Monica Sok
Poetry participant '15Her debut collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On, was published by Copper Canyon Press in February, 2020.
Omnium Gatherum: Alumni & Teaching Staff News
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Writers Workshop teaching staff '18, '19Her novel, The Revisioners, recently won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction.
Elizabeth Tallent
Writers Workshop teaching staff '16, '18Her new memoir, Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism, was published in February, 2020, by HarperCollins.
Lisa Alvarez
Writers Workshop participant; Co-Director of the Fiction Workshop.Her poem, “Imagining my Grandmother on the Laredo Bridge, 1917,” was recently published in the Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
Shira Dentz
Poetry Workshop Participant '05Her fifth book, Sisyphusina (PANK Books), a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music centered on female aging is available now. By deviating from formal classical construction, and using the recurring image of a rose, Sisyphusina circles around conventions of beauty, questioning traditional aesthetic values of continuity, coherence, and symmetry. The interweaving of multi-media collaborations, the author’s voice and voices from other sources imbue this book with a porous texture, and reimagines the boundary of THE BOOK as a membrane. Advance praise from Jenny Boully, M. NourbeSe Philip, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Carla Harryman, & artist Kay Rosen.
April Dávila
Writers Workshop participant '18Her new novel, 142 Ostriches, was published in February, 2020, by Kensington.
Jeff Bens
Writers Workshop ParticipantHis new novel, The Mighty Oak, will be out in September 2020 from Blackstone Publishing.
Danusha Lameris
Poetry Workshop participant '00Her new collection of poetry, Bonfire Opera, was published in March, 2020, by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Cai Emmons
Writers Workshop '93, '94, '97, Teaching Staff 2010Her short story collection, Vanishing, won the 2019 Leapfrog Fiction Contest, and was published in March, 2020. Sinking Islands, the sequel to her novel Weather Women, will be published in early 2021. She is pleased to be an Authors Guild ambassador for the new Portland, Oregon chapter.
Genevieve Kaplan
Poetry Participant '18Her new book of poems, (aviary), was released in March, 2020, by Veliz Books.
Monica Sok
Poetry Workshop participant '15Her poem “Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me” was featured on Poets.org‘s Poem-A-Day on February 20, 2020
Bill Pieper
Writers Workshop Participant '10His new book, Borders and Boundaries, was published by Cold River Press in March, 2020.
Terence Clarke
Writers Workshop participant '72, '73His newest novel, the second in a trilogy, When Clara was Twelve, was published in March, 2020.
Jessica Guzman
Poetry Participant, '18Her collection Adelante was chosen by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize and was published by Switchback Books in March, 2020.
Susan M. Gaines
Writers Workshop Participant '94; Alumni Reading Series (Carbon Dreams) '01Her new novel, Accidentals, was published by Torrey House Press in March, 2020.
Attended with the help of Scholarship
Anthony Mohr
Writers Workshop Participant '08His essay “The Fairest of the Fair” appeared in Streetlight Magazine.
Andrew Altschul
Writers Workshops Participant, '97His third novel, The Gringa, was published in March, 2020, by Melville House.
Cathy Park Hong
Poetry Workshop Teaching Staff '11, '16Her new book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, will be published by One World on February 25, 2020.
Aimee Liu
Writers Workshop participant '94Her new novel, Glorious Boy, which will be published by Red Hen Press in May, 2020, was recently selected by Good Housekeeping as one of the best books of 2020.
Meryl Natchez
Poetry Workshop participant '13, '09, '05, '00, '88Hew new book of poetry, Catwalk, will be published by Longship Press in June, 2020.
Lynne Thompson
Poetry Workshop participant '97, '02Her poem “She Talk Like This ‘Cause Me Mum Born Elsewhere, Say!” was recently selected by Paisley Rekdal for 2020 Best American Poetry.
Khadijah Queen
Poetry Workshop participant '09Her new book of poetry, Anodyne, will be published by Tin House Books in August, 2020.
Attended with the help of Cave Canem Scholarship
Caroline Kim
Writers Workshops Participant, '18, '19Her short story collection, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, won the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2020.
Christine Hemp
Poetry Workshop participant '06Her forthcoming memoir, Wild Ride Home: Love, Loss, and a Little White Horse, was published by Arcade/Skyhorse Publishing on February 4th, 2020.
Jeff Adams
Writers Workshop '19His short story, “The Citron Tree,” will appear in the Spring 2020 issue of The McNeese Review.
Dani Burlison
Writers Workshop Participant, '12Her short story collection, Some Places Worth Leaving, was published by Tolsun Books in February 2020.
