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All Alumni Books
Liz Ahl
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Beating the Bounds. Hobblebush Books 2017
Eve Alexandra
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The Drowned Girl. Kent State Press 2003
Winner of the 2002 Wick Poetry Prize
Rane Arroyo
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The Sky’s Weight. Turning Point Press 2009
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The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press 2008
Cameron Barnett
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The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water. Autumn House Press 2017
Winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Prize
Joseph Bathanti
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Land of Amnesia. Press 53 2009
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The High Heart. Eastern Washington University Press 2007
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They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists (1971-1995). North Carolina Arts Council 2007
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Coventry. Novello Festival Press 2006
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Anson County. Parkway Publishers 2005
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East Liberty. Banks Channel Books 2001
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This Metal. St. Andrews Press 1996Nominated for The National Book Award
Peter Beagle
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Sweet Lightning. Tachyon 2009
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We Never Talk About My Brother. Tachyon 2008
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The Line Between. Tachyon 2006
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A Dance for Emilia. Roc 2000
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Tamsin. Roc 1999
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The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances. Tachyon 1997
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Giant Bones. Roc 1997
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The Unicorn Sonata. Turner 1996
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In the Presence of Elephants. Capra Press 1995
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The Inkeeper's Song. Roc 1993
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The Folk of the Air. Ballantine Books/Del Rey 1986
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The Garden of Early Delights. Nonfiction 1982
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The Lady and Her Tiger. Dutton 1976
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The California Feeling. Doubleday 1969
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The Last Unicorn. Viking 1968
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I See By My Outfit. Viking 1965
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A Fine and Private Place. Viking 1960
Jan Beatty
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Jackknife. University of Pittsburgh Press 2017
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The Switching/Yard. University of Pittsburgh Press 2013
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Red Sugar. University of Pittsburgh Press 2008
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Boneshaker. University of Pittsburgh Press 2002
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Mad River. University of Pittsburgh Press 1994
Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Craig Bernier
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Your Life Idyllic: Stories. Black Lawrence 2014
St. Lawrence Book Award
CM Burroughs
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The Vital System. Tupelo Press 2012
Karen Rose Cercone
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Coal Bones. Berkeley 1999
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Blood Tracks. Berkeley 1998
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Steel Ashes. Berkeley 1997
Michael Chabon
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Moonglow. Harper 2016Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in FictionWinner of the Sophie Brody medalWall Street Journal's Best Novel of the YearNew York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Telegraph Avenue: A Novel. Harper 2012
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Maps and Legends. McSweeney’s 2008
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Gentlemen of the Road. Del Rey 2007
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The Yiddish Policeman’s Union: A Novel. HarperCollins 2007
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The Final Solution. The Fourth Estate 2004Winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award
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Summerland. Miramax/Hyperion 2002Winner of the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Picador 2001
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 -
Werewolves in Their Youth. Picador 2000
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Wonder Boys. Villard 1995
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A Model World and Other Stories. William Morrow & Co. 1991
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Harper Perenial 1989
Kazumi Chin
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Having a Coke with Godzilla. Sibling Rivalry Press 2017
Robin Clarke
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Lines the Quarry. Omnidawn 2013
Garnett Kilberg Cohen
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Lost Women, Banished Souls. University of Missouri Press 1996
Kristofer Collins
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The Liturgy of Streets. Six Gallery Press 2009
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King Everything. Six Gallery Press 2007
Katie Coyle
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Vivian Apple At the End Of the World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
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Paper Pavilion. White Pine Press 2007
Patricia Dobler
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Collected Poems. Autumn House Press 2005
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UXB. Mill Hunk Books 1991
Gwen Ebert
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The Little Bat Trainer. University Press of New England 2002
Winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry.
Kelly Forsythe
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Perennial. Coffee House Press 2018
Kathleen George
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A Measure of Blood. Open Road 2014
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Afterimage. St. Martin's 2007
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Fallen. Dell 2004
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Taken. Delacorte 2001
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The Man in the Buick. BKMK Press 1999
Lester Goran
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Outlaws of the Purple Cow, and Other Stories. Kent State University Press 1999
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Bing Crosby’s Last Song. Picador 1998
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She Loved Me Once, and Other Stories. Kent State University Press 1997
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Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories. Kent State University Press 1996
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The Bright Streets of Surfside: the Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer. Kent State University Press 1994
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Mrs. Beautiful. New Horizons Press 1985
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The Keeper of Secrets. McCall 1971
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The Demon in the Sun Parlor. New American Library 1968
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The Stranger in the Snow. New American Library 1966
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The Candy Butcher’s Farewell. McGraw-Hill 1964
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Maria Light. Houghton Mifflin 1962
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The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue. Houghton Mifflin 1961
Miriam Bird Greenburg
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In the Volcano's Mouth. University of Pittsburgh Press 2016
Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
Dave Griffith
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A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. Soft Skull Press 2006
Kathryn Miller Haines
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The Winter of Her Discontent. Harper 2008
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The War Against Miss Winter. Harper 2007
J.C. Hallman
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In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise. St. Martin’s 2010
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The Hospital for Bad Poets. Milkweed Editions 2009
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The Devil is a Gentleman. Random House 2006
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The Chess Artist. St. Martin’s Griffin 2004
Linda Lee Harper
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Kiss Kiss. Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2007
Winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition -
Toward Desire. Word Works 1996Winner of the 1995 Washington Prize for Poetry
Lizzie Harris
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Stop Wanting. Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2014
Bob Hartley
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North and Central. Tortoise Books 2017
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Following Tommy. Červená Barva Press 2012
Terrance Hayes
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How to Be Drawn. Penguin Poets 2015
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - PoetryNominated for the National Book Award for Poetry -
Lighthead . Penguin 2010
National Book Award for Poetry -
Wind in a Box. Penguin 2002
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Hip Logic. Penguin 2002
2001 National Poetry Series -
Muscular Music. Tia Chucha Press 1999
Winner of Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Tonya Cherie Hegamin
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M+O 4EVR. Houghton Mifflin 2008
Aubrey Hirsch
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Why We Never Talk About Sugar. Braddock Avenue Books 2012
Lori Jakiela
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Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life. Bottom Dog Press 2017
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Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe. Atticus Books 2015
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Miss New York Has Everything. Warner Books 2006
Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith
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Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters. Loyola Press 2012
Nancy Krygowski
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Velocity. University of Pittsburgh Press 2007
Winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Gregory Lawless
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Far Away. Red Mountain Press 2015
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I Thought I Was New Here. BlazeVOX 2009
Li-Young Lee
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Behind My Eyes. Norton 2008
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Book of My Nights. BOA Editions Ltd. 2001Winner of the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award
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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance. Simon and Schuster 1995Recipient of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
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The City in Which I Love You. BOA Editions Ltd. 19901990 Lamont Poetry Selection
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Rose. 1986Winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award
Lawrence Lenhardt
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The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage. Outpost19 2016
Anne Leonard
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Moth and Spark. Viking 2014
Michelle Lin
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A House Made of Water. Sibling Rivalry Pres 2017
Karin Lin-Greenberg
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Faulty Predictions. University of Georgia Press 2014
2013 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Thomas Lipinski
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Death in the Steel City. Avon 2000
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Steel City Confessions. Twilight 1999
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A Picture of Her Tombstone. St. Martin's 1996
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The Fall Down Artist. St. Martin's 1994
Sam MacDonald
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The Urban Hermit: A Memoir. St. Martin's 2008
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The Agony of an American Wilderness. Rowman & Littlefield 2005
Sangeeta Mall
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Flight of the Flamingo. Westland 2013
Jennifer Matesa
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Sex In Recovery: A Meeting Between the Covers. Hazelden Publishing 2016
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The Recovering Body: Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober. Hazelden Publishing 2014
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Knowing Stephanie. University of Pittsburgh Press 2003
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Navel-Gazing: The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making. Three Rivers Press 2001
Jane McCafferty
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Thank You for the Music. Tandem Library 2004
Mia McKenzie
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The Summer We Got Free. Black Girl Dangerous Press 2012
Sarah Menkedick
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Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm . Pantheon 2017
Dinty Moore
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Dear Mr. Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Love, Life, and Cannibals. Random House 2015
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The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life. Wisdom Publications 2012
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Between Panic and Desire. University of Nebraska Press 2008
Stephen Murabito
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Lowering the Body. Star Cloud Press 2008
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Communion of Asiago. Star Cloud Press 2006
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The Oswego Fugues. Star Cloud Press 2005
Micki Myers
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Trigger Finger. Pearl Editions 2003
Winner of the Pearl Prize for Poetry, judged by Jim Daniels
Kristin Naca
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Bird Eating Bird. Harper Collins 2009
Winner of the National Poetry Series Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa
Rachel Nagelberg
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The Fifth Wall. Black Sparrow Press 2017
Ron Nyswaner
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Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir. Advocate Books 2004
Peter Oresick
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Warhol-O-Rama!. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
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Definitions: Poems. West End Press 1990
Dennis Palumbo
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From Crime to Crime. Tallfellow Press 2008
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Writing From the Inside Out. John Wiley & Sons 2000
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City Wars. Bantam 1973
Salvatore Pane
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Last Call in the City of Bridges. Braddock Avenue Books 2012
Elena Passarello
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Animals Strike Curious Poses. Sarabande Books 2017
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Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays. Sarabande Books 2012
Craig Paulenich
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Drift of the Hunt. Nobodaddies Press 2006
Lisa Phillips
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Public Radio: Behind the Voices. CDS Books/Perseus 2006
Adriana Ramirez
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The Violence. Scribner 2018
Nancy Reddy
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Double Jinx. Milkweed Editions 2015
John Repp
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Gratitude. Cherry Grove 2005
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The Fertile Crescent. Cherry Grove 2004Winner of the 2003 Lyre Prize
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Thirst Like This. University of Missouri Press 1990Winner of the Devins Award
Priscilla Rodd
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Surviving Mae West. Vandalia Press 2006
Leslie Rubinkowski
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Impersonating Elvis. Faber & Faber 1997
Lauren Russell
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What’s Hanging on the Hush. Ahsahta Press 2017
Mike Scalise
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The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir. Sarabande 2017
Paul Siegell
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Poemergency Room. Otoliths Books 2008
Scott Silsbe
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Muskrat Friday Dinner. White Gorilla Press 2017
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Unattended Fire. Six Gallery Press 2012
Rebecca Skloot
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown/Random House 2010
Aaron Smith
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Blue on Blue Ground. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2005
Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Brandon Som
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The Tribute Horse. Nightboat Books 2015Winner of Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Ed Steck
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The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation . Ugly Duckling Presse 2013
Gerald Stern
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Save the Last Dance. Norton 2008
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Everything Is Burning. Norton 2005
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American Sonnets. Norton 2002
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Last Blue: Poems. Norton 2000
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This Time: New and Selected Poems. Norton 1998Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Poetry
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Odd Mercy. Norton 1995
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Bread Without Sugar. Norton 1992Winner of the Patterson Poetry Prize
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Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems. HarperCollins 1990
Robert Stevens
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Tiny Heroes, Tiny Villains. Sarabande Books 2019
John Temple
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American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic. Lyons Press 2015
John Temple
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Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office. University Press of Mississippi 2005
Robert L. Tonsetic
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Days of Valor: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War. Casemate 2007
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Warriors: An Infantryman’s Memoir of Vietnam. Random House 2004
Christopher Torockio
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The Truth at Daybreak. Carnegie Mellon University Press 2008
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Floating Holidays. Black Lawrence Press 2007
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Presence. Saint Andrews Press 1999
Sandy Tseng
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Sediment. Four Way Books 2009
Winner of the The Nation/Discovery Award
Judith Vollmer
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The Apollonia Poems. University of Wisconsin Press 2017
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Reactor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2004
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The Door Open to the Fire. Cleveland State University Press 1998
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Black Butterfly. Center for the Book Arts 1997
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Level Green. University of Wisconsin Press 1990Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry
Julie Marie Wade
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Catechism: A Love Story. Noctuary Press 2016
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Six. Red Hen Press 2016
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When I Was Straight. A Midsummer Night's Press 2014
Lynn Wagner
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No Blues This Raucous Song. Slapering Hol Press 2009
Stacey Waite
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Teaching Queer. University of Pittsburgh Press 2017
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Butch Geography. Tupelo Press 2014
Carole Waterhouse
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The Paradise Ranch. PublishAmerica 2002
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Without Wings. PublishAmerica 2001
Kellie Wells
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Fat Girl, Terrestrial. Fiction Collective 2 2012
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Skin. University of Nebraska Press 2006
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Compression Scars. University of Georgia Press 2002Winner of the Flannery O’Connor AwardGreat Lakes Colleges Association New Writers’ Award
Sarah Wexler
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Awful First Dates: Hysterical, True, and Heartbreakingly Bad. Sourcebooks Casblanca 2012
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Living Large. St. Martin's 2010
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Robert Stevens (Fiction MFA 2008)
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William Faulkner once said that few wish to write; most wish to have written. Pitt was where I fell in love with writing. Chuck Kinder was Director of the program, and he’d host legendary parties at his house in Squirrel Hill. It’s hard to explain how hanging out with Tobias Wolff or Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, affected me as a 23-year old writer. The program also brought Maxine Hong Kingston, ZZ Packer, and George Saunders to campus while I was there. Being around all these writers (in some cases, eating pizza with them at the scarred wooden table in the secret poker room of the Panther Hollow Inn) was intimidating, but I learned several things, chiefly that these successful people were much more well-read (and well-practiced) than I was, and I’d better get with the program.
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