Creative Writing Alumni Publications

Our program alumni have published at an extraordinary rate. They have received honors such as the Walt Whitman Award, the Rome Prize, the James Laughlin Award, the National Poetry Series, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and the Barnard Women Poets Prize, as well as Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. Their books have been published by Bloomsbury, Copper Canyon, Graywolf, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s, Penguin, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Tin House Books, Viking, and W. W. Norton.

  • Becky Adnot-Haynes, PhD 2014
    The Year of Perfect Happiness
    , Univ. of North Texas, 2014, Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize
  • Austin Allen, PhD 2020
    The Travels of Blad J. Garamond
    , Measure, forthcoming 
    Pleasures of the Game, Waywiser, 2016, Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
  • Lisa Ampleman, PhD 2013
    Mom in Space
    . LSU, 2024
    Romances, LSU, 2020
    Full Cry
    , NFSPS, 2013, Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition
    I've Been Collecting This to Tell You
    , Kent State, 2012, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Ashley Anderson, PhD 2017
    Sifting the Feminine Bones: Essays, U of Georgia, forthcoming 
  • José Angel Araguz, PhD 2017
    Ruin & Want, Sundress, 2023
    Rotura, Black Lawrence, 2022
    An Empty Pot's Darkness, Airlie, 2019
    Until We Are Level Again
    , Mongrel Empire, 2018
    Small Fires
    , FutureCycle, 2017
    The Book of Flight
    , Essay Press, 2016
    Everything We Think We Hear
    , Floricanto, 2015
  • Cynthia Arrieu-King, PhD 2008
    The Betweens
    , Noemi, 2021
    Continuity
    , Octopus Books, 2019
    Futureless Languages
    , Radiator, 2018
    Manifest
    , Switchback Books, 2013, Winner of the Gatewood Prize
    By a Year Lousy
    with Meteors, Dream Horse, 2012, Winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize (with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis)
    People Are Tiny in Paintings of China
    , Octopus Books, 2010
  • Joseph Bates, PhD 2006
    The Strikeout Artist, BlazeVOX Books, 2022
    Tomorrowland, Curbside Splendor, 2013
    The Nighttime Novelist
    , Writer’s Digest, 2010
  • David Bell, PhD 2005
    Storm Warning, Berkley, 2024
    Try Not to Breathe
    , Berkley, 2023
    She's Gone
    , Sourcebooks Fire, 2022
    Kill All Your Darlings,
    Berkley, 2021
    Layover
    , Berkley, 2019
    Bring Her Home
    , Berkley, 2017
    Since She Went Away
    , Penguin/NAL, 2016
    Somebody I Used to Know
    , Penguin/NAL, 2015
    The Forgotten Girl,
    Penguin/NAL, 2014
    Never Come Back,
    Penguin/NAL, 2013
    Rides a Stranger,
    The Mysterious Bookshop, 2013
    The Hiding Place,
    Penguin/NAL, 2012
    Cemetery Girl,
    Penguin/NAL, 2011, Winner of Le Priz Polar International de Cognac
    The Girl in the Woods,
    Delirium Books, 2009
    The Condemned
    , Delirium Books, 2008
  • Josh Bell, PhD 2013
    Alamo Theory
    , Copper Canyon, 2016
    No Planets Strike,
    University of Nebraska, 2008
  • Dina Ben-Lev, PhD 2001
    Broken Helix,
    Mid-List, 1997, Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award
    Sober on a Small Plane,
    Wind Publications, 1995
    Note for a Missing Friend
    , Slapering Hol, 1991, Winner of the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
  • Eric Bliman, PhD 2013
    Travel & Leisure
    , Poetry Society of America, 2012, Winner of the National Chapbook Fellowship
  • Rebekah Bloyd, PhD 1993
    Buoyant
    , Pinyon, 2022
    At Sea
    , Finishing Line, 2019
    Handsome
    , Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2011
    Seabook,
    Meduza Press, 2000
    Sister Island
    , Blackberry Press, 1987
  • Murray Bodo, PhD 1991
    Song of the Sparrow
    , Franciscan, 2024
    Francis: The Journey and the Dream
    , Franciscan, 2022
    Surrounded by Love
    , Franciscan, 2018
    Autumn Train
    , Tau Publishing, 2015
    Something Like Jasmine,
    Tau Publishing, 2012
    Wounded Angels
    , Blissfool Books, 2009
    The Earth Moves at Midnight and Other Poems,
    St. Anthony Messenger, 2003
  • Daniel Bowman Jr., MA 2006
    On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity
    , Brazos, 2021
    A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country,
    VAC Poetry Chicago, 2012
  • Renee Branum, PhD 2023
    Defenestrate, Bloomsbury 2022
  • Marilyn Brock, PhD 2007
    Beaux Fest for the Wicked
    , Skinny Toe, 2009
  • Brian Brodeur, PhD 2015
    Some Problems with Autobiography
    , Criterion Books, 2023, Winner of The New Criterion Poetry Prize
    Every Hour is Late, Measure, 2019
    Local Fauna,
    Kent State, 2015, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
    Natural Causes,
    Autumn House, 2011, Winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
    Other Latitudes,
    University of Akron, 2007, Winner of Akron Poetry Prize
    So the Night Cannot Go On Without Us,
    White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 2006, Winner of the Poetry Chapbook Prize
  • Michelle Y. Burke, PhD 2014
    Animal Purpose,
    Ohio UP, 2016, Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
    Horse Loquela,
    Red Mountain Review, 2007, Winner of the Red Mountain Review Chapbook Series Award
  • Joshua Butts, PhD 2009
    New to the Lost Coast
    , Gold Wake, 2014
    To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar,
    Pudding House, 2006
  • Taylor Byas, PhD 2023
    Resting Bitch Face, Soft Skull 2025
    I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Soft Skull 2023
    Shutter, Madhouse Press 2022
    Bloodwarm, Variant Lit 2021
  • Susan Streeter Carpenter, PhD 2005
    Riders on the Storm,
    Bottom Dog, 2010
  • Marianne Chan, PhD 2023
    Leaving Biddle City, Sarabande 2024
    All Heathens, Sarabande 2020, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award, the Ohioana Book Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award
  • Will Clemens, PhD 2002
    All Shook Up: Collected Poems About Elvis,
    University of Arkansas, 2001
  • Emily Rose Cole, PhD 2022
    Thunderhead, U of Wisconsin Press, 2022
    Love and a Loaded Gun, Minerva Rising, 2017
  • Christopher Collins, PhD 2018
    My American Night,
    U of Georgia, Winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize
    Gathering Leaves for War,
    Finishing Line, 2013
  • Cynthia Crane, PhD 1987
    Divided Lives,
    St Martin’s/Macmillan, 2000
  • Allison Pitinii Davis, BA
    Outskirts, Baobab, 2025
    Line Study of a Motel Clerk, Baobab, 2017
    Poppy Seeds, Kent State, 2013, winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize
  • Erica Dawson, PhD 2010
    When Rap Spoke Straight to God,
    Tin House, 2018
    The Small Blades Hurt,
    Measure, 2014
    Big-Eyed Afraid,
    Waywiser, 2007, Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
  • Cara Dees, PhD 2022
    Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, Barrow Street, 2019, Winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize 
  • Sarah Domet, PhD 2009
    The Guineveres,
    Flatiron, 2016
    90 Days to Your Novel,
    Writer's Digest, 2010
  • Darrin Doyle, PhD 2006
    The Beast in Aisle 34
    , Tortoise, 2021
    The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions
    , Wolfson, 2021
    Scoundrels Among Us,
    Tortoise, 2018
    The Dark Will End the Dark,
    Tortoise, 2015
    The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo,
    St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010
    Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet,
    LSU, 2009
  • Ben Dudley, MA 2012
    The Day the Cat Got Shot, 2022
  • Samantha Edmonds, MA 2017
    Preponderance of Starry Beings
    , TriQuarterly Books, 2025
    The Space Poet, Split/Lip, 2020
    Pretty to Think So
    , Selcouth Station Press, 2019
  • Kelcey Parker Ervick, PhD 2006
    The Keeper
    , Avery Books/Penguin, 2022
    The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová, Rose Metal, 2016
    Liliane's Balcony,
    Rose Metal, 2013
    For Sale by Owner,
    Kore, 2011, Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction
  • Afsheen Farhadi, PhD 2022
    False Prophet, Melville House, 2026
  • Jennifer Fawkes, PhD 2018
    Daugthers of Chaos
    , Overlook Press/Abrams, 2024
    Tales the Devil Told Me, Press 53, 2020, Winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
    Mannequin and Wife, LSU, 2020
  • Laurie Filipelli, MA 1997
    My Heart Is a Museum, Broken Sleep Books, 2026, Winner of the Broken Sleep Books Poetry Competition
    Girl Paper Stone, Black Lawrence, 2018
    Elseplace,
    Brooklyn Arts, 2013
  • Rebecca Morgan Frank, PhD 2012
    Oh You Robot Saints!
    , Carnegie Mellon, 2021
    Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country
    , Carnegie Mellon, 2017
    The Spokes of Venus,
    Carnegie Mellon, 2016
    Little Murders Everywhere,
    Salmon Poetry, 2012
  • Stephen Frech, PhD 1999
    Zwart als Kaviaar/Black as Caviar,
    Midwest Writing Center, 2012
    A Palace of Strangers Is No City,
    Cervena Barva, 2011
    The Dark Villages of Childhood,
    Midwest Writing Center, 2009, Winner of the Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Prize
    If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness,
    White Pine, 2001, Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize
    Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent,
    Kent State, 1996, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Contest
  • Molly Gaudry, MA 2008
    Desire: A Haunting,
    Ampersand Books, 2017
    We Take Me Apart,
    Mud Luscious, 2010
    Parts,
    Mud Luscious, 2009
  • Luke Geddes, PhD 2016
    Junk, Simon & Schuster,
    2020
    I Am a Magical Teenage Princess
    , Chomu, 2012
  • Andrew Grace, PhD 2013
    Sancta
    , Ahsahta, 2012
    Shadeland,
    Ohio State, 2008, Winner of the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
    A Belonging Field
    , Salt, 2002
  • Juliana Gray, PhD 2001
    Honeymoon Palsy,
    Measure, 2016
    Roleplay,
    Dream Horse, 2012, Winner of the Orphic Poetry Book Prize
    The Man Under My Skin,
    River City, 2005
    History in Bones,
    Kent State, 2001, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Charlie Green, PhD 2010
    Feral Ornamentals, Finishing Line, 2021
  • J.M. Green, MA 2007
    The Novice Angler
    , Finishing Line, 2017
    Super Rich
    , Pudding House, 2008
  • Kimberly Grey, PhD 2021
    A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing, Persea, 2023
    Systems for the Future of Feeling, Persea, 2020
    The Opposite of Light, Persea, 2016, Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
  • Daniel Groves, PhD 2017
    The Lost Boys
    , U of Georgia/VQR Poetry Series, 2010
  • Ryan Guth, PhD 2002
    Body and Soul,
    Lummox, 2015
    Home Truths,
    Alsop Review, 2006
  • Beth Gylys, PhD 1997
    Sky Blue Enough to Drink,
    Grayson, 2016
    Matchbook,
    La Vita Poetica, 2007
    Spot in the Dark,
    Ohio State, 2004, Winner of the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
    Bodies that Hum,
    Silverfish Review, 1999, Winner of the Gerald Cable First Book Award
    Balloon Heart,
    Wind Publications, 1997, Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award
  • Heather Hamilton, PhD 2015
    Here is a Clearing
    , Poetry Society of America, 2019, Winner of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship
  • Katie Hartsock, BA 2004
    Bed of Impatiens
    , Able Muse Press, 2016
  • Kevin Honold, PhD 2017
    Our Lady of Good Voyage, Orison, 2023, Winner of the Orison Fiction Prize 
    Molly, Autumn House, 2021, Winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize
    The Rock Cycle
    , Univ. of New Mexico, 2021, Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize 
    Men as Trees Walking,
    Ohio State, 2010, Winner of the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
  • Emma Hudelson, PhD 2022
    Skywatch: The Untold Story of America's Greatest Show Horse, U Press of Kentucky, 2023
  • Rochelle Hurt, PhD 2017
    Lightboxes, Tupelo Press, 2027, Winner of the Dorset Prize
    The J Girls: A Reality Show, Indiana University, 2022, Winner of Blue Light Books Prize
    In Which I Play the Runaway
    , Barrow Street, 2016, Winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize
    The Rusted City,
    White Pine, 2014
  • Lesley Jenike, PhD 2008
    Punctum, Kent State University, 2017
    Holy Island, Gold Wake, 2014
    How We Come Ashore
    , Dancing Girl, 2013
    Ghost of Fashion
    , WordTech, 2009
    Folly Garden
    , Gold Wake, 2012
    I Dreamed Last Night I Got on a Boat to Heaven and By Some Chance I Had Brought My Dice Along
    , Permafrost, 2006, Winner of the Susan Blalock Award
  • Yalie Saweda Kamara, PhD 2022
    Besaydoo, Milkweed, 2024, Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize
    A Brief Biography of My Name, Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund, 2018
    When the Living Sing, Ledge Mule Press, 2017 
  • Holly Karapetkova, PhD 2005
    Towline
    , Cloudbank, 2016
    Words We Might One Day Say
    , Washington Writers', 2010, Winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Contest
  • Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, PhD 2008
    The Rub
    , Elixir, 2014, Winner of the Editor's Prize
    Aloha Vaudeville Doll,
    Dancing Girl, 2013
    By a Year Lousy with Meteors
    , Dream Horse, 2012, Winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize (Co-written with Cynthia Arrieu-King)
    Intaglio,
    Kent State, 2006, Winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
  • Les Kay, PhD 2014
    At Whatever Front
    , Sundress, 2016
    Badass
    , Lucky Bastard, 2015
    The Bureau
    , Sundress, 2015
  • Gwen Kirby, PhD 2018
    Shit Cassandra Saw
    , Penguin, 2022
  • Julia Koets, PhD 2016
    Pine
    , Southern Indiana Review, 2021, Winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize
    The Rib Joint,
    Red Hen, 2019, Winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award
    Hold Like Owls
    , Univ. of South Carolina, 2011, Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
  • Chris Koslowski, MA 2012
    Kayfabe, McSweeney's Books, 2023
  • Gary Leising, PhD 2003
    The Alp at the End of My Street,
    Brick Road Poetry, 2014, Winner of the Brick Road Poetry Prize
    Temple of Bones,
    Finishing Line, 2013
    Fastened to a Dying Animal,
    Pudding House, 2010
  • Amy Lemmon, PhD 1997
    The Miracles
    , C&R, 2019
    Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation
    , Slapering Hol Press, 2012 (Co-written with Denise Duhamel)
    ABBA: The Poems
    , Coconut Books, 2010 (Co-written with Denise Duhamel)
    Saint Nobody,
    Red Hen, 2009
    Fine Motor
    , Sow’s Ear Poetry, 2008
  • April Lindner, PhD 1998
    Love, Lucy,
    Poppy/Little Brown, 2015
    Catherine,
    Poppy/Little Brown, 2013
    This Bed Our Bodies Shaped,
    Able Muse, 2012
    Jane
    , Poppy/Little Brown, 2010 Skin, Texas Tech, 2002, Winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Poetry Prize
  • Lisa Low, PhD 2022
    Replica, U of Wisconsin, 2026
    Crown for the Girl Inside, Yes Yes Books, 2023, Winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest 
  • Cate Marvin, PhD 2003
    Event Horizon, Copper Canyon, 2022
    Oracle, W. W. Norton, 2015
    Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Sarabande, 2006
    World’s Tallest Disaster, Sarabande, 2001, Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize
  • Kristi Maxwell, PhD 2010
    Wide Ass of Night, Saturnalia, 2025
    Goners, Green Linden Press, 2023, winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize 
    My My
    , Saturnalia, 2020
    Bright and Hurtless
    , Ahsahta, 2018
    PLAN/K
    , Horseless, 2015
    That Our Eyes Be Rigged
    , Saturnalia, 2014
    Re-
    , Ahsahta, 2011
    Hush Sessions,
    Saturnalia, 2009
    Realm Sixty-four
    , Ahsahta, 2008
  • Matt McBride, PhD 2013
    The Mourners Forget Which Funeral They're At
    , Greying Ghost, 2021
    Polis
    , Black Lawrence, 2018
    Cities Lit by the Light Caught in Photographs,
    H_NGM_N Books, 2012
    The Space Between Stars
    , Kent State, 2008, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Molly McCaffrey, PhD 2005
    You Belong to Us,
    Main Street Rag, 2015
    How to Survive Graduate School and Other Disasters,
    Main Street Rag, 2011
  • Rebecca Meacham, PhD 2002
    Morbid Curiosities,
    New Delta Review, 2014, Winner of the New Delta Review chapbook contest
    Let’s Do,
    Univ. of North Texas, 2004, Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize
  • Tessa Mellas, PhD 2013
    Lungs Full of Noise,
    Univ. of Iowa, 2013, Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award
  • Lily Meyer, PhD 2023
    The End of Romance, Viking, 2026
    Short War, Deep Vellum/Strange Object, 2024
  • Nicholas Molbert, PhD 2023
    Altars of Spine and Fractions, Northwestern UP, 2024
    Cocodrie Elegy, Foundlings Press, 2023
    Goodness Gracious, Foundlings Press, 2019
  • Christian Moody, PhD 2014
    Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds, Dzanc Books, 2025, Winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize 
  • Jim Murphy, PhD 2000
    Versions of May
    , Negative Capability, 2023
    The Uniform House, Negative Capability, 2014
    Heaven Overland,
    Kennesaw State University, 2009
    The Memphis Sun
    , Kent State, 2000, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Kristin Naca, MA 2000
    Bird Eating Bird,
    Harper Perennial, 2009, Winner of the National Poetry Series
  • David Nielsen, PhD 2014
    Meant to Be
    , Press 53, 2025, Winner of the Press 53 Poetry Award
    Unfinished Figures, Lynx House, 2016, Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
  • Sarah Rose Nordgren, PhD 2020
    The Bird Hat Wearer's Journal
    , winner of the Essay Press Book Prize, 2024
    The Creation Museum, Harbor Editions, 2022
    Darwin's Mother, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
    Best Bones
    , University of Pittsburgh, 2014, Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
  • Kevin Oberlin, PhD 2007
    Steamboat Alley
    , Heartland Review Press, 2021, Winner of The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Contest
    Spotlit Girl, Kent State, 2009, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Matthew Pennock, PhD 2018
    The Miracle Machine,
    Gival, 2020, Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award
    Sudden Dog, Alice James, 2012
  • Sarah Perrier, PhD 2006
    Nothing Fatal,
    University of Akron, 2010
    Just One of Those Things
    , Kent State, 2003, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
  • Rhonda Pettit, PhD
    Riding the Wave Train
    , Dos Madres Press, 2017
  • Brenda Peynado, PhD 2017
    The Rock Eaters
    , Penguin, 2021
  • David James Poissant, PhD 2011
    Lake Life
    , Simon & Schuster, 2020
    The Heaven of Animals,
    Simon & Schuster, 2014, Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award
    Lizard Man,
    RopeWalk, 2012, Winner of the RopeWalk Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Prize
  • Phoebe Reeves, MA 2004
    Helen of Bikini
    , Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023
    The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, Pecan Grove, 2010
  • Molly Reid, PhD 2019
    The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary
    , BOA, 2019, Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize
  • Michael Rerick, PhD 2010
    The Switch Yards
    , Finishing Line, 2017
    morefrom
    , Alice Blue Books, 2012
    In Ways Impossible to Fold,
    Marsh Hawk, 2009, Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
    X-Ray
    , Flying Guillotine, 2008
  • Stephanie Rogers, MA 2005
    Middletown, Saturnalia, 2025
    Fat Girl Forms, Saturnalia, 2021
    Plucking the Stinger, Saturnalia, 2016
  • Linwood Rumney, PhD 2016
    Abandoned Earth
    , Gival, 2016, Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award
  • Chuck Rybak, PhD 2003
    </war>,
    Main Street Rag, 2013
    Tongue and Groove,
    Main Street Rag, 2007
    Liketown,
    Pudding House, 2007
    Nickel and Diming My Way Through
    , Wind Publications, 2005, Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award
  • C. Lynn Shaffer, PhD 2001
    Life Spiral,
    Finishing Line, 2013
    Persistence of Vision,
    Wind Publications, 2008, Winner of the Morehead State University New Writers Award
  • Emily Skaja, PhD 2019
    BRUTE,
    Graywolf, 2019, Winner of the Walt Whitman Award
  • Woody Skinner, PhD 2017
    A Thousand Distant Radios,
    Atelier26 Books, 2017
  • Virginia Slachman, PhD 1996
    World of Mortal Light
    , Chatter House, 2013
    The Lost Ode
    , Charles Towne, 2013
    Many Brave Hearts
    , Chatter House, 2012
    Inside Such Darkness
    , Tiger Bark, 2010
    Heidegger’s Temple
    , CustomWords, 2003
  • Adam Sol, PhD 2003
    Broken Dawn Blessings
    , ECW, 2021
    How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
    , ECW, 2019
    Complicity
    , McClelland & Stewart, 2014
    Jeremiah
    , Ohio, House of Anansi, 2008
    Crowd of Sounds
    , House of Anansi, 2003, Winner of the Trillium Award for Poetry
    Jonah's Promise
    , Mid-List, 2000, Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award
  • Dior J. Stephens, PhD 2025
    ATOMIC I (Nightboat, 2027)
    CRUEL/CRUEL (Nightboat, 2023)
  • Liv Stratman, MA 2011
    Cheat Day, Scribner, 2021
  • Sarah Anne Strickley, PhD 2016
    Incendiary Devices
    , Tolsun Books, 2023
    Sister, Summer Camp Publishing, 2021
    Fall Together,
    Gold Wake, 2018
  • Shawn Sturgeon, PhD 1998
    Either/Ur,
    River City, 2002
  • Lisa Summe, MA 2014
    Say It Hurts,
    YesYes Books, 2021
  • Nathan Swartzendruber, MA 2011
    Opaque Projectionist
    , Dos Madres, 2009
  • Maggie Su, PhD 2021
    Terrestrial, HarperCollins, forthcoming 
  • Liz Tilton, PhD 2008
    Salt,
    Kent State, 2009, Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
    Cincinnati’s Historic Findlay Market
    , Arcadia Publishing, 2009
  • Sarah Trudgeon, MA 2010
    Dreams of Unhappiness
    , Poetry Society of America, 2015, Winner of the PSA 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship
  • Anne Valente, PhD 2015
    The Desert Sky Before Us
    , William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2019
    Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down
    , William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016
    By the Light We Knew Our Names,
    Dzanc, 2014
  • Corey Van Landingham, PhD 2019
    Reader, I, Sarabande, 2024
    Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens, Tupelo, 2022
    Antidote,
    Ohio State, 2013, Winner of the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
  • Kevin Walzer, PhD 1996
    Austere Offices,
    Word Press, 2005
    Greater Circles,
    Word Press, 2001
    The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry’s Place in American Culture,
    Edwin Mellen, 2001
    The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism,
    Story Line, 1998
    The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines
    , Story Line, 1996
    Living in Cincinnati,
    Cincinnati Writers’ Project, 1995
  • Madeleine Wattenberg, PhD 2022
    I/O, U of Arkansas Press, 2021, Winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize 
  • Chelsea Whitton, PhD 2023
    The Wonder Wheel, LSU, 2026
    Bear Trap, Dancing Girl Press 2018
  • The Cyborg Jillian Weise, PhD 2009
    Common Cyborg
    , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming
    Cyborg Detective,
    BOA, 2019
    The Book of Goodbyes
    , BOA, 2013, Winner of the James Laughlin Award and of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize
    The Colony,
    Soft Skull, 2010
    The Amputee's Guide to Sex
    , Soft Skull, 2007
    Translating the Body,
    All Nations, 2006
  • Caki Wilkinson, PhD 2011
    The Survival Expo,
    Persea, 2021
    The Stone Museum, Persea, 2014, Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award
    Circles Where the Head Should Be
    , Univ. of North Texas, 2011, Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize
  • Lisa Williams, MA 1992
    Gazelle in the House,
    New Issues, 2014
    Woman Reading to the Sea,
    W.W. Norton, 2008, Winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize
    The Hammered Dulcimer,
    Utah State Univ., 1998, Winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award
  • Ruth Williams, PhD 2013
    Flatlands,
    Black Lawrence, 2018
    Conveyance,
    Dancing Girl, 2012
  • Bess Winter, PhD 2017
    Machines of Another Era
    , Gold Wake, 2021
  • Matthew Yeager, PhD 2023
    Rocket Surgery, New York Quarterly Books 2024
    Like That, Forklift Books 2016
  • Katherine Zlabek, PhD 2014
    When,
    OSU Press/Mad Creek Books, 2019, Winner of The Journal’s Non/Fiction Prize
    Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands,
    Ricochet Editions, 2015