as well as the #1 book in public health by BookAuthority.
http://www.krisnewby.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Maxima Kahn
Poetry Participant, '07; Writers Workshops Participant '06, '10
Her first full-length collection of poems, Fierce Aria, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in summer 2020.
https://brilliantplayground.com Attended with the help of Mary Turnbull Scholarship
Elison Alcovendaz
Writers Workshop participant '16
His flash fiction piece, “The Assimilation of Boyboy Santos” (originally published in Lost Balloon magazine), was selected for inclusion in the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology.
http://elisonalcovendaz.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Elizabeth Kadetsky
Writers Workshop Participant, '98, '04; Alumni Reader, '04
Her fourth book, The Memory Eaters, winner of the first Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in March 2020. She is currently undertaking her second Fulbright fellowship to India.
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Eaters-Juniper-Creative-Nonfiction/dp/162534502X Attended with the help of UCI scholarship
Alia Volz
Writers Workshops Participant, '11, '14
Her debut memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2020.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780358006091 Attended with the help of Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship; Oakley "Tad" Hall Prose Scholarship
Susan M. Gaines
Writers Workshop Participant '94; Alumni Reading Series (Carbon Dreams) '01
Her new novel, Accidentals, was published by Torrey House Press in March, 2020.
http://susanmgaines.com Attended with the help of Scholarship
Khadijah Queen
Poetry Workshop participant '09
Her new book of poetry, Anodyne, will be published by Tin House Books in August, 2020.
Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Clancy McGilligan
Writers Workshop Participant '17
His novella, History of an Executioner, was published in January, 2020, by Miami University Press after winning the 2019 Novella Prize.
https://www.clancymcgilligan.com/novella Attended with the help of SpringCreek Foundation Scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshops Participant '11, '12, '14, '16
Hers memoir, Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home, workshopped at Squaw Valley in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016, was awarded the 2019 National Indie Excellence Award for memoir.
https://www.janinekovac.com/spinning Attended with the help of George Pascoe Miller Scholarship ('11), Carlisle Family Scholarship ('12), Eshleman Scholarship ('14)
Lisa D Alvarez
Writers Workshop participant, '92, '93; Staff since '96.
Her poem “9 Line Cento for Now” was recently published by “What Rough Beast.”
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-november-15-2019/?fbclid=IwAR26heq8D1sxuyq7LGCMSDGJfJDPiiGpvDKHIkPg_gcBKQOiYHqsmCfd2J8 Attended with the help of UCI and the Ancinas scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshop participant '19
Her debut novel, Happy Like This, will be published by University of Iowa Press in October, 2019.
Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshop participant '19
She was recently named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, a prize that aims to “recognize young, debut fiction writers whose work promised to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” Her debut novel, Happy Like This, will be published on October 15, 2019 from University of Iowa Press.
https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/5-under-35-2019/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Olga Zilberbourg
Writers Workshops Participant, '10
Her English-language debut Like Water and Other Stories was published by WTAW Press in September, 2019, and received a glowing review from The Moscow Times.
https://zilberbourg.com/2019/08/27/review-of-like-water-in-the-moscow-times/ Attended with the help of The Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshops Participant, '19
Her short story collection, Happy Like This, won Iowa’s 2019 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be released on October 15, 2019.
https://ashleywurzbacher.com/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Jenn Alandy Trahan
Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '17
Her short story, “They Told Us Not to Say This,” published in Harper’s Magazine in September 2018, was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019.
http:// Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Yoav Potash
Writers Workshops Participant, '05, '08
The American Jewish Press Association is honoring Yoav Potash with a Simon Rockower Award for Best Personal Essay, for his piece titled “How I learned all Israelis are not my father,” published by J. The Jewish News of Northern California. The American Jewish Press Association bills the Rockower Awards as “the Jewish Pulitzers.”
https://www.jweekly.com/2018/04/05/broke-israels-thorny-exterior-tasted-sweet-center/ Attended with the help of Entrenkin Foundation Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
Her novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, (HarperCollins, 2018) won the Western Writers of America Spur Award, in the category of Best Western Contemporary Novel, and was chosen as an Honor Book for the Montana Book Award.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Clancy McGilligan
Writers Workshop Participant '17
His novella History of an Executioner won the 2019 Novella Prize from Miami University Press, and will be published in 2020.
http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/mupress/novella/ Attended with the help of SpringCreek Foundation Scholarship
Grace Shuyi Liew
Poetry participant '16
Her debut collection of poetry, Careen, was published by Noemi Press in April 2019.
http://graceungrateful.com Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Memorial scholarship
Shira Dentz
Poetry Participant
Her fourth book, the sun a blazing zero, is now out from Lavender Ink/Diálogos.
https://www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/the-sun-a-blazing-zero/?v=7516fd43adaa Attended with the help of Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshops Participant, '09
Her novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in the category of Best Western Contemporary Novel, and was chosen as an Honor Book for the Montana Book Award. She was additionally awarded a Hawthornden International Fellowship and will spend a month writing at the Hawthornden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Scholarship
Juan Alvarado Valdivia
Writers Workshops Participant '13
His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in February 2019.
https://unmpress.com/books/ballad-slopsucker/9780826360571 Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Juliana Roth
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
Her screenplay for her film in independent development, What We Know, which follows a sexual assault survivor as she navigates the Title IX process, is a semifinalist in the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition and a finalist in the 2019 Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York. The crowdfunding campaign for the film is accepting donations until mid-March on Seed & Spark.
www.seedandspark.com/fund/whatweknowfilm Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Kate Wisel
Writers Workshop Participant '16
Her first book of short stories, Driving in Cars With Homeless Men, has won the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which includes a substantial cash prize and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She was selected by judge Min Jin Lee.
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/books/9780822945680/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Stephanie Austin
Writer's Workshop Participant, '12
Her short story “Carrion” will be in the spring 2019 issue of Pembroke Magazine. Her flash fiction piece “Stray” will appear in the June issue of the Jellyfish Review.
Attended with the help of Joe Heinrich Scholarship
Alex Luke
Writers Workshops Participant, '18
Her short story “Sweet Blood” was published in Issue 18 of SAND Journal, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
http:///sandjournal.com/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship
Dedria A. Humphries Barker
Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '15
Dedria Humphries Barker’s creative nonfiction book, Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man’s Widow, will be published in April 2019 by 2Leaf Press (distributed by The University of Chicago Press). In which four generations of black women recall their daring 19th century white matriarch, it is the story of Barker’s great-grandmother, Alice Donlan Johnson.
http://www.DedriaBarker.com Attended with the help of a community of writers tuition waiver.
Maxima Kahn
Poetry Participant, '07, Writers Workshops Participant, '06, '10
Her poems have appeared this year or are forthcoming in Sweet, The Louisville Review and Orbis Journal, and she was nominated for Best of the Net. Her essays appeared in Just How Cool Is That, The Creative Penn, Tiny Buddha and Positively Positive.
https://BrilliantPlayground.com Attended with the help of Mary Turnbull Scholarship 2010
Angel Garcia
Poetry Workshop Participant '12
His new book of poetry, Teeth Never Sleep, was published in November, 2018, by University of Arkansas Press.
Attended with the help of the UC Riverside Scholarship.
Ruben Quesada
Poetry Workshop Participant '07
His new book of poetry, Revelations, will be published in November, 2018, by Sibling Rivalry Press.
Attended with the help of he UC Riverside Scholarship.
Kenji Liu
Poetry Workshop Participant '14
His new collection of poetry, Monsters I Have Been, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2019.
http://www.kenjiliu.com/ Attended with the help of the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship.
Vickie Vértiz
Poetry Participant, '14
Her book, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, won the 2018 PEN America prize for poetry. The prize is for an outstanding book of poetry published in 2017 west of the Mississippi River. Read more in the LA Times feature here.
http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-pen-award-winners-20180927-story.html Attended with the help of the Ancinas Scholarship (Writers Workshops) and Lucille Clifton Scholarship (Poetry Workshop).
Christine Granados
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her second book of fiction, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, which was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2017, won the 2017 Writer’s League of Texas Fiction Discovery Prize in April 2018. The book received Honorable Mention for Best Latino Focused Fiction Book in English from the 2018 International Latino Book Award. Fight Like a Man was also the winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Book Award.
http://www.ktep.org/post/words-wire-christine-granados Attended with the help of the Ancinas Family Scholarship.
Alex Espinoza
Writers Workshop Participant '04, '05, Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '13, '15, '17
His newest book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, will be published in June, 2019, by Unnamed Press.
http://www.alexespinoza.com/ Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship for MFAs.
Alicia Upano
Writers Workshop participant '12
She won the 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Competition for her novel, Big Music.
Attended with the help of the Mohr Scholarship.
Kirsten Whatley
Writers Workshops Participant, '06
Kirsten Whatley’s short nonfiction piece, “Only Moths,” appeared in PANK‘s Spring/Summer 2018 online issue, and was subsequently translated into Italian. Two of her Hawaii-based food stories recently appeared in AFAR (May 2018) and Saveur (Fall 2018).
http://www.kirstenwhatley.com Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Margaret C. Murray
Screenwriters Workshop, '87
In late September, she launched her 4th novel, Pillow Prayers—Love Ruined, Love Reborn after the Summer of Love, at Fourth Street Fine Art Cooperative in Berkeley, CA where much of her story takes place.
http://writewordspress.com/category/upcoming-book/ Attended with the help of National Endowment for the Arts
Jen Beagin
Writers Workshop participant '11
She recently made the short list for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship for MFAs.
Wayétu Moore
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her new novel, She Would Be King, was released from Graywolf Press on September 11, 2018. She will be joining us next summer for our Published Alumni Reading Series.
https://www.wayetu.com/ Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Poetry Workshop, 2015
Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, will be published by Ecco Books in September, 2018.
http://emily-yoon-poetry.tumblr.com/ Attended with the help of the W C & F Scholarship.
Joanna Solfrian
Poetry Participant, '06
Her second collection, The Mud Room, will be published by MadHat Press in 2019.
http://www.joannasolfrian.com/ Attended with the help of a scholarship and and a work-waiver.
Ama Codjoe
Poetry Participant, '15
Her poem “Etymology of a Mood” was selected by Natasha Trethewey for the Georgia Review‘s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.
https://mailchi.mp/uga/amacodjoe?e=3f09b85e0a Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop Participant ,'14
Her essay “K’E YIL YAL TX’I: SAYING SOMETHING,” first published in Alpinist Magazine and a Bronze medalist in the Family Travel category of the 2018 Solas Awards, was selected for Waymaking, an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape, available now from Vertebrate Publishing. Her story “On the Line” was selected for Grace in Darkness, an anthology of metro D.C. women, available now from American University.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O'Dwyer Scholarship
Samantha Thornhill
Poetry Workshop, 2009
Her third children’s book, A Card for My Father, was published in May, 2018, by Penny Candy Books.
http://samanthaspeaks.com/ Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop Participant '17
Her short story “Old Girls, or, The Ordinary Adventure” was published in the spring 2018 issue of The Hopkins Review. Her short story “Former Marys” was also published in the spring 2018 issue of Blackbird.
http://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/old-girls-or-the-ordinary-adventure/ Attended with the help of The Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Akil Kumarasamy
Writers Workshops Participant, '15
Akil Kumarasamy’s debut novel, Half Gods, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2018.
http://akilk.com Attended with the help of The Eshleman Scholarship
Teresa (T) Stores
Writers Workshop Participant '04
Her collection of short fiction, Frost Heaves, will be published by Green Writers Press in April 2018. This is her fourth book and her first collection of stories.
Attended with the help of Sallie Bell Scholarship
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Poetry Participant, '15
Her full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, is available for pre-order from the Harper Collins website and Amazon. The official release is September 18, 2018.
http:// Attended with the help of WC&C Scholarship
Jennifer Haupt
Writers Workshop Participant '09, '13
Her debut novel, In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills, was published on April 2, 2018, by Central Avenue Publishing.
http://jenniferhaupt.com/author/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Poetry Participant, '15
Her poem “Autopsy” was published by The New York Times Magazine in March 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/magazine/poem-autopsy.html Attended with the help of WC&C Scholarship
Dylan Brie Ducey
Writers Workshop Participant, '15
Her two flashes, “Disorder” and “The Mother Knocks Again, Louder This Time” appeared in The Occulum in August, 2017. Also, a short story, “Jaconita,” appeared in Four Way Review in November, 2017.
https://www.dylanbrieducey.com/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ben Hinshaw
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
His story ‘Brazil and Back’ appeared in the Fall/Winter 2017 issue of The Carolina Quarterly. Elsewhere, his story ‘Queen of the Forest’ placed third in the 2017 Bridport Short Story Prize, and his collection Exactly What You Mean won the 2017 Maurice Prize in Fiction. In January 2018, Ben received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
http://benhinshaw.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
David Dixon
Poetry Participant '17
His poem “Noel Reeks of Bleach,” was recently published in the winter 2018 issue of Blue Streak, a poetry journal from Military Experience & the Arts. He wrote this poem during his time in Squaw Valley for his session with staff poet Forrest Gander.
http://militaryexperience.org/blue-streak-a-journal-of-military-poetry-vol-2/ Attended with the help of Veteran's scholarship
Michael Andreasen
Writers Workshop Participant '07, Published Alumni '18
His debut collection The Sea Beast Takes a Lover was published February 28, 2018, by Dutton. Michael will be returning to Squaw Valley this summer as a part of the Published Alumni Reading Series.
Attended with the help of UCI Scholarship
Ramona Ausubel
Writers Workshop Participant '07, '12
Her new novel Awayland will be released from Riverhead Books this month.
http://ramonaausubel.com/ Attended with the help of UC Irvine Scholarship
Hilary Zaid
Writers Workshop Participant, '12
Her debut novel, Paper is White, was published in March 2018 from Bywater Books.
http://www.paperiswhite.com/ Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Analicia Sotelo
Poetry Participant, '16
Her first full-length of collection of poetry, Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, was recently published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018.
http://analiciasotelo.com Attended with the help of The Rebecca Osheroff Honorary Memorial Scholarship
Kenji C. Liu
Poetry Participant, '14
His second full-length poetry collection, Monsters I Have Been, which frankensteins news articles, legal documents, and other texts to explore a range of masculinities, will be published by Alice Jones Books in Spring 2019. Selections from the new book have recently been published in two literary journals: Apogee and Anomaly.
http://www.kenjiliu.com Attended with the help of Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship
Michael David Lukas
Writers Workshop Participant '09
His second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, will be published March 13, 2018, by Spiegel and Grau.
http://michaeldavidlukas.com/ Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Wayétu Moore
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her debut novel, She Would Be King, will be released in September 2018 from Graywolf Press.
https://www.wayetu.com/ Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship
Hilary Zaid
Writers Workshop Participant, '12
Her debut novel, Paper is White, will be be released on March 13, 2018 from Bywater Books.
http://www.paperiswhite.com Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Sara Borjas
Writers Workshop Participant '13
Her debut collection of poetry, We Are Too Big for This House, will be published in 2019 by Noemi Press as part of the Akrilica Series.
http://http://www.noemipress.org/catalog/akrilica/ Attended with the help of UC Riverside Scholarship
Rachel Howard
Writers Workshop Participant, '13, Writers Workshop Staff, '17
Her novel The Risk of Us sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for publication in Spring 2019. It’s about a woman who longs to be a mother; the troubled child she and her husband take in from the foster care system; the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage; and the limits of human empathy coupled with the joys of new parenthood, and was pitched as appealing to fans of Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk, and Sheila Heti.
http://www.rachelhoward.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Scholarship
Michael Andreasen
Writers Workshops Participant, '07
His debut collection The Sea Beast Takes a Lover will be available February 28, 2018, from Dutton. The collection features stories that have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Quarterly West. “Andreasen has the soul of a poet and the heart of a yarn spinner; he breathes new life into familiar tropes via the ingenuity of his storytelling and his tendency to color outside the lines. The 11 refreshing stories in this debut collection are full of delicious detours, and ultimately they’re the point.” –Publisher’s Weekly
http:// Attended with the help of UCI Irvine Scholarship
Glen David Gold
Writers Workshops Participant, '96, '97 / Writers Workshops Teaching Staff
His memoir I Will Be Complete will be published by Knopf in June 2018.
Attended with the help of The UC Irvine Scholarship
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Poetry Participant, '15
Emily Jungmin Yoon’s first full-length collection of poetry, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, will be published by Ecco Books this September.
http://emily-yoon-poetry.tumblr.com/ Attended with the help of WC&C Scholarship.
Dave Essinger
Writers Workshops Participant, '09
His new novel Running Out was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in June 2017.
http://dave-essinger.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship.
Gene Berson
poetry participant, '17
His book, raveling travel, was published by Open Book Press. The book contains several poems recently published in Sisyphuslitmag.org, the winter issue of Canarylitmag.org, and Red Fez.
http://THEOPENBOOKPRESS.COM Attended with the help of the Alexander Cushing Memorial Scholarship for Locals.