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. Explore the titles below to see a few featured works:
Jessica Abughattas
Strip
(University of Arkansas Press, 2020)
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
(Sundress Publications, 2016)
Gayle Brandeis
The Art of Misdiagnosis
(Beacon Press, 2017)
Gayle Brandeis
The Selfless Bliss of the Body
(Finishing Line Press, 2017)
F. Douglas Brown
Zero to Three
(University of Georgia Press, 2014)
Shonda Buchanan
Black Indian
(Wayne State University Press, 2019)
Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Fire Eater
(Texas A&M University Press, 2020)
Anna Dorn
Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder
(Hachette Books, 2021)
Elizabeth Earley
Like Wings, Your Hands
(Red Hen Press, 2021)
Joe Jiménez
Rattlesnake Allegory
(Red Hen Press, 2019)
Toni Ann Johnson
Remedy for a Broken Angel
(Nortia Press, 2014)
Aimee Liu Kellor
Glorious Boy
(Red Hen Press, 2020)
Anne Liu Kellor
Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging
She Writes Press (September 7, 2021)
Cassandra Lane
We Are Bridges
(The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2021)
Jillian Lauren
Everything You Ever Wanted
(Plum, 2015)
Roberto Lovato
Unforgetting
(Harper Collins, 2020)
Malia Márquez
This Fierce Blood
(Acre Books, 2021)
Kate Maruyama
Harrowgate
(47 North, 2014)
Alistair McCartney
Lambda Literary Award Finalist 2017
Winner of the 2018 Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
The Disintegrations
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Todd Mitchell
The Last Panther
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2017)
Jennifer Morales
Meet Me Halfway
(University of Wisconsin, 2015)
Bernadette Murphy
Harley and Me
(Counterpoint Books, 2017 reprint)
Daniel José Older
The Book of Lost Saints
(Imprint, 2019)
Daniel José Older
New York Times Bestselling author of
Shadowshaper
(Scholastic, 2016)
Shadowhouse Fall
(Arthur Levine Books, 2017)
Daniel José Older
Dactyl Hill Squad
(Arthur A. Levine Books, 2020)
Wendy Ortiz
Excavation
(Future Tense Books, 2014)
Khadijah Queen
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
(YesYes Books, 2017)
Khadijah Queen
Anodyne
(Tin House Books, 2020)
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Annie and the Wolves
(Soho Press, 2021)
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Plum Rains
(Soho Press, 2018)
Anna K. Scotti
Big and Bad
(Texas Review Press, 2020)
Leonora Simonovis
Study of the Raft
Colorado Prize for Poetry
(Center for Literary Publishing 2021)
Susan Southard
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
(Penguin Books, 2015)
Cecilia Woloch
Earth
(Two Sylvias Press, 2014)
Melissa Chadburn
A Tiny Upward Shove
Barbara Fant
Mouths of Garden
Aliah Lavonne Tigh
Weren’t We Natural Swimmers
Anna Dorn
Exalted
Jennifer Calkin
Fugitive Assemblage
Claudia D. Hernandez
Knitting the Fog
Reyna Grande
A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande
A Balad of Love and Glory