Samantha Thornhill
Poetry Workshop, 2009Her third children’s book, A Card for My Father, was published in May, 2018, by Penny Candy Books.
Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
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Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Blas Falconer
Poetry Workshop Participant '12, '16His new book of poetry, Forgive the Body This Failure, will be released late this summer by Four Way Books.
Regina Louise
Writers Workshop participant '01, '14Her memoir, Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, will be released by Agate Bolden in July, 2018.
Ama Codjoe
Poetry Participant '15Her poem “My Nothings” was recently featured as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day.
Lise Goett
Poetry Participant, '86, '87, '88, '92, '94, '06Her second book of poetry, Leprosarium, was recently published by Tupelo Press.
Laurie Ann Doyle
Her new book of stories, World Gone Missing, was released by Regal House press in Fall 2017. She teaches writing at The San Francisco Writers Grotto and UC Berkeley.
Anne Ray
Writers Workshop Participant, '06In collaboration with actors Sean McIntyre and Emily Shain, Anne Ray is teaching a workshop on performance for writers of prose, at NYC’s Playwright’s Horizon Theater School, May 19-20.
Sommer Schafer
Writers Workshops Participant '13Her short story, “Mary and the Machine,” appears in the Spring 2018 issue of North American Review.
Josh Weil
Writers Workshop Staff '17His 2017 short story collection The Age of Perpetual Light was awarded the California Book Award in Fiction.
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop Participant '17Her 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.
Attended with the help of The Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Michelle Ruiz Keil
Writers Workshop 2014She sold her debut novel All of Us With Wings to Amara Hoshijo at Soho Teen for publication in June, 2019.
