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:
Jessica Abughattas
Strip Etel Adnan Poetry Prize (University of Arkansas Press, 2020)
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications, 2016)
ESTHER G. BELIN
Of Cartography (The University of Arizona Press, 2017)
Gayle Brandeis
The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide (Beacon Press, 2017)
Lisa Brooks
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press, 2018)
F. Douglas Brown
Icon (Writ Large Press, 2018)
F. Douglas Brown
Zero to Three Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2014)
Shonda Buchanan
Black Indian (Wayne State University Press, 2019)
Melissa Chadburn
A Tiny Upward Shove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021)
Stacey Chaiken
The Dig (UCLA Gloria Kaufman Theater, 2019)
Joan Dempsey
This is How It Begins (She Writes Press, 2017)
Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Fire Eater (Texas A&M University Press, 2020)
Anna Dorn
Exalted (Unnamed Press, 2022)
Anna Dorn
Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder (Hachette Books, 2021)
Elizabeth Earley
Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press, 2021)
Barbara Fant
Mouths of Garden (Sundress Publications, 2022)
Reyna Grande
A Ballad of Love and Glory (Atria Books, 2022)
Reyna Grande
A Dream Called Home (Atria Books, 2018)
Claudia D. Hernandez
Knitting the Fog (The Feminist Press, 2019)
Joe Jiménez
Rattlesnake Allegory (Red Hen Press, 2019)
Toni Ann Johnson
Light Skin Gone to Waste Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2022)
Anne Liu Kellor
Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (She Writes Press, 2021)
Tanya Ko Hong (Hyonhye)
The War Still Within (Kyso Flash, 2019)
Cassandra Lane
We Are Bridges Louise Meriweather First Book Prize (The Feminist Press, 2021)
Jillian Lauren
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir (Plum, 2015)
Aimee Liu
Glorious Boy (Red Hen Press, 2020)
Roberto Lovato
Unforgetting (Harper Collins, 2020)
Christina Lynch
The Italian Party (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
Malia Márquez
This Fierce Blood (Acre Books, 2021)
Alistair McCartney
The Disintegrations: A Novel Winner of the 2018 Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Bernadette Murphy
Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life (Counterpoint Press, 2016)
Daniel José Older
Dactyl Hill Squad (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2020)
Daniel José Older
Shadowhouse Fall (Scholastic, 2017)
Wendy Ortiz
Excavation (Future Tense Books, 2014)
Khadijah Queen
Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020)
Shannon C.F. Rogers
I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom (Fiewel & Friends, 2023)
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Annie and the Wolves (Soho Press, 2021)
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)
Tammy Lynne Stoner
Sugar Land (Red Hen Press, 2018)
