Gwen Goodkin
Writers Workshop Participant, ‘07, ‘11Her short story collection, A Place Remote, (West Virginia University Press) has won a Silver IPPY in the Great Lakes – Best Regional Fiction category.
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Michelle Ruiz Keil
Writers Workshop participant, 2014Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel, Summer in the City of Roses, follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. It will be available July 6, 2021 wherever books are sold.
Lois Rosen
Her new book of poetry, Diving and Rising, was recently published by Finishing Line Press.
Amy Tan
Writers Workshops Participant '87, frequent Writers Workshops Special Guest, Member of Board of DirectorsA new documentary, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, recently premiered on PBS. Amy Tan is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring story of Tan’s life and career. To watch, click here.
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Poetry Participant, '19An artifact of erasure at once poetry and visual art, Her Read, a graphic poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth will be published in full color and hardback by Texas Review Press in June, 2021. In the tradition of reusing canvases, with correction fluid, scalpel & embroidery floss, Steinorth transforms a tome of art criticism, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read, into feminist verse. Though the maternal body appears with frequency in Read’s illustrated text which spans from prehistory to the modern age, he includes zero female artists. Her Read, a graphic poem, is an excavation of buried voices– a reclamation of bodies framed in gilt & an homage to those whose arts remain unsung.
Attended with the help of I did (blessedly) receive a scholarship, which made attendance possible, but I cannot seem to locate the name!
K.M. English
Poetry Participant, '16Her debut full-length collection, Wave Says, was published by Kore Press on May 15, 2021.
Attended with the help of Cushing Scholarship!
Shangyang Fang
Poetry Participant, '19His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in October, 2021.
Attended with the help of The Sharon Olds Honorary Scholarship
Jeanine Stevens
Poetry Participant 2007, 2010,2014,2017Her chapbook, Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, was awarded the Heartland Review Chapbook Award for Poetry 2020, and recently published. The chapbook was also a Main Street Rag Finalist.
Mary Dixie Carter
Writers Workshops Participant '17Her debut novel The Photographer will be published by Minotaur Books/ St. Martin’s Press (U.S.) on May 25, 2021 and by Hodder Books (UK) on May 13, 2021.
Laura Otis
Writers Workshops Participant, '08, '11She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021-2022 to work on a book she is calling The Neuroscience of Craft. The book will analyze contemporary fiction-writers’ techniques for helping readers to blend senses in their imaginations.
Stella Beratlis
Poetry Participant, '07, '12Her second poetry collection, Dust Bowl Venus, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in May, 2021.
Pablo J Lopez
Poetry Participant, '08His book Structures the Moment was published by the Los Angeles press Anonymous Energy.
Lynne Goldsmith
poetry participantHer poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Distinguished Favorite in the 2021 Independent Press Awards.
Marc Jampole
Writers Workshop participant '05His first novel, The Brothers Silver, was published by Owl Canyon Press. The Brothers Silver follows the lives of two brothers who grow up in a family haunted by mental illness, drug abuse, and violence.
Anthony S. Abbott
Poetry Participant, '91/'02His new collection Dark Side of North was published in January, 2021 by Press53.
Casey Guerin
Writers Workshop Participant ’19Her short story “What Consumes You” won the 2020 Greensboro Review Robert Watson Literary Prize and appears in the Spring 2021 issue, as well as online.
