Claire Boyles
Writers Workshop Participant '18Her debut short story collection, Site Fidelity, is coming June 15, 2021 from W.W. Norton.
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Monica West
Writers Workshop participant '09, '12Her novel, Revival Season, will be published by Simon and Schuster on June 15, 2021.
Noel Obiora
Writers Workshops Participant, '09,'10His first novel, A Past That Breathes, will be published by Rare Books, Inc on May 11, 2021.
Chaney Kwak
Fiction, 2012His debut memoir, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship, comes out from Godine in June, 2021. A tragicomic story about an (almost) sinking cruise ship, The Passenger journeys from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco.
Attended with the help of Scholarship recipient (and I thank The Community's generosity in the book's acknowledgements)
Josephine Ensign
Writers Workshops Participant, 2013Her forthcoming narrative history book, Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City, (August 3, 2021 pub date) from Johns Hopkins University Press is now available for pre-sale.
Danusha Laméris
Poetry Participant, '00She will be reading on May 16th with Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Donations to this event will benefit the S.H.E. students, young women from the Maasai tribe who have escaped Female Genital Mutilation and early childhood marriage.
Mark Coggins
Writers Workshops Participant 1996, Screenwriting Workshop Participant 2001His newest book, Street Stories, a street photography monograph, will be published by Poltroon Press in May, 2021.
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Poetry Participant, '19Her new collection, a more perfect Union, (Mad Creek Books, an imprint of Ohio State University Press) was selected by Kathy Fagan for the 2019 OSU Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. It was published in February, 2021 and is available now!
Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
2020, 2019 Writers Workshops ParticipantA chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published in the February 2021 issue of Travel + Leisure.
Attended with the help of The O’Dwyer Scholarship
Stacy D Flood
Writers Workshop Participant, '98An unanchored traveler meets devastating consequences as he searches for a new life in The Salt Fields, a debut work of prose from Stacy D. Flood, a stark and poignant Southern Gothic novella focused on the African American Great Migration after the Second World War, and a work that will leave readers thinking long after the final page.
Attended with the help of Getty Scholarship
Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Poetry Participant, '97, '12Her new poetry collection, West: Fire Archive at Jack London State Historic Park was published by the Center for Literary Publishing (Mountain/West Poetry Series) in March 2021
Ron Nyren
Writers Workshops Participant, '94Ron Nyren’s novel The Book of Lost Light was the finalist for the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction.
Jeffrey Kingman
Poetry Participant, '12His first full-length poetry book, Beyond That Hill I Gather, will be published by Finishing Line Press in May, 2021. The book features portrait poems of notable women.
Gail Reitano
Writers Workshop Participant '97, '98, '99, '02, '03, '19Her novel, Italian Love Cake, is forthcoming from Bordighera Press in May, 2021.
