Featured Alumni Publications and Projects

MFA in Creative Writing

The alumni of Antioch University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing have published an extraordinary body of work across all literary genres and beyond. Explore the titles below to see a few featured works:

Strip
Jessica Abughattas

Strip Etel Adnan Poetry Prize (University of Arkansas Press, 2020)

Posada offering of witness and refuge book cover
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications, 2016)

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ESTHER G. BELIN

Of Cartography (The University of Arizona Press, 2017)

The Art of Misdiagnosis
Gayle Brandeis

The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide (Beacon Press, 2017) 

Our Beloved Kin Cover
Lisa Brooks

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press, 2018)

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F. Douglas Brown

Icon  (Writ Large Press, 2018)

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F. Douglas Brown

Zero to Three Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2014)

Black Indian book cover
Shonda Buchanan

Black Indian  (Wayne State University Press, 2019)

A cover of a book - yellow with blue and red plants overlaid. "A Tiny Upward Shove Melissa Chadburn"
Melissa Chadburn

A Tiny Upward Shove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021)

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Stacey Chaiken

The Dig  (UCLA Gloria Kaufman Theater, 2019)

This is How it Begins
Joan Dempsey

This is How It Begins (She Writes Press, 2017)

The Fire Eater
Jose Hernandez Diaz

The Fire Eater (Texas A&M University Press, 2020)

A book cover - electric pink with black symbols of stars and two hands, one holding a moon and another holding a sun. "Exalted" by Anna Dorn
Anna Dorn

Exalted (Unnamed Press, 2022)

Bad Lawyer book cover
Anna Dorn

Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder (Hachette Books, 2021)

Like Wings, Your Hands
Elizabeth Earley

Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press, 2021)

"Mouths of Garden" by Barbara Fant
Barbara Fant

Mouths of Garden (Sundress Publications, 2022)

"A Ballad of Love and Glory" by Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande

A Ballad of Love and Glory (Atria Books, 2022)

"A Dream Called Home" book by Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande

A Dream Called Home  (Atria Books, 2018)

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Claudia D. Hernandez

Knitting the Fog (The Feminist Press, 2019)

Rattle Snake Allegory book cover
Joe Jiménez

Rattlesnake Allegory (Red Hen Press, 2019)

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Toni Ann Johnson

Light Skin Gone to Waste Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2022)

Heart Radical book cover
Anne Liu Kellor

Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (She Writes Press, 2021)

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Tanya Ko Hong (Hyonhye)

The War Still Within (Kyso Flash, 2019)

We Are Bridges
Cassandra Lane

We Are Bridges Louise Meriweather First Book Prize (The Feminist Press, 2021)

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Jillian Lauren

Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir (Plum, 2015)

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Aimee Liu

Glorious Boy (Red Hen Press, 2020)

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
Roberto Lovato

Unforgetting (Harper Collins, 2020)

The Italian Party, by Christina Lynch book cover
Christina Lynch

The Italian Party (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)

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Malia Márquez

This Fierce Blood (Acre Books, 2021)

The Disintegrations
Alistair McCartney

The Disintegrations: A Novel Winner of the 2018 Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017)

Harley and Me
Bernadette Murphy

Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life (Counterpoint Press, 2016)

Dactyl Hill Squad, book by Daniel Jose Older
Daniel José Older

Dactyl Hill Squad (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2020)

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Daniel José Older

Shadowhouse Fall (Scholastic, 2017)

Evacuation Book Jacket
Wendy Ortiz

Excavation (Future Tense Books, 2014)

Anodyne
Khadijah Queen

Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020)

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Shannon C.F. Rogers

I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom (Fiewel & Friends, 2023)

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Andromeda Romano-Lax

Annie and the Wolves (Soho Press, 2021)

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Anna K. Scotti

Big and Bad (Texas Review Press, 2020)

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Leonora Simonovis

Study of the Raft Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2021)

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Tammy Lynne Stoner

Sugar Land (Red Hen Press, 2018)

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Yuvi Zalkow

I Only Cry with Emoticons (Red Hen Press, 2022)

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