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The 50 most recent Department of English M.F.A. Alumni books. Looking for a particular author, check out the Creative Writing M.F.A. alumni page.

  • This Strange Eventful History

    This Strange Eventful History, by Claire Messud, W. W. Norton & Company; (May 14, 2024), 448pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0393635041

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  • The Strange God Who Makes Us

    The Strange God Who Makes Us, by Christopher Kennedy, BOA Editions; (May 7, 2024), 87pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1960145185

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  • Their Divine Fires

    Their Divine Fires, by Wendy Chen, Algonquin Book; (May 7, 2024), 288pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1643755151

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  • Blessed Are the Rest of Us

    Blessed Are the Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole, by Micha Boyett, Brazos Press; (April 9, 2024), 204pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1587436291

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  • The Cemetery of Untold Stories

    The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books; (April 2, 2024), 227pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1643753843

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  • Dumb Luck & Other Poems

    Dumb Luck & Other Poems, by Christine Kitano, Texas Review Press; (February 20, 2024), 44pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1680033854

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  • Last Acts

    Last Acts, by Alexander Sammartino, Scribner; (January 23, 2024), 224pp, ISBN-13 : 9781982196745

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  • Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery

    Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, Scribner; (January 16, 2024), 304pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1668015544

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  • Feeding the Ghosts

    Feeding the Ghosts, by Rahul Mehta, The University of Kentucky Press; (January 5, 2024), 176pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0813198804

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  • Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods

    Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, by Jay Rogoff, LSU Press; (November 15, 2023), 256pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0807180112

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  • Death Prefers The Minor Keys

    Death Prefers The Minor Keys, by Sean Dougherty, BOA Editions Ltd.; (September 26, 2023), 112pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1960145062

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  • Tomb Sweeping: Stories

    Tomb Sweeping: Stories, by Alexandra Chang, Ecco; (August 8, 2023), 256pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0062951847

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  • Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness

    Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Arielle Greenberg, Beacon Press; (August 1, 2023), 280pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0807020210

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  • The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

    The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things, by Sean Dougherty, Kindle Edition; (July 24, 2023), 91pp, ASIN B0CCSQCD5G

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  • Not By Blood

    Not By Blood, by Chris Narozny, Crooked Lane Books; (July 18, 2023), 272pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1639103331

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  • Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

    Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint, by Lee Durkee, Scribner; (April 18, 2023), 272pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1982127145

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  • Elf Dog and Owl Head

    Elf Dog and Owl Head, by M. T. Anderson, Candlewick; (April 11, 2023), 240pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1536222814

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  • The 12th Commandment

    The 12th Commandment, by Daniel Torday, St. Martin's Press; (January 17, 2023), 304pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1250191816

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  • Bipolar Bear and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Health Insurance: A Fable for Grownups

    Bipolar Bear and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Health Insurance: A Fable for Grownups, by Kathleen Founds, Graphic Mundi; (November 1, 2022), 200pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1637790359

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  • Liberation Day

    Liberation Day: Stories, by George Saunders, Random House; (October 18, 2022), 256pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0525509592

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  • Mount Chicago

    Mount Chicago, by Adam Levin, Doubleday; (August 9, 2022), 592pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0385548243

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  • Raising Raffi: The First Five Years

    Raising Raffi: The First Five Years, by Keith Gessen, Viking; (June 7, 2022), 256pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0593300442

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  • Tracy Flick Can't Win

    Tracy Flick Can't Win, by Tom Perrotta, Scribner; (June 7, 2022), 272pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1501144065

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  • They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets

    They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, edited by Christine Kitano, Blue Oak Press; (June 3, 2022), 234pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0997504033

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  • Sleepwalk

    Sleepwalk: A Novel, by Dan Chaon, Henry Holt and Co.; (May 24, 2022), 320pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1250175212

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  • Asylum

    Asylum, by Nina Shope, Dzanc Books; (May 17, 2022), 194pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1950539512

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  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

    Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha, City Lights Publishers; (April, 2022), ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0872868601

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  • Dear Damage

    Dear Damage, by Ashley Farmer, Sarabande Books; (March 15, 2022), 200pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1946448903

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  • Shadowselves

    Shadowselves, by Jason Ockert, Dzanc Books; (February 22, 2022), 192pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1950539390

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  • Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography through Essays

    Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography through Essays, by Claire Messud, W. W. Norton & Company; (February 8, 2022), 336pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0393882483

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  • The Apology

    The Apology, by Christian TeBordo, Astrophil Press; (November 30, 2021), 178pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0998019956

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  • Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays

    Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, by Steve Fellner, Mad Creek Books; (November 4, 2021), 242pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0814258071

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  • Lost, Hurt, Or in Transit Beautiful,

    Lost, Hurt, Or in Transit Beautiful, by Rohan Chhetri, Tupelo Press; (October 1,2021), 60pp, ISBN-13 ‏: ‎978-1946482549

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  • The Hunters

    The Hunters, by Claire Messud, W. W. Norton & Company; (August 3, 2021), 208pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0393541816

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  • Dead Ends, Detours, Blind Curves and a Roundabout Road Home

    Dead Ends, Detours, Blind Curves and a Roundabout Road Home, by Ed Tato, Spartan Press; (July 30, 2021), 154pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1952411373

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  • Alien Stories

    Alien Stories, by E. C. Osondu, BOA Editions Ltd.; (May 11, 2021), 200pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1950774319

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  • Mister Toebones

    Mister Toebones, by Brooks Haxton, Knopf; (March 23, 2021), 120pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0593318522

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  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, by George Saunders, Random House; (January 12, 2012), 432pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1984856029

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  • A Better Place is Hard to Find

    A Better Place Is Hard to Find, by Aaron Fagan, The Song Cave; (October 1, 2020), 84pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1734035155

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  • The Daughters of Ys

    The Daughters of Ys, by M. T. Anderson, First Second; (August 11, 2020), 208pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1626728783

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  • Explain This Corpse

    Explain This Corpse, by Kirsten Kaschock, Lynx House Press; (June 15, 2020), 80pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0899241746

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  • Bubblegum

    Bubblegum, by Adam Levin, Doubleday; (April 14, 2020), 784pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0385544962

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  • Afterlife

    Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books; (April 7, 2020), 272pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1643750255

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  • Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems

    Loving in Truth, by Jay Rogoff, LSU Press; (April 1, 2020), 248pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0807172049

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  • Days of Distraction

    Days of Distraction: A Novel, by Alexandra Chang, Ecco; (February 16, 2021), 320pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0062951793

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  • Not All Saints

    Not All Saints, by Sean Dougherty, The Bitter Oleander Press; (March 10, 2020), 80pp, ISBN-13 : 978-0999327975

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  • The Last Taxi Driver

    The Last Taxi Driver, by Lee Durkee, Tin House Books; (March 3, 2020), 280pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1947793392

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  • Barn 8

    Barn 8, by Deb Olin Unferth, Graywolf Press; (March 3, 2020), 256pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1644450154

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  • Alias City

    Alias City, by Carol Frost, Madhat, Inc.; (January 27, 2020), 78pp, ISBN-13 : 978-1941196953

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  • Pagan Virtues: Poems

    Pagan Virtues: Poems, by Stephen Dunn, W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (November 19, 2019), 96pp., ISBN-13: 978-1324002314

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