Most of these are first books. We can't keep up with all alumni books.


Jeffery Renard Allen, Rails Under My Back.

Dawn Michelle BaudeThe Flying House, Poems 1996-2006, and Through a Membrane / Clouds.

Garrett Brown, Manna Sifting.

Mary Biddinger, Prairie Fever.

Charles Cannon, Soul Resin.

Maxine Chernoff, A Boy in Winter: A Novel, and Evolution of the Bridge: New and Selected Prose.

Michael D. Collins, The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters, and The Resurrectionists.

Gina Frangello, My Sister's Continent.

Paul Hoover, Rehearsal in Black, Winter, and Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert.

John Jacob, The Light Fandango, Long Ride Back, and Summerbook.

Lily James, High Drama in Fabulous Toledo, and The Great Taste of Straight People.

Jim McManus, Positively Fifth Street and Going to the Sun.

Trucy Lewis, The Bones of Garbo and Private Correspondences.

Orlando Menes, Furia: Poems, and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred.

Simone Muench, Lampblack & Ash.

Pam Painter, Getting to Know the Weather, and The Long and Short of It: Stories.

Alex Shakar, Savage Girl, and City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses.

Sharon Solwitz, Bloody Mary: A Novel, and Blood and Milk: Stories.

Renee Steinke, Holy Skirts and The Fires.

Steve Tomasula, Vas, an Opera in Flatland, and the Book of Portraiture.

Corrina Wycoff, O Street.

Zoe Zolbrod, Currency.

academic employment

Jeffrey Allen, tenured, Queens College
Mike Barrett, tenure-equivalent, Moberly Area Community College
Dawn Michelle Baude, tenured, The American University of Paris, France
Mary Biddinger, tenure track, University of Akron
Elizabeth Blair, tenured, SW Minnesota University
Garrett Brown, tenure track, Anne Arundel Community College
Maxine Chernoff, tenured, San Francisco State Univ.
Naomi Crummey, tenure track, Blackburn College
Cynthia Davidson, tenure track, SUNY Stony Brook
Jim Elledge, tenured, Illinois State University
Amy England, tenure track, School of the Art Institute
Ivan Faute, visiting assistant professor (tenure track pending) Christopher Newport University
Lea Graham, poet-in-residence, Clark University
Duriel Harris, tenure track, Northwestern University
Carla Kaplan, tenured, Northeastern University
Trudy Lewis, tenured, University of Missouri
Janice Lively, tenure track, Elmhurst College
Jim McManus, School of the Art Institute
Orlando Menes, tenured, Notre Dame University
Carrie Messenger, tenure track, Shepherd University
Simone Muench, tenure track, Lewis University
Kristy Odelius, North Park University
Nnedi Okorafor, tenure track, Chicago State University
Kelly Ritter, tenure track, Connecticut College
Ivelisse Rodriguez, tenure track, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Alex Shakar, tenured, University of Illinois
Rone Shavers, tenure track, The College of St. Rose
Pamela Skeen, tenured, Emerson
Sharon Solwitz, tenured, Purdue University
Dorothy Stephens, tenured, University of Arkansas
Steve Tomasula, tenured, Notre Dame University
David Vance, tenure track, University of Texas
Reggie Young, tenured, University of Louisana Lafayette

Alumni Websites:

Simone Muench
Orlando Menes
Alex Shakar
Dawn Michelle Baude
Steve Tomasula
Brigid Pasulka
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Zoe Zolbrod
Gina Frangello