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