The Department of Creative Writing prides itself upon student success. Our students and alumni have published more than 200 books and chapbooks.
The list of prizes and books goes on and on—and with publishers such as HarperCollins, St. Martins, Algonquin, Viking, Ballantine, Morrow, Random House, Simon and Schuster, and more.
In addition to books, alumni have published many hundreds of poems, stories, essays, and reviews in prominent and vital venues.
Indeed, here are a few of the magazines with which recent students published while still in the program: The Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, Agni, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Passages North, Oxford American, River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre; The Paris Review Daily, Poetry International, Granta Online, and The Nation.
Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (MFA '07)
Lavonne J. Adams (MFA '99)
Xhenet Aliu (MFA '07)
Peter C. Baker (MFA '14)
Meghan Barnes (MFA '11)
Anne Clinard Barnhill (MFA '01)
Thomas Scott Benedict (BFA '08)
George Bishop, Jr. (MFA '01)
Emma Bolden (MFA '05)
Michelle Boyajian (MFA '05)
Jason Bradford (MFA '16) - A Celebration of Jason Bradford
Dan Camacho (MFA '09)
Emily Carr (MFA '04)
Bill Carty (MFA '07)
Jonathan Russell Clark (MFA '16)
Sarah Creech (BFA '05)
Patrick Culliton (MFA '06)
Kate Cumiskey (MFA '06)
Samantha Deal (MFA '13)
Daren Dean (MFA '03)
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye (MFA ’15)
Brian Devido (MFA '01)
Regina DiPerna (MFA '13)
Alexa Doran (MFA '15)
Kevin Dublin (BFA '10)
Jason Frye (MFA '05)
Adam Gnuse (MFA '19)
Nina de Gramont (MFA '06)
Evan Gray (MFA '17)
Dina Greenberg (MFA '11)
David Harris-Gershon (MFA '09)
Eli Hastings (MFA '04)
Jeremy Hawkins (MFA '11)
Joy Hewett (MA '91)
Ben Hoffman (MFA '13)
Kirsten Holmstedt (MFA '06)
Elizabeth King Humphrey (MFA '03)
Rochelle Hurt (MFA '11)
Erato Ioannou (MFA '01)
Graham Irvin (MFA '18)
Ever Jones (MFA '08)
Nancy J. Jones (MFA '98)
Shawna Kenney (MFA '07)
Gwendolyn Knapp (MFA '06)
Keith Kopka (MFA '11)
Drew Krepp (MFA '15)
Brad Land (MFA '02)
Johannes Lichtman (MFA '12)
Martha Lundin (MFA '17)
Robert Dean Lurie (MFA '05)
Josh MacIvor-Andersen (MFA ’11)
Catherine McCall (MFA '03)
Corinne Manning (MFA '10)
JM Miller (MFA '08)
Jacob Steven Mohr (BFA ’16)
Amelia Morris (MFA '09)
Jamie Mortara (MFA '13)
Jason Mott (MFA '08)
Ariana Nadia Nash (MFA '11)
Yvette Neisser Moreno (MFA '00)
Brenda Nicholas (MFA '15)
Derek Nikitas (MFA '00)
Ali Nolan (MFA '14)
Leah Poole Osowski (MFA '14)
Miriam Parker (MFA '08)
Rebecca Petruck (MFA '07)
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (MFA '17)
Dawn Evans Radford (MFA '99)
Cindy Horrell Ramsey (MFA '06)
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. (MFA '00)
Carmen Rodrigues (MFA '10)
Jane Virginia Rohrer (MFA '18)
Anne Russell (MFA '99)
Dana Sachs (MFA '00)
E.J. Schwartz (MFA '21)
Kristina M. Serrano (BFA '12)
Ryan Spooner (BFA '09)
Megan Starks (MFA '10)
Faydra Stratton (MFA '03)
Barbara Sullivan (MFA '11)
Anna B. Sutton (MFA '13)
Kate Sweeney (MFA '09)
Gabriella Tallmadge (MFA '13)
Daniel Nathan Terry (MFA '10)
Jessica Thummel (MFA '12)
Eric Tran (MFA '13)
Matt Tullis (MFA '05)
Jay Varner (MFA '07)
Carson Vaughan (MFA '14)
Jesse Waters (MFA '02)
Caitlyn Webber (BFA '10)
Hannah Bunn West (BFA '09)
Cheryl Wilder (BFA '05)
Emily Paige Wilson (MFA '16)
Sidney Wollmuth (BFA '22)
Snežana Žabić (MFA '05)
Emma Bolden (MFA '05)
Jason Bradford (MFA '16)
Kate Cumiskey (MFA '06)
Daren Dean (MFA '03)
Martha Lundin (MFA '17)
Rochelle Hurt (MFA '11)
Mamie Morgan (MFA ’06)
Leah Poole Osowski (MFA '14)
Eric Tran (MFA '13)
Emily Paige Wilson (MFA '16)