MFA in Creative Writing alumni have published an extraordinary body of work across all literary genres. Here are a few featured books:

Daniel José Older
New York Times Bestselling author of
Shadowshaper
(Scholastic, 2016)
Shadowhouse Fall
(Arthur Levine Books, 2017)



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)

Bernadette Murphy
Harley and Me
(Counterpoint Books, 2017 reprint)

Gayle Brandeis
The Art of Misdiagnosis
(Beacon Press, 2017)

Gayle Brandeis
The Selfless Bliss of the Body
(Finishing Line Press, 2017)

Todd Mitchell
The Last Panther
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2017)

Andromeda Romano-Lax
Plum Rains
(Soho Press, 2018)

Cecilia Woloch
Earth
(Two Sylvias Press, 2014)

Kate Maruyama
Harrowgate
(47 North, 2014)

Wendy Ortiz
Excavation
(Future Tense Books, 2014)

Jennifer Morales
Meet Me Halfway
(University of Wisconsin, 2015)

Toni Ann Johnson
Remedy for a Broken Angel
(Nortia Press, 2014)

Khadijah Queen
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
(YesYes Books, 2017)

Susan Southard
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
(Penguin Books, 2015)