Alumni
Many of the graduates of our MFA Program have gone on to distinguished writing careers.
Elisa Albo, Passage to America, poems, March St. Press
Preston L. Allen, Hoochie Mama, novel; Churchboys & Other Sinners, novel, Carolina Wren Press, winner of the Carolina Wren Prize.
Sandra Rodriguez Barron, The Heiress of Water, novel. Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Borders Original Voices Selection, Booksense Notable.
Steve Benz, Guatemalan Journey, nonfiction; Green Dreams: Travels in Central America, nonfiction.
Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires, poems, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Nowhere but Here, Hill-Stead Museum; Directions to the Beach of the Dead, University of Arizona Press.
Lynn Bonasia, Some Assembly Required, novel, Simon & Schuster (forthcoming June 2008).
Susan Briante, Pioneers in the Study of Motion, poems, Ahsahta Press, http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/briante/briante-bio.htm
Anthony Gagliano, Straits of Fortune, Harper Collins http://anthonygagliano.net/
Vicki Hendricks, Miami Purity, novel, (brought out in a new edition by Busted Flush Press, with Foreword by Ken Bruen & afterward by Megan Abbott discussing how influential this book has been in starting the contemporary resurgence of noir. http://www.bustedflushpress.com/reprints.php); Iguana Love, novel, St. Martin's Minotaur; Sky Blues, novel Serpent's Tail; Voluntary Madness, novel Serpent's Tail; Cruel Poetry, novel, Serpent's Tail.
Marjorie Klein, Test Pattern, novel, William Morrow.
Christine Kling, Surface Tension, novel, A Mystery Guild Featured Alternate Selection, Ballantine Books; Cross Current, Ballantine Books; Bitter End, Ballantine Books; Wrecker's Key, Ballantine Books.
Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; Darkness Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone Baby Gone (made into a feature film directed by Ben Affleck); Prayers for Rain, a New York Times Notable Book; Mystic River (made into a feature film directed by Clint Eastwood); and Shutter Island; Coronado: Stories, William Morrow.
Jesse Millner, The Saturday After the Rapture, poems, Main Street Rag Press; I Give You This Ghost, poems, Pudding House Press.
Craig Miller, Chester Stubbs, novel, Dennis McMillan Pubns.
Norm Minnick, To Taste the Water, a collection of poetry, MidList Press.
Leonard Nash, You Can't Get There from Here, Kitsune Books, winner of the Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for General Fiction.
Kitty Oliver, Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl, nonfiction, University Press of Kentucky; editor of Race and Change in Hollywood Florida: Voices of America, nonfiction, Arcadia Publishers.
Barbara Parker, Suspicion of Innocence, Edgar Award finalist; Blood Relations; Criminal Justice; Suspicion of Guilt; Suspicion of Betrayal; Suspicion of Deceit; Suspicion of Malice; Suspicion of Vengeance; Suspicion of Madness; Suspicion of Rage; The Perfect Fake.
Neil Plakcy, Invasion of the Blatniks, Xlibris Corporation; Mahu Surfer, Haworth Press; Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog (editor with Sharon Sakson), Alyson Books.
Sandy Rodriguez Barron, The Heiress of Water, Rayo, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Book, 2007 International Latino Book Awards and Borders Original Voices Selection, Booksense Notable.
Nina Romano--Cooking Lessons, poems, Rock Press, (Miami Herald interview)
Virginia Rorby, Dolphin Sky, a young adult novel, Library Binding; Hurt Go Happy, Starscape, chosen as one of the top 100 books to read and share by the New York Public Library in 2007 for its wonderful description of a deaf young teen.
Jay Snodgrass, Monster Zero, poems, Elixir Press; The Underflower, poems, WordTech.
Laura Valeri, The Kind of Things Saints Do, collection of short stories, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
Accolades
John Bond's story "T-bird" is in Best American Mysteries 2007
George Tucker has a story in Fantasy & Science Fiction
Mitch Alderman has had several stories in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, one a Shamus Award finalist.