Featured Alumni Publications

Jessica Abughattas

Strip

(University of Arkansas Press, 2020)

Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

ESTHER G. BELIN

Of Cartography

(The University of Arizona Press, 2017)

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites 

(Mouthfeel Press, 2023)

Gayle Brandeis

The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide

(Beacon Press, 2017) 

Gayle Brandeis

Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss

(Overcup Press, 2023)

Lisa Brooks

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War

(Yale University Press, 2018)

F. Douglas Brown

Icon 

(Writ Large Press, 2018)

F. Douglas Brown

Zero to Three

(University of Georgia Press, 2014)

Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Shonda Buchanan

Black Indian 

(Wayne State University Press, 2019)

Shonda Buchanan

The Lost Songs of Nina Simone

(Running Wild Press, 2025)

Melissa Chadburn

A Tiny Upward Shove

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021)

Longlist for 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award 

Grant Chemidlin

What We Lost in the Swamp  

(Central Avenue Publishing, 2023)

Finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 

Joan Dempsey

This is How It Begins

(She Writes Press, 2017)

Jose Hernandez Diaz

 Bad Mexican, Bad American 

(Acre Books, 2024)

Jose Hernandez Diaz

Portrait of the Artist as A Brown Man 

(Red Hen Press, 2025)

Anna Dorn

Exalted

(Unnamed Press, 2022)

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Anna Dorn

Perfume and Pain

(Simon and Schuster, 2024)

Elizabeth Earley

Like Wings, Your Hands

(Red Hen Press, 2021)

Jessica Elisheva Emerson

 Olive Days 

(Counterpoint, 2024)

2025 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction and

Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award

Barbara Fant

Mouths of Garden

(Sundress Publications, 2022)

John Seibert Farnsworth

Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature Writing

(Michigan State University Press, 2025)

Lisa Freeman

Honey Girl

(Skypony, 2017)

Reyna Grande

A Ballad of Love and Glory

(Atria Books, 2022)

Reyna Grande

A Dream Called Home 

(Atria Books, 2018)

Claudia D. Hernandez

Knitting the Fog

(The Feminist Press, 2019)

Joe Jiménez

Rattlesnake Allegory

(Red Hen Press, 2019)

Toni Ann Johnson

Light Skin Gone to Waste

(University of Georgia Press, 2022)

Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

Anne Liu Kellor

Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging

(She Writes Press, 2021)

Tanya Ko Hong (Hyonhye)

The War Still Within

(Kyso Flash, 2019)

Cassandra Lane

We Are Bridges

(The Feminist Press, 2021)

Louise Meriweather First Book Prize

Jillian Lauren

Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

(Plum, 2015)

Aimee Liu

Glorious Boy

(Red Hen Press, 2020)

Roberto Lovato

Unforgetting

(Harper Collins, 2020)

Christina Lynch

The Italian Party

(St. Martin's Press, 2018)

Malia Márquez

City of Smoke and Sea

(Red Hen, 2025)

Alistair McCartney

The Disintegrations: A Novel

(University of Wisconsin Press, 2017)

Winner of the 2018 Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Sara Phoebe Miller

You Belong Here

(First Second, 2025)

Bernadette Murphy

Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life

(Counterpoint Press, 2016)

Daniel José Older

Last Canto of the Dead

(Rick Riordan, 2023)

Daniel José Older

The Book of Lost Saints

(MacMillan, 2019)

Wendy Ortiz

Excavation

(Future Tense Books, 2014; reprint, NU Press, 2025.)

Wendy Ortiz

Hollywood Notebook

(Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015; reprint, NU Press, 2025.)

Tom Pyun

Something Close to Nothing

(Amble Press, 2024)

Khadijah Queen

Anodyne

(Tin House Books, 2020)

Shannon C.F. Rogers

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

(Fiewel & Friends, 2023)

2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Youth Literature

Andromeda Romano-Lax

Annie and the Wolves

(Soho Press, 2021)

Andromeda Romano-Lax

The Deepest Lake 

(Soho Press, 2024)

Anna K. Scotti

Big and Bad

(Texas Review Press, 2020)

Leonora Simonovis

Study of the Raft

(Center for Literary Publishing, 2021)

Colorado Prize for Poetry

Tammy Lynne Stoner

Sugar Land

(Red Hen Press, 2018)

Cecilia Woloch

Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem

(Two Sylvias, 2018)

Yuvi Zalkow

I Only Cry with Emoticons

(Red Hen Press, 2022)