Books by Creative Writing Alumnae and Alumni
Monument in a Summer Hat (New Issues Press, 1999)
Blue Lash (Milkweed Editions, 2006)
Await Your Reply (Ballantine Books, 2009)
You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine Books, 2005)
Among the Missing (Ballantine Books, 2002)
Fitting Ends (Ballantine Books, 2003)
Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago (Thomas Dunne Books, 2000)
The Mean Days (Tia Chucha, 2001)
SILKIE (Many Mountains Moving, 2007)
Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America (Yale University Press, 2009)
Amanda DeMarco (2008)
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Sean Enright (1982)
My People, Selected Poems 1990-2012 (2012)
Nearly True, A Novel (2012)
Goof and Other Stories (2011)
Cristina Henríquez (1999)
Come Together, Fall Apart (Riverhead Books,
2006)
The World in Half (Riverhead Trade, 2009)
Angela Mears (2010)
nominated by Saveur Magazine for "Best Piece of Culinary Writing"
Crown and Ribs (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2007)
Ben Oswest (Ben Williams)
The New Suffolk Hymn Book (Jacana Media, 2008)
A Year and a Day (Avon Books, 2005)
Pears on a Willow Tree (William Morrow, 1999)
Methland (Bloomsbury, 2010)
The Last Cowboys at the End of the World (Crown, 2001)
Divergent (Harper Collins, 2011) Movie rights: Summit Entertainment
Insurgent (Harper Collins, 2012)
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Knopf, 2006)
Swamplandia! (Knopf, 2011) Chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2011
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf, 2013)
published three poems in the November 2010 issue of Poetry Magazine
We dollhouse monsters
We had decided with Cocteau
The Late Show
Read all three poems here
Fowling Piece (Northwestern University Press, 2012)
The World’s Room (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
From the Book of Giants (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
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Alumni News
Heidy Steidlmayer was awarded Ploughshares' 2012 John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her poetry collection Fowling Piece (Triquarterly Books, 2011)
Christopher Shannon was awarded a 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship
Laura Leichum was awarded the 2010 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for her translations from Gisela Kraft.
Karen Russell's Swamplandia is chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2011
Karen Russell's Swamplandia was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
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English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
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Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation
