Heather Altfeld
Poetry Workshop participant '08, '10, '12, '15She has recently been awarded the 2019 Orison Poetry Prize for her manuscript Post-Mortem. She will receive a cash prize and publication of her manuscript by Orison Books.
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Mary Freericks
Poetry Workshop participant '89, '91, '00Her second poetry book, Cheer for Freedom, with illustrations of her paintings of her Armenian and Russian family in Iran has been published this year.
Alia Yunis
Writers Workshops Participant '04Her documentary feature, The Golden Harvest, which she wrote and directed, debuted at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in March, 2019, a top 10 international film festival, and was selected as “Best of the Fest” at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in April, 2019.
Adair McPherson
Writers Workshops Participant, '04Her debut picture book, Roadkill abc, was published by Xlibris Press in September, 2018.
Frances Badgett
Fiction Participant '99, '00, '02Her story “Half Hitch” that was published in Salamander in the Summer ’18 edition has been selected for Best of Small Fictions.
Jane Ciabattari
Writers Workshops teaching staff, '16Her new short story collection-in-progress, Arabella Leaves & Other Stories, was a finalist for the Dzanc Short Fiction Award. Her short story “Swarm” was published in The Slag Review on March 1, 2019. Her short story “Brooklyn After the Fall” was included in a flash anthology commissioned for Independent Bookstore Day in 2018, and also published in The Literary Hub.
Peter Marcus
Poetry Workshop participant '89, '90, '91, '92, '95, '11His new book of poetry, Dark Square, was recently published by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press.
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09Her 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.
Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Jeanine Stevens
Poetry Participant '07, '10, '14, '17Her newest book of poems, Limberlost, was released by Future Cycle Press, 2019. Her chapbook of poems, Citadels, is soon to be released by Folded Word Press.
Sharon McElhone
Writers Workshop Participant '06Her first chapter from her collection of personal essays on childcare and immigrant issues is forthcoming in the Label Me Latina/o Fall 2019 issue. The first chapter is entitled “He Imitated a Stiff-Legged Frankenstein.
Lauren K. Alleyne
Poetry Workshop Participant '08She published her second collection of poems, Honeyfish, in April with New Issues Press (US), and in July, with Peepal Tree Press (UK).
Anthony J. Mohr
Writers Workshop participant '08His essay “Super Summer Spectacular” was reprinted in Air (A Hippocampus anthology).
Forrest Gander
His newest book, Be With, was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Shira Dentz
Her new book of poetry, the sun a blazing zero, is one of SPD’s May Handpicks.
Julia Flynn Siler
Writers Workshops Participant, '03, '04, Writers Workshops Teaching StaffShe was interviewed by KQED Forum host Michael Krasny about her new book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Knopf, May 2019). The book was also reviewed in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook section, which called it “meticulously researched and inspiring.”
Janet Fitch
Poetry Workshop participant '17; Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '01, '02, '04, '06, '08, '09, '13, '15, '17She recently celebrated the 2oth anniversary of the publication of White Oleander. It was released in May, 1999 from Back Bay Books.
Alex Espinoza
Writers Workshop Participant '04, '05, Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '13, '15, '17His newest book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, will be published in June, 2019, by Unnamed Press.
Natalie Serber
Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '16Children Are Magic, a story from her novel-in-progress, was just published by One Story.
Varley O’Connor
Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '04, '12; Participant '88, '89Her fifth novel, The Welsh Fasting Girl, will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in May 2019.
Karen Stefano
Writers Workshop Participant '08Her debut memoir, What A Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath, will be published by Rare Bird Books in June 2019.
