Note Type: Bookshelf

April Brucker ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had her new book Don’t Read  My Lips! — America’s Foremost Female Ventriloquist Reveals the Secrets of How to be a…

Toni Ann Johnson’s ‘08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) Homegoing, winner of Accent Publishing’s novella contest, was published on May 1, 2021. Her piece, “Daughtered Out,” appeared in The…

Cassandra Lane’s ‘03 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) memoir We Are Bridges was published by Feminist Press on April 20, 2021.

Levi Rogers ‘16 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) published his first novel Utah A Novel! with Atmosphere Press. His piece, “Those Dead Spaces: When No One in Your Family…

Leonora Simonovis’ ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) Study of the Raft was selected by judge Sherwin Bitsui as the winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. The…

Tim Cummings’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) debut novel, Alice the Cat, will be published by Regal House in 2023.

Khadijah Queen ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) was listed as one of Essence’s “20 Poets You Should Know” for national poetry month. Queen’s latest book of poetry Anodyne was…

Gwynne Garfinkle’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel, Can’t Find My Way Home, will be published by Aqueduct Press. 

Esther Belin ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) was a contributing editor on The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature published by the University of Arizona Press.  

Nathan Elias’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) debut, The Reincarnations: Stories, was published by Montag Press. He was interviewed by Southern Review of Books and the book was reviewed…

Chandra Hoffman’s ‘08 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) second novel, What Pretty Gets You, was published.

John Charles Reedburg ‘16 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) published his novel Cracks of Light. He was interviewed about his novel by NewInBooks and by ManyBooks.