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JOSIE AARONSON-GELB (MFA '04): Mice in the Garden (stories, Word Association, 2005).
FRANCESCA ABBATE (MFA '95): Troy, Unincorporated (poetry, University of Chicago Press, 2012).
SANDRA ALCOSSER (MFA '82): Except By Nature (National Poetry Series; Graywolf Press, 1998); Sleeping Inside the Glacier, in collaboration with artist Michele Burgess (1997); and A Fish to Feed All Hunger (poetry, Ahsahta Press, 1993) winner of the Associated Writing Program's Award Series. Alcosser started the MFA Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University.Alcosser served as Montana's first Poet Laureate. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Merriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize and a Writer's Voice New Voices of the West Award.
KENT ANDERSON (MFA '78): Sympathy for the Devil (fiction, Bantam, 2000); Night Dogs (fiction, Bantam, 1999).
THOMAS ASLIN (MFA '80): A Moon over Wings (poetry, Clark City Press, 2008); Sweet Smoke (poetry, Red Wing Press, 2006).
DAVID AXELROD (MFA '84): Departing by a Broken Gate (poetry, Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010); The Cartographer's Melancholy (poetry, Eastern Washington University, 2005); Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West (essays, Oregon State University Press, 2004); Jerusalem of Grass (poetry, Ahsahta Press, 1992).
JOHN BARNES (MFA '88): Directive 51 (fiction, Ace, 2010); The Armies of Memory (fiction, Tor, 2006); Gaudeamus (fiction, Tor, 2004); A Princess of the Aerie (fiction, Aspect/Warner, 2003); In the Hall of the Martian King (fiction, Aspect/Warner, 2003); The Sky So Big and Black (fiction, Tor, 2002); The Duke of Uranium (fiction, Aspect/Warner, 2002); The Merchants of Souls (fiction, Tor, 2001); With His Candle Lit into the Sun (fiction, Tor, 2000); The Return (fiction, Tor, 2000) with Buzz Aldrin; The Century Next Door (fiction, Science Fiction Book Club, 2000); Candle (fiction, Tor, 2000); Finity (fiction, Tor, 1999); Apostrophes and Apocalypses (fiction, Tor, 1998); Earth Made of Glass (fiction, Tor, 1998); The Timeline Wars (fiction, GuildAmerica, 1997); Patton's Spaceship (fiction, HarperPrism, 1997); Washington's Dirigible (fiction, HaperPrism, 1997); Caesar's Bicycle (fiction, HarperPrism, 1997); One for the Morning Glory (fiction, Tor, 1996); Encounter with Tiber (fiction, Aspect/Warner, 1996) with Buzz Aldrin; Kaleidoscope Century (fiction, Tor, 1995); Mother of Storms (fiction, Tor, 1994); A Million Open Doors (fiction, Tor, 1992); Wartide (fiction, Worldwide Library, 1992); Battlecry (fiction, Worldwide Library Gold Eagle, 1992); Union Fires (fiction, Worldwide Library, 1992); Orbital Resonance (fiction, Tor, 1991); Sin of Origin (fiction, Congdon and Weed, 1988); The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (fiction, Congdon and Weed, 1987).
KIM BARNES (MFA '95): A Country Called Home (fiction, Knopf, 2008)PEN Center Literary Award for Fiction 2009; Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty, edited with Claire Davis (essays, Doubleday, 2006); Finding Caruso (fiction, Putnam/Marian Wood Books, 2003); The Ashes of August (essay, Pushcart Prize 2002); Hungry for the World: A Memoir (Villard, 2000) Borders Books New Voices selection; In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (nonfiction, Doubleday, 1996) nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, edited with Mary Clearman Blew(nonfiction, New York: Viking Penguin, 1994).
BRIAN BEDARD (MFA '69): Grieving on the Run (fiction, Snake Nation Press, 2007); Hour of the Beast and Other Stories (Chariton Review Press, 1984).
RALPH BEER (MFA '81): The Blind Corral (fiction, Contemporary American Fiction, 1986) winner of the Spur Award; In These Hills (nonfiction, 1999).
CANDACE BLACK (MFA '81): contributor to Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader (poetry, Blueroad Press, 2007); The Volunteer (poetry, New Rivers Press, 2003).
SHEILA BLACK (MFA '98): Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (co-edited with Jennifer Bartlett and Michael Northen, Cinco Puntos Press, 2011); Love/Iraq (poetry, CW Books, 2009); How to be a Maquiladora (poetry, Main Street Rag, 2007); House of Bone (poetry, WordTech Communications, 2007).
LAURIE BLAUNER (MFA '80): Infinite Kindness (poetry, Black Heron Press, 2007); All This Could Be Yours (poetry, Cherry Grove Collections, 2006); Somebody (poetry, 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 (nonfiction, Knopf, 2002); Not Quite Stone (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award, 1992).
DAVID ALLAN CATES (MFA '92): Freeman Walker (fiction, Unbridled Books, 2008); X Out of Wonderland: A Saga (fiction, Steerforth, 2005); Hunger in America (fiction, Summit Books, 1992).
VICTOR CHARLO (BA '71): Put Sey (Good Enough) (poetry, Many Voices Press, 2008).
COLIN CHISHOLM (MFA '95): Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family (nonfiction, Alaska Northwest Books, 2000).
PATRICIA CLARK (MFA '80): My Father on a Bicycle (poetry, 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 (nonfiction, Johnson Books, 2004); River Street: A Novella and Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1994). Visit Phil Condon's website here.
JOSHUA COREY (MFA '99): Severance Songs (poetry, Tupelo Press, 2011); 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; Planets of a Cold Spring (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 1998). Visit Joshua Corey's website here.
MICHAEL EARL CRAIG (BA '94): Thin Kimono (poetry, Wave Books, 2010); Yes, Master (poetry, Fence Books, 2004); Can You Relax in My House (poetry, Fence Books, 2006); anthologized in Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems (Verse Press, 2004) and Poems About Horses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Series, 2009).
CLAIRE DAVIS (MFA '93): Labors of the Heart: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2006); Season of the Snake (fiction, Picador, 2005); Winter Range: a Novel (Picador, 2000).
JON DAVIS (MFA '85): Preliminary Report (poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2010); Local Color (poetry, Palanquin Press, 1995); The Hawk. The Road. The Sunlight After the Clouds. (poetry, Owl Creek Press, 1995); Scrimmage of Appetite (poetry, Akron Series in Poetry/University of Akron Press, 1995); Dangerous Amusements (poetry, Ontario Review Press, 1987); West of New England (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 1982).
RICK DEMARINIS (MA '67): Mama's Boy (fiction, Seven Stories Press, 2010); Apocalypse Then: New Novellas and Stories (Seven Stories Press, 2004); Sky Full of Sand (fiction, Dennis McMillan, 2003); A Clod of Wayward Marl (fiction, Dennis McMillan, 2001); The Art & Craft of the Short Story (nonfiction, Story Press Books, 2000); Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories (Seven Stories Press, 1999); The Mortician’s Apprentice(fiction, 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); A Lovely Monster: The Adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck (fiction, Simon and Schuser, 1975); Under the Wheat (fiction, University of Pittsburgh, 1986); The Burning Women of Far Cry (fiction, Arbor House, 1986); Cinder (fiction, Avon, 1980); Jack & Jill (fiction, EP Dutton, 1978); Scimitar (fiction, EP Dutton, 1977).
BRYAN DI SALVATORE (MFA '76): A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward (nonfiction, Pantheon, 1999).
CHRIS DOMBROWSKI (MFA '01) : By Cold Water (poetry, Wayne State University Press, 2009); Fragments with Dusk in Them (poetry chapbook, 2008).
QUINTON DUVAL (MFA '74): Among Summer Pines (poetry, Rattlesnake Press, 2008); Joe's Rain (poetry, Cedar House Press, 2005); Dinner Music (poetry, Lost Roads Press, 1984); and Guerilla Letters (poetry, Quarterly West Press, 1976).
MATTHEW ECK (MFA '04): The Farther Shore (fiction, Milkweed, 2007).
RHIAN ELLIS (MFA '95): After Life: a novel (Viking, 2000).
LUCAS FARRELL (MFA '08): The Many Woods of Grief (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011, winner of the 2010 Juniper Prize for Poetry).
KELLY KATHLEEN FERGUSON (MFA '08): My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (nonfiction, Press 53, 2011).
ELLEN FINNIGAN (MFA '08): The Desired Thing (nonfiction, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 2009).
WILLIAM FINNEGAN (MFA '78): Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (nonfiction, Random House, 1998); A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique (nonfiction, University of California, 1992); Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid (nonfiction, HarperCollins, 1986).
MICHAEL FITZGERALD (MFA '00): Radiant Days: A Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007).
KATE GADBOW (MFA '86): Pushed to Shore: a novel (Sarabande, 2003).
ALBERT GARCIA (MFA '87): Rainshadow (poetry, Copper Beach Press, 1996); Skunk Talk (poetry, Bear Star Pres, 2005).
MARK GIBBONS (MFA '98): Mauvaises Herbes (PROPOS2 éditions, 2009) French translations of Mark Gibbon's poems; Madness and Love (poetry, R &R Publishing, 2008); Blue Horizon (poetry, Two Dogs Press, 2007); Connemarra Moonshine (poetry, Camphorweed Press, 2002); Circling Home (poetry, Scattered Cairns Press, 2000); Something Inside Us (poetry, 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 (fiction, Scribner, 1998).
GREG GLAZNER (MFA '84): Singularity (poetry, Norton, 1996); From the Iron Chair (poetry, Norton, 1992); Walking Two Landscapes (poetry, State Street Press chapbook, 1984).
ADAM GOLASKI (MFA '04): Color Plates (fiction, Rose Metal Press, 2009); Worse Than Myself (fiction, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2008).
KEVIN GOODAN (BA '97): Winter Tenor (poetry, Alice James Books, 2009); Thin Embers Fly: Ten Poems (Factory Hollow Press, 2007); In the Ghost-House Acquainted (poetry, Alice James Books, 2004).
HENRIETTA GOODMAN (MFA '94): Take What You Want (poetry, Alice James Books, 2007).
NEILE GRAHAM (MFA '84): She Says: Poems Selected and New (Alsop Review Press, 2007); Blood Memory (poetry, BuschekBooks, 2000); Sheela-Na-Gig (Reference West, 1995); Spells For Clear Vision (poetry, Brick Books, 1994); Seven Robins (poetry, Penumbra Press, 1984) .Visit Neile Graham's website here.
RICHARD GREENFIELD (MFA '99): Tracer (poetry, Omnidawn Books, 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, 2008) nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award; The Confessions of Max Tivoli (fiction, 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 (MFA '00): 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 (nonfiction, Alaska Northwest Books, 2006); The Madagascar Manifesto (fiction, with Janet Berliner, Omnibus, 2002); Children of the Dusk (fiction, Bram Stoker Award Winner, 1997); Death Mask of Pancho Villa (fiction, Bantam Books, 1987).
ELIZABETH GUTHRIE (BA '02): Between Here and the Telescopes (poetry, jointly Livestock Editions, Slumgulion, 2008); Yellow and Red (drama, Blacklodge Press, 2008).
FRED HAEFELE (MFA '81): Rebuilding the Indian (nonfiction, Riverhead Books, 1998).
SHANNON HALE (MFA '00): Calamity Jack (fiction, Bloomsbury, 2010); The Actor and the Housewife (fiction, Bloomsbury, 2010); Forest Born (fiction, Bloomsbury, 2009); Rapunzel's Revenge (fiction, Bloomsbury, 2008); Book of a Thousand Days (fiction, Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2007); Austenland: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 2007); River Secrets (fiction, Bloomsbury USA, 2006); Princess Academy (fiction, Bloomsbury USA, 2005); Enna Burning (fiction, Bloomsbury USA, 2004); The Goose Girl (fiction, Bloomsbury USA, 2003). Visit Shannon Hale's website here.
ED HARKNESS (MFA '73): Beautiful Passing Lives (poetry, 2010, Pleasure Boat Studio); Syringa in Twilight (poetry chapbook, Red Wing Press, 2010); Saying the Necessary (2000, Pleasure Boat Studio); Watercolor Painting of a Bamboo Rake (poetry chapbook, Brooding Heron Press, 1994).
JACK HEFLIN (MFA '82): Local Hope (poetry, University of Louisiana, 2010); The Map of Leaving: Poems (Montana Arts Council, 1984).
LAWRENCE HOGUE (MFA '96): All the Wild and Lonely Places (nonfiction, Island Press, 2000).
CRAIG HOLDEN (MFA '86): Matala: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2007); The Narcissist's Daughter: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2005); The Jazz Bird (fiction, Pocket Books, 2003); Four Corners of Night (fiction, Delacorte Press, 1998); The Last Sanctuary (fiction, Delacorte Press, 1996); The River Sorrow (fiction, MacMillan, 1995); Trees Call for What They Need (fiction, Spinster Ink Books, 1993); Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (fiction, Spinster Ink Books, 1990).
ART HOMER (MFA '79): Sight Is No Carpenter (poetry, WordTech Communications, 2005); The Drownt Boy: An Ozark Tale (nonfiction, 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).
STAR JAMESON (BA '88): Medicine Rock: A Journey of Vision and Healing, by Morning Star (nonfiction, IUniverse Press, 2010).
BETH JUDY (MFA '95): Medicinal Plants of North America: A Flora Delaterre Coloring Book (nonfiction, 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.
BARRY KITTERMAN (MFA '81): From the San Joaquin (stories, Southern Methodist University Press, 2011); The Baker's Boy (novel, Southern University Methodist Press, 2008).
MELISSA KWASNY (MFA '99):The Nine Senses (poetry, Milkweed Editions, 2011); I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (co-edited with M.L. Smoker, Lost Horse Press, 2009); Reading Novalis in Montana (poetry, Milkweed Editions, 2009); Thistle (poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2006); Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (poetics, Wesleyan Poetry, 2004); The Archival Birds (poetry, Bear Star Press, 2000); Trees Call for What They Need (fiction, Spinster Ink Books, 1993); Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (fiction, Spinster Ink Books, 1990).
ARYN KYLE (MFA '03): Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories (Scribner, 2010); The God of Animals: A Novel (Scribner, 2007).
LAURIE LAMON: The Fork Without Hunger (poetry, CavanKerry Press, 2005).
ROBERT E. LEE (MFA '96): Guiding Elliot (fiction, Lyons Press, 1997).
J. ROBERT LENNON (MFA '95): Castle (fiction, Graywolf Press, 2009); Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (fiction, Granta, 2005); Mailman: A Novel (Norton, 2003); On the Night Plain: A Novel (Henry Holt & Co, 2001); The Funnies (fiction, Riverhead, 1999); Light of Falling Stars (fiction, Riverhead, 1997).
TOM LOMBARDI (MFA '99): My Summer on Earth (fiction, Simon & Schuster, 2008).
DAVID LONG (MFA '74): The Inhabited World (novel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006); The Falling Boy (novel, Plume, 1998); Blue Spruce: Stories (Scribner, 1996).
NEIL MCMAHON (MFA '79): Dead Silver: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2008); Lone Creek (fiction, HarperCollins, 2007); Revolution No. 9: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2005); To the Bone (fiction, HarperCollins, 2003); Blood Double (fiction, HarperCollins, 2002); Twice Dying (fiction, HarperCollins, 2000).
DEIRDRE MCNAMER (MFA '87): Red Rover (fiction, Viking, 2007); My Russian (fiction, Houghton Mifflin, 1999); One Sweet Quarrel: A Novel (HarperCollins, 1994); Rima in the Weeds: A Novel (HarperCollins, 1991).
CATHERINE MENG (MFA '00): Lost Work Book w/Letters to Deer (poetry, auch/dusie kollektiv, 2009); Dokument (poetry, Carve Editions, 2008); Tonight’s the Night (poetry, Apostrophe Books, 2007); 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press, 2006).
NILS MICHALS (MFA '00): Lure (Pleiades Press, 2004, Lena-Miles Wever Todd Award for Poetry).
BRENDA MILLER (MFA '91): Blessing of the Animals (nonfiction, Eastern Washington Press, 2009), Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003), Season of the Body: Essays (Sarabande, 2002).
DAVID R. MONTAGUE (BA '66): In Greed We Trust: Secrets of a Dead Billionaire (fiction, Two Trout Press, 2007).
STEPHEN MORISON (MFA '97): In The Lion's Mouth (fiction, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 1997).
BLAIR OLIVER (MFA '91): The Long Slide (fiction, World Audience, Inc., 2010); Last Call (fiction, World Audience, Inc., 2007).
THOMAS ORTON (MFA '76): Kenneth Callahan (nonfiction, University of Washington Press, 2001); The Lost Glass Plates of Wilfred Eng (fiction, Counterpoint) in 1999.
JEREMY PATAKY (MFA '2007): Fata Morgana (digital poetry chapbook, Blue Hour Press, 2010).
CAROLINE PATTERSON (MFA '94): Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart (editor; Farcountry Press, 2006).
SARA LYNN PEVAR (MFA '10): In Sight of Land (fiction, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 2010).
AMY RATTO-PARKS (MFA '04): Bread and Water Body (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 2003).
JANISSE RAY (MFA '97): Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land (nonfiction, Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2005); Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (nonfiction, Milkweed Editions, 2003); Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (nonfiction, Milkweed Editions, 1999).
STEVE RINELLA (MFA '00): American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon (nonfiction, Speigel & Grau, 2008); The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (nonfiction, Miramax, 2006).
RICHARD ROBBINS (MFA '79): Other Americas (poetry, Blueroad Press, 2010); Radioactive City (poetry, Bellday Books, 2009); The Untested Hand (poetry, Backwaters Press, 2008); Famous Persons We Have Known (poetry, Eastern Washington University Press, 2000); The Invisible Wedding (poetry, University of Missouri Press, 1984); Toward New Weather (poetry, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 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).
SHARMAN APT RUSSELL (MFA '80): Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (nonfiction, Basic Books, 2009) New Mexico Book Award finalist and one of Booklists' top ten religious books of 2008; Hunger: An Unnatural History (nonfiction, Basic Books, 2005); An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (nonfiction, Perseus Books, 2003); Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers (nonfiction, Basic Books, 2002); The Last Matriarch (fiction, University of New Mexico Press, 2000); The Humpbacked Fluteplayer (fiction, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1994) Songs of the Fluteplayer (nonfiction, Addison-Wesley, 1991) winner of the 1992 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and New Mexico Zia Award.
DANIEL SHAPIRO (MFA '80): Cipango, poetry by Tomas Harris, translation by Shapiro (Bucknell University Press, 2009).
ROB SCHLEGEL (MFA'04): Bloom (poetry, GreenTower Press,winner of the 2010 Midwest Chapbook); The Lesser Fields (poetry, University of Colorado Press, winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize).
KEITH SCRIBNER (MFA '91): Miracle Girl (fiction, Riverhead, 2003); The Goodlife (fiction, Riverhead 1999).
BRANDON SHIMODA (MFA '06): O Bon (poetry, Litmus Press, 2011); The Girl Without Arms (poetry, Black Ocean, 2011); The Bowling (with Sommer Browning, poetry chapbook, Greying Ghost Press, 2010); The Inland Sea (poetry chapbook, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008); The Alps (poetry, Flim Forum Press, 2008); Lake M, One (poetry chapbook, Corollary Press, 2008).
SANDRA SIMONDS (MFA '03): Used White Wife (poetry, Grey Book Press, 2009); A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008); Warsaw Bikini (poetry, Bloof Books, 2008); Tomorrow's Bright Bracelets (poetry, Kitchen Press, 2008); The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (poetry, Cy Gist Press, 2007); Pete, Sorry (poetry, The Cultural Society, 2007); The Tar Pit Diatoms (poetry, Otoliths, 2006).
ED SKOOG (MFA '96): Mister Skylight (poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2009); Tool Kit (Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 1995).
M.L. SMOKER (MFA '03): I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (co-edited with Melissa Kwasny, Lost Horse Press, 2009); Another Attempt at Rescue (poetry, Hanging Loose Press, 2005).
JAMES SOULAR (MFA '92): The Thousand Yard Stare (fiction, AuthorHouse, 2004).
DIANA SPECHLER (MFA '03): Who By Fire (fiction, Harper Perennial, 2008).
CATHERINE THEIS (MFA '01): In Fortune (poetry, with Lauren Levin and Paul Stanley, dusie, 2006); The Maybook (poetry, Your Beeswax, 2005).
GARY THOMPSON (MFA '75): To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us (poetry, Turning Point Books, 2009); On John Muir's Trail (poetry, Bear Star Press, 1999).
LISE THOMPSON (MFA '00): Go Fish (fiction, Merriam-Frontier Award chapbook, 2000).
KIM TODD (MFA '98): Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (nonfiction, Harcourt, 2007); Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America (nonfiction, Norton, 2001).
RACHEL TOOR (MFA '06): Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running (nonfiction, University of Nebraska Press, 2008); The Pig and I (nonfiction, Hudson Street Pres, 2005); Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process (nonfiction, St. Martin's Press, 2001).
MICHAEL UMPHREY (MFA '89): The Breaking Edge (poetry, University of Montana, 1988); Lit Window (poetry, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1987).
PAMELA USCHUK (MFA '86): Crazy Love (poetry, Wings Press, 2009; Without the Comfort of Stars: New and Selected Poems (Sampark Press, New Delhi and London, 2007); One Legged Dancer (poetry, Wings Press, 2001);Finding Peaches in the Desert (poetry, Wings Press, 2000); Scattered Risks (poetry, Wings Press, 2000); Editor In Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts. Visit Pamela's website here.
JODI VARON (MFA '82): Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father (nonfiction, 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 (MFA '70): Darkroom Soldier: Photographs and Letters from the South Pacific Theatre WWII (in collaboration with Fredrick H. Hill, Photosmith Books, 2007); Soldier to Advocate: C. E. S. Wood’s 1877 Legacy (nonfiction, La Grande: Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007); West of Paradise (poetry, La Grande: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999); Marking The Magic Circle (Corvallis: Oregon State U. Press, 1987); Off The Main Road (poetry, Portland: Prescott St. Press, 1978); Sunday Afternoon: Grande Ronde (poetry, Portland: Prescott St. Press, 1975); Visit George's website here.
MILES WAGGENER (MFA '01): Sky Harbor (poetry, Pinyon Publishing Press, 2011); Phoenix Suites (poetry, The Word Works, 2003, winner of the Washington Prize); Portents Aside (poetry chapbook, Two Dogs Press, 2008).
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 (MFA '77): Porthole Views of the World: Poems and Paintings (in collaboration with artist Hazel Stoeckeler, Nodin Press, 2008); The Burning House (poetry, Main Street Rag 2005); Small Mercies (poetry, Owl Creek Press 1983).
JAMES WELCH (Class of '67): The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel (Doubleday, 2000); Killing Custer: the battle of Little Bighorn and the fate of the Plain Indians (nonfiction, Norton, 1994); The Indian Lawyer (fiction, Norton, 1990); Fools Crow (fiction,Viking, 1986); The Death of Jim Loney (fiction, HarperCollins, 1979); Riding the Earthboy 40 (poetry, Harper & Row, 1976); Winter in the Blood (fiction, HarperCollins, 1975).
KELLIE WELLS (MFA '91): Skin (fiction, University of Nebraska Press, 2006); Compression Scars (fiction, University of Georgia Press, 2002). Visit Kellie's website here.
ROBERT WRIGLEY (MFA '76): Beautiful Country (poetry, Penguin, 2010); Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006); Lives of the Animals (poetry, 2003); Reign of Snakes (poetry, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, 1999); In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (poetry, winner of the San Franscisco Poetry Center Book Award and Lenore Marshall Award finalist, 1995); What My Father Believed (poetry, 1991); Moon in a Mason Jar (poetry, 1986); The Sinking of Clay City (poetry, 1979).
GRETA WROLSTAD (Class of '06): Notes on Sea & Shore (poetry, Tavern Books, 2011).
PAUL ZARZYSKI (MFA '76): Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat (poetry, Oreana Books, Winner of the 2004 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America); Blue-Collar Light (poetry, Redwing Press, 1998); The Garnet Moon (poetry, Rainshadow Edition, University of Nevada, 1990); and The Make-Up of Ice (poetry, University of Georgia, 1984).
ALUMNI WEBSITES (Click on the name)
Sandra Alcosser, Candace Black, Laurie Blauner, Patricia Clark, Joshua Corey, Matthew Eck, Rhian Ellis, Michael FitzGerald, Greg Glazner, Neile Graham, Andrew Sean Greer, Shannon Hale, Craig Holden, Art Homer, Beth Judy, Aryn Kyle, Laurie Lamon, J. Robert Lennon, Richard Robbins, Kim Todd, Rachel Toor, Amanda Eyre Ward, James Welch, Kellie Wells, Robert Wrigley, George Venn