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SANDRA ALCOSSER: Except By Nature (National Poetry Series; Graywolf Press, 1998); A Fish to Feed All Hunger (Ahsahta Press)
KENT ANDERSON: Night Dogs (fiction, Bantam, 1998); Sympathy for the Devil (fiction, Doubleday, 1987)
THOMAS ASLIN (MFA '80): A Moon over Wings (poetry, Clark City Press, forthcoming 2008); Sweet Smoke (poetry, Red Wing Press, 2006);
DAVID AXELROD: The Cartographer's Melancholy (poems, Eastern Washington University, 2005); Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West (essays, Oregon State University Press, 2004); Jerusalem of Grass (poems, Ahsahta Press, 1992)
KIM BARNES: Hungry for the World: A Memoir (Villard, 2000); In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (Doubleday, 1996)
CARTER BENTON (MFA '08): The Second Coming of Grey Badger (Atlantic Monthly 2007)
CANDACE BLACK (MFA '81): The Volunteer (poetry, New Rivers Press, 2003)
SHEILA BLACK (MFA '98): House of Bone (poetry, WordTech Communications, 2007)
LAURIE BLAUNER: Infinite Kindness (Black Heron Press, 2007); All This Could Be Yours (poetry, Cherry Grove Collections, 2006); Somebody (Black Heron Press, 2003); Facing the Facts (poetry Orchises Press, 2002); Children of Gravity (poetry, Owl Creek Press, 1995); Self-Portrait with and Unwilling Landscape (poetry, Owl Creek Press, 1989); Other Lives (poetry, Owl Creek Press, 1984). Visit Laurie's website here.
JUDY BLUNT (MFA '94): Breaking Clean (Knopf, 2002); Not Quite Stone (poems, Merriam-Frontier Award, 1992)
DAVID ALLAN CATES (MFA '92): Freeman Walker (fiction, Unbridled Books, forthcoming 2008); X Out of Wonderland: A Saga (Steerforth, 2005)
COLIN CHISHOLM (MFA '95): Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family (Alaska Northwest Books, 2000)
PATRICIA CLARK: My Father on a Bicycle (Michigan State University Press, 2005); North of Wondering (poetry, Grand Valley State University, 2003); Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (co-author, Prentice Hall, 1996)
PHIL CONDON (MFA '89): Clay Center (fiction, Eastern Washington University, 2004); Montana Surround: Land, Water, Nature, and Place (Johnson Books, 2004); River Street: A Novella and Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1994). Visit Phil Condon's website here.
JOSHUA COREY (MFA '99): Hope and Anchor (poetry, Noemi Press, 2007); Compos(t)ition Marble (poetry, Pavement Saw Press, 2006; Winner of the 2006-2006 Chapbook Award); Fourier Series (poetry, Spineless Books, 2005); Selah (poetry, Barrow Street Press, 2003. Winner of the 2002 Barrow Street Book Prize). Visit Joshua Corey's website here.
CLAIRE DAVIS (MFA '93): Winter Range: a Novel (Picador, 2000); Labors of the Heart: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
JON DAVIS: Scrimmage of Appetite (Akron Series in Poetry/University of Akron Press, 1995)
RICK DEMARINIS: Apocalypse Then: New Novellas and Stories (Seven Stories Press, 2004); Sky Full of Sand (Dennis McMillan, 2003); A Clod of Wayward Marl (Dennis McMillan, 2001); The Art & Craft of the Short Story (Story Press Books, 2000); Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories (Seven Stories Press, 1999); The Mortician’s Apprentice (Norton, 1994); The Voice of America: Stories (Harper Perennial, 1992); Coming Triumph of the Free World: Stories (Norton, 1991); The Year of the Zinc Penny (fiction, Norton, 1989); Under the Wheat (University of Pittsburgh, 1986); The Burning Women of Far Cry (Arbor House, 1986); Cinder (Avon, 1980)
BRYAN DI SALVATORE (MFA '76): A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward (Pantheon, 1999)
CHRIS DOMBROWSKI (MFA '01): Fragments with Dusk in Them (poetry, forthcoming 2008)
MATTHEW ECK (MFA '04): The Farther Shore (Milkweed, 2007)
RHIAN ELLIS (MFA '95): After Life: a novel (Viking, 2000)
WILLIAM FINNEGAN: Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Random House, 1998); A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique (University of California, 1992); Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid (HarperCollins, 1986)
MICHAEL FITZGERALD: Radiant Days: A Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007)
KATE GADBOW: Pushed to Shore: a novel (Sarabande, 2003)
MARK GIBBONS: Blue Horizon (Two Dogs Press, 2007); Connemarra Moonshine (Scattered Cairns Press, 2002); Circling Home (Scattered Cairns Press, 2000); Something Inside Us (Big Mountain Publishing, 1995). Listen to Mark read three poems for the Missoulian here.
DAVID GILBERT (MFA '95): The Normals: a novel (Bloomsbury, 2004); Remote Feed (Scribner, 1998)
GREG GLAZNER: Singularity (poems, Norton, 1996); From the Iron Chair (Norton, 1992); Walking Two Landscapes (State Street Press chapbook, 1984)
ADAM GOLASKI: Color Plates (Rose Metal Press, forthcoming 2009); Worse Than Myself (Raw Dog Screaming Press, forthcoming 2008)
HENRIETTA GOODMAN (MFA '94): Take What You Want (poems, Alice James Books, 2007)
NEILE GRAHAM (MFA '84): Blood Memory (poetry, BuschekBooks, 2000); Spells For Clear Vision (poetry, Brick Books, 1994); Seven Robins (poetry, Penumbra Press, 1984); spoken word CD, She
Says: Poems Selected and New (Alsop Review Press, 2007), received a $20,000 Canada Council for the Arts grant to complete a new collection of poetry in 2008.Visit Neile Graham's website here.RICHARD GREENFIELD (MFA '99): Tracer (Omnidawn Books, forthcoming 2009); A Carnage in the Lovetrees (New California Poetry, 2003)
ANDREW SEAN GREER (MFA '96): The Story of a Marriage: A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming 2008); The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004); The Path of Minor Planets: A Novel (Picador, 2001); How It Was for Me: Stories (Picador, 2000). Visit Andrew's website here.
SARAH GRIDLEY: Weather Eye Open (New California Poetry, 2005)
JAMES GURLEY (MFA '84): Human Cartography (poetry, Truman State University Press, 2002. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize)
GEORGE GUTHRIDGE (MFA '72): The Kids from Nowhere: The Story Behind the Arctic Educational Miracle (Alaska Northwest Books, 2006)
FRED HAEFELE: Rebuilding the Indian (Riverhead Books, 1998)
SHANNON HALE (MFA '00): Book of a Thousand Days (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2007); Austenland: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 2007); River Secrets (Bloomsbury USA, 2006); Princess Academy (Bloomsbury USA, 2005); Enna Burning (Bloomsbury USA, 2004); The Goose Girl (Bloomsbury USA, 2003). Visit Shannon Hale's website here.
JACK HEFLIN: The Map of Leaving: Poems (Montana Arts Council, 1984)
CRAIG HOLDEN (MFA '86) : Matala: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2007); The Narcissist's Daughter: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2005); The Jazz Bird (Pocket Books, 2003); Four Corners of Night (Delacorte Press, 1998); The Last Sanctuary (Delacorte Press, 1996); The River Sorrow (MacMillan, 1995); Trees Call for What They Need (novel, Spinster Ink Books, 1993); Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (novel, Spinster Ink Books, 1990)
ART HOMER (MFA '79): Sight Is No Carpenter (poetry, WordTech Communications, 2005); The Drownt Boy: An Ozark Tale (non-fiction, University of Missouri Press, 1994); Skies of Such Valuable Glass (poetry, Owl Creek Press, 1990); Tattoos (poetry, Greentower Press Chapbook Series, 1986); What We Did After Rain (poetry, Abattoir Editions, 1984)
FRANCES HWANG (MFA '01): Transparency: Stories (Back Bay Books, 2007)
BETH JUDY: Medicinal Plants of North America: A Flora Delaterre Coloring Book (Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2007). Read an interview here with Beth, producer of The Plant Detective, a radio show about medicinal plants in conjunction with Montana Public Radio.
MELISSA KWASNY (MFA '99): Reading Novalis in Montana (poems, Milkweed Editions, forthcoming 2009); Thistle (poems, Lost Horse Press, 2006); Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (poetics, Wesleyan Poetry, 2004); The Archival Birds (Bear Star Press, 2000); Trees Call for What They Need (novel, Spinster Ink Books, 1993); Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (novel, Spinster Ink Books, 1990)
ARYN KYLE (MFA '03): The God of Animals: A Novel (Scribner, 2007)
LAURIE LAMON: The Fork Without Hunger (CavanKerry Press, 2005)
ROBERT E. LEE: Guiding Elliot (Lyons Press, 1997)
J. ROBERT LENNON (MFA '95): Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (Granta, 2005); Mailman: A Novel (Norton, 2003); On the Night Plain: A Novel (Henry Holt & Co, 2001); The Funnies (Riverhead, 1999); Light of Falling Stars (Riverhead, 1997)
TOM LOMBARDI (MFA '99): My Summer on Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
NEIL MCMAHON: Dead Silver: A Novel (HarperCollins, forthcoming 2008); Lone Creek (HarperCollins, 2007); Revolution No. 9: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2005); To the Bone (HarperCollins, 2003); Blood Double (HarperCollins, 2002); Twice Dying (HarperCollins, 2000);
DEIRDRE MCNAMER: Red Rover (Viking, 2007); My Russian (Houghton Mifflin, 1999); One Sweet Quarrel: A Novel (HarperCollins, 1994); Rima in the Weeds: A Novel (HarperCollins, 1991)
CATHERINE MENG (MFA '00): Dokument (Carve Editions, forthcoming 2008); Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books, 2007); 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press, 2006)
NILS MICHALS (MFA '00): Lure (poetry, Pleiades Press / Lena-Miles Todd Weaver Award, 2004)
BRENDA MILLER: Season of the Body: Essays (Sarabande, 2002)
BLAIR OLIVER: Last Call (short fiction, World Audience, Inc., 2007)
THOMAS ORTON (MFA '76) The Lost Glass Plates of Wilfred Eng (Counterpoint) in 1999.
CAROLINE PATTERSON: Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart (editor; Farcountry Press, 2006)
AMY RATTO-PARKS: Bread and Water Body (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award, 2003)
JANISSE RAY (MFA '97): Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land (Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2005); Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (Milkweed Editions, 2003); Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed Editions, 1999)
STEVE RINELLA: The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (Miramax, 2006)
RICHARD ROBBINS (MFA '79): Other Americas (Blueroad Press, forthcoming 2009); The Untested Hand (Backwaters Press, 2008); Famous Persons We Have Known (Eastern Washington University Press, 2000); The Invisible Wedding (University of Missouri Press, 1984); Toward New Weather (chapbook, Frontier Award Committee, 1978); Where We Are: The Montana Poets Anthology (co-editor, SmokeRoot Press, 1978)
JEFF ROSS (MFA '06): A Whooping Crane Diary (poetry & prose, Swan Scythe Press, 2005);
KEITH SCRIBNER (MFA '91): Miracle Girl (Riverhead, 2003); The Goodlife (Riverhead 1999)
BRANDON SHIMODA (MFA '06): The Inland Sea (poetry, Tarpaulin Sky Press, forthcoming 2008); The Alps (poetry, Flim Forum Press, forthcoming 2008); Lake M, One (poetry, Corollary Press, forthcoming 2008)
SANDRA SIMONDS (MFA '03) : Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, forthcoming 2008); Tomorrow's Bright Bracelets (Kitchen Press, forthcoming 2008); The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (poetry, Cy Gist Press, 2007); The Tar Pit Diatoms (poetry, Otoliths, 2006)
M.L. SMOKER (MFA '03): Another Attempt at Rescue (poetry, Hanging Loose Press, 2005)
DIANA SPECHLER (MFA '03): Who By Fire (novel, Harper Perennial, forthcoming, 2008)
CATHERINE THEIS (MFA '01): In Fortune (with Lauren Levin and Paul Stanley; dusie, 2006)
KIM TODD (MFA '98): Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Harcourt, 2007); Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America (Norton, 2001)
RACHEL TOOR (MFA '06): The Pig and I (Hudson Street Pres, 2005); Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process (St. Martin's Press, 2001)
MICHAEL UMPHREY: The Breaking Edge (University of Montana, 1988); Lit Window (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1987)
PAMELA USCHUK (MFA '86): Finding Peaches in the Desert; One Legged Dancer; Scattered Risks published by Wings Press; and Without the Comfort of Stars: New and Selected Poems (2007 Sampark Press, New Delhi and London); several chapbooks of poems; Crazy Love (collection, Wings Press, forthcoming 2009); Editor In Chef of Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts. Visit Pamela's website here.
JODI VARON: Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father (University of Missouri Press, 2006); The Rock's Cold Breath: The Selected Poems of Li He (translated from the Chinese by Jodi Varon)
GEORGE VENN: Soldier to Advocate: C. E. S. Wood’s 1877 Legacy (La Grande: Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007); West of Paradise (La Grande: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999); Marking The Magic Circle (Corvallis: Oregon State U. Press, 1987); Off The Main Road (Portland: Prescott St. Press, 1978); Sunday Afternoon: Grande Ronde (Portland: Prescott St. Press, 1975); Visit George's website here.
MILES WAGGENER (MFA '01): Phoenix Suites (poetry, The Word Works, 2003)
JONI WALLACE (MFA '98): Redshift (poetry, Kore Press, 2001)
AMANDA EYRE WARD (MFA '97): Forgive Me: A Novel (Random House, 2007); How To Be Lost: A Novel (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2004); Sleep Toward Heaven: A Novel (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003)
LIZA WARD (MFA '02): Outside Valentine: A Novel (Henry Holt, 2004)
ELIZABETH WEBER: Porthole Views of the World: Poems and Paintings (in collaboration with artist Hazel Stoeckeler, Nodin Press, forthcoming 2008); The Burning House (poetry, Main Street Rag 2005); Small Mercies (poetry, Owl Creek Press 1983)
JAMES WELCH: The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel (Doubleday, 2000); Killing Custer : the battle of Little Bighorn and the fate of the Plain Indians (Norton, 1994); The Indian Lawyer (Norton, 1990); Fools Crow (Viking, 1986); The Death of Jim Loney (HarperCollins, 1979); Riding the Earthboy 40 (poetry, Harper & Row, 1976); Winter in the Blood (HarperCollins, 1975)
KELLIE WELLS (MFA '91): Skin (University of Nebraska Press, 2006); Compression Scars (University of Georgia Press, 2002). Visit Kellie's website here.
ROBERT WRIGLEY (MFA '76): Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006); Lives of the Animals (2003); Reign of Snakes (1999), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and Lenore Marshall Award finalist; What My Father Believed (1991); Moon in a Mason Jar (1986); and The Sinking of Clay City (1979).
ALUMNI WEBSITES (Click on the name)
Sandra Alcosser, Candace Black, Laurie Blauner, David Cates, Patricia Clark, Joshua Corey, Matthew Eck, Rhian Ellis, Michael FitzGerald, Greg Glazner, Neile Graham, Andrew Sean Greer, Shannon Hale, Craig Holden, Art Homer, Aryn Kyle, Laurie Lamon, J. Robert Lennon, Richard Robbins, Kim Todd, Rachel Toor, Amanda Eyre Ward, James Welch, Kellie Wells, Robert Wrigley; George Venn