D.A. Powell's new book of poems, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, published by Graywolf Press in 2012, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Dave Madden will be joining the MFA Program as a full-time nonfiction instructor.
Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will be joining the MFA Program as a writer-in-residence for 2013-14. Next year poet Bruce Snider will also be joining us.
Faculty
For more information and live links to interviews, readings, reviews, and author websites visit the faculty bio page and click on a faculty member's name.
Stephen Beachy's novel, boneyard, published by Verse Chorus Press in 2011, was listed by the Huffington Post as one of 11 Fall Books You Need To Know About.
Catherine Brady’s short story collection, The Mechanics of Falling, won the 2010 Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillian in 2011.
Lewis Buzbee’s The Haunting of Charles Dickens was
nominated for an Edgar Award for the best mystery novel for young readers and chosen
as a Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book by the Women’s National Book Association.
It also won the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Children’s Literature. His new novel, Bridge of Time, was published by Feiwel and Friends in 2012.
Norma Cole's To Be At Music: Essays & Talks was published by Omnidawn in 2010. A Woman with Several Lives by Jean Davie, translated by Cole, was published by La Presse in 2012. Her new book of poems, Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, was published by Omnidawn in 2012.
Lisa Harper’s A Double Life: Discovering
Motherhood, published by the University of Nebraska Press, won the 2010 River
Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction and was named one of the Best Small Press Books of 2011 on Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle. Foreign rights/translations have also been sold in Italy, Brazil, Taiwan, and Poland.
Joshua Mohr's new novel, Fight Song, was published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull in 2013.
Nina Schuyler's new novel, The Translator, is forthcoming from Pegasus Books in 2013.
Aaron Shurin’s
new book of poems, Citizen, was published by City Lights Books in 2012.
K.M. Soehnlein’s novel Robin and Ruby was
published by Kensington in 2011. Robin and Ruby and his novel, The World of Normal Boys, were acquired by Taiwanese publisher Soul Mate for translation
into Chinese language editions.
Susan Steinberg
is the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. Her new collection of short stories, Spectacle, was published by Graywolf Press in 2013.
Laura Walker's new book of poems, Follow-Haswed, was published by Apogee Press in 2012.
Staff
Administrative Director, Micah Ballard’s second book
of poems, Waifs and Strays, (City Lights Books, 2011) was a finalist for the 2012 California Book Award.
Alumni
Jane Porter's (94') new novel, The Good Woman was published by Penquin in 2012.
Amy Novesky's (96') book Me, Frida was awarded the 2011 FOCAL Award from the Friends of Children and Literature at the Central Los Angeles Public Library.
George Dohrmann's
(’06), Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth
Basketball Machine, won the $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports
Writing for a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2010.
Jen Larsen's ('06) new book, Stranger Here: How Weight Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed With My Head was published by Seal Press in 2013. Larsen was also interviewed about her book on MSNBC.
Craig Santos Perez (’06) received the 2011 PEN Center
USA Literary Award for Poetry for his second book of poetry, from unincorporated
territory [saina], published by Omnidawn. His first book, from
unincorporated territory [hacha] won the 2010 Poets & Writers California
Writer’s Exchange Award. Perez was chosen to represent Guam at Poetry Parnassus, a weeklong festival during the London 2012 Olympics.
Nick Krieger’s (’07) memoir, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, was published by Beacon Press in 2011.
Thomas Peele's ('07') new book, Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assasination of a Journalist, was published by Random House in 2012. Peele was recently reviewed for his new book on KQED by Michael Krasney.
Harbeer Sandhu (’08) was awarded an Individual Artist
Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance/City of Houston to draft a new novel. He was also awarded a garnt from the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program.
Maury Zeff (’08) was named a finalist for 2011 The
American Fiction Prize, sponsored by New Rivers Press at Minnesota State
University at Moorhead, for his story “The Beautiful Moment.”
Deborah Bloch's ('09) novel That Old Song and Dance was published by Barbarian Books in 2012.
Julie Anderson Love’s (’09) new book, Disrupted,
was published by Cascade Books in 2011.
Chris Malcomb ('09) received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his essay "Learning to Breathe" published in Under the Sun in 2012.
Catherine Sharpe (’09) was named a finalist for the
2011 Montana Prize for Creative Nonfiction for her piece “One Thousand Kittens.”
C. Adán Cabrera (’10) was selected as a 2011
Lambda Literary Fellow.
Chris Carosi’s
(’11) first chapbook of poems, bright veil, was published by New Fraktur
Press in 2011.
Ganga Dharmappa ('11) received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train's 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers for her story "Sage Advice."
Alex Rieser's (’12) first chapbook of poems, Emancipator, was published by New Fraktur Press in 2011.
Aaron Francis ('13) won the 2013 AWP Intro/Journals award for his story "Megan's Home."
