Threa Almontaser
Poetry Workshop participant '19Her upcoming book of poetry, The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press, April, 2021), was recently awarded the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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Gwen Goodkin
Writers Workshops Participant, '07, '11Her short story collection, A Place Remote, was published in September, 2020, by West Virginia University Press.
Tyler McAndrew
Writers Workshop Participant, '19His short story, “The Storyteller,” recently appeared on The Baffler.
Attended with the help of Gill Dennis Memorial Scholarship
Caitlin McCarthy
Screenwriters Workshop Participant, '13Her feature screenplay Wonder Drug is now in the works with producer Stephen Nemeth, who she met at the Community of Writers Screenwriters Workshop when he was a featured guest speaker. Director Tom Gilroy will direct the film.
Kimberly Sheridan
Writers Workshop Participant ‘19Her essay, “Restoration,” was published by Entropy Magazine.
Inderjeet Mani
Writers Workshops Participant, '00His novel, Toxic Spirits (Calumet Editions, 2019), set in Thailand, is now being translated into multiple languages. Reviews have included “A complex and enthralling international intrigue with a treasure of remarkable detail” (Frederick Barthelme) and “Mani tells his story in taut, highly descriptive prose, capturing his Thai setting’s cornucopia of sights and tastes” (Kirkus).
Lev Grossman
Writers Workshop Participant '94His novel for children, The Silver Arrow, was published in September by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Mariya Zilberman
Poetry Workshop Participant '20Her poem, “Against Temporality,” won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and will appear in the Winter 2020-2021 issue.
Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Writers Workshop teaching staff '18, '19; Writers Workshops in the Virtual Valley special guest '20She was recently awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction published in 2019 for her novel The Revisioners.
Donna Miscolta
Writers Workshop Participant '98Her third book, Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, was published by Jaded Ibis Press in September, 2020. It was listed in Ms. Magazine’s September 2020 Reads and Parade Magazine’s 20 New Fall Books From Latinx Writers.
Linda Olson
Writers Workshop Participant, '13Her debut memoir, Gone, will be published on October 27, 2020, from She Writes Press.
Vishwas R Gaitonde
Writers Workshops Participant, '14His essay “Lydian Nadhaswaram: From Musician to Actor – and Back” (on a child music prodigy in India making his movie debut) was published in Serenade magazine on Sep 3, 2020.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Poetry Participant, '97, '12Her new biography, Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, was published in September, 2020, by University of Oklahoma Press. Charmian Kittredge London (1871–1955) was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today she is best known as the wife of the famous American author Jack London, yet she was a literary trailblazer in her own right. This biography is the first book to tell the complete story of Charmian’s life—freed from the shadow cast by her famous husband. In this biography, Iris Jamahl Dunkle draws the reader into Charmian’s private and public worlds, underscoring her literary achievements and the significant role she played in promoting her husband’s legacy.
Lucinda Watson
Poetry Workshop Participant '91, '92, '96, '98, '02, '04Her first book of poems, The Favorite, was published by Golden Antelope Press in September, 2020.
A.R. Taylor
Her new novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, was published September 1, 2020 from She Writes Press.
Caroline Kim
Poetry Workshop participant '18, '19Her short story collection, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Prize in Literature, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2020.
