Featured Alumni | Creative Writing

Emily Hiestand (Poetry, 1988), winner of the National Poetry Series award for Green the Witch-Hazel Wood (Graywolf Press, 1989), a Pushcart Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, and the Discovery/The Nation Award.

Devin Hahn (Fiction, 2012)

Natasha Hakimi (Poetry, 2012)

Lisa Hall (Plays, 2004)

Maria Halovanic (Poetry, 2007)

Emma Hawes (Poetry, 2006)

Tunzel Hayes (Fiction, 2001)

Margaret Hermes (Poetry, 1996)

Meghan Hickey (Poetry, 2001)

Lisa Hiton (Poetry, 2011)

Nathan Hogan (Fiction, 2009)

Donovan Hohn (Fiction, 1997)

Katherine Hollander (Poetry, 2006)

Lili Holodnak (Fiction, 2003)

Soo Yeon Hong (Fiction, 2012)

Elisabeth Houston (Poetry, 2011)

Sung-San Hong (Poetry, 1996)

Elizabeth Howard (Poetry, 2010)

Jeff Howe (Fiction, 2011)

Daniel Hunter (Plays, 1999)

Jennifer Hurley (Fiction, 1996)

Daniel Hurley (Fiction, 1995)

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JoAnna Ialuna (2001)

Ellen Ilfeld (1977)

Walter Isle (1988)

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Ha Jin (Fiction, 1993), winner of National Book Award, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and two-time PEN/Hemingway winner forWaiting and War Trash.

Lara Jacobs (Fiction, 2011)

Saskya Jain (Fiction, 2010)

Michele Jankowski-Smith (1995)

Claire Jarvis (Poetry, 2000)

Philip Jenks (Poetry, 1993)

Sybil Johnston-Innoye (1985)

Barbara Jordan (Poetry, 1989)

Tom Jungerberg (Poetry, 2007)

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Daphne Kalotay (Fiction, 1994), author of Calamity & Other Stories (Doubleday, 2005), Russian Winter (Harper, 2010), and Sight Reading (Harper, 2013).

Jeffrey Kahrs (Fiction & Plays, 1992)

George Kalogeris (Poetry, 1987)

Julie Kane (Poetry, 1975)

Marisa Kantor Stark (Fiction, 1998)

Arielle Kaplan (Poetry, 2021)

Kirun Kapur (Poetry, 2000)

Katherine Karlin (Fiction, 2001)

Aron Keesbury (Poetry, 1996)

Ted Kehoe (Fiction, 2006)

Joshua Kellar (2001)

Alice Lesch Kelly (Fiction, 1992)

Janet Kenney (Plays, 1998)

Langston Kerman (Poetry, 2011)

David Khoury (Fiction, 2004)

Marshall Klimasewiski (Fiction, 1993)

Tracey Knapp (Poetry, 2005)

Elizabeth Knies (Poetry, 1999)

Anastasia Kolendo (Fiction, 2007)

Madeline Kotowicz (Fiction, 2008)

Daniel Kraines (Poetry, 2011)

Lauren Kruskall (Fiction, 2006)

Mari Kubo (Poetry, 1976)

John Kuntz (Plays, 2005)

Aviya Kushner (Poetry, 1998)

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Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 1993) Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, and Unaccustomed Earth.

Hal LaCroix (Fiction, 1983)

Michael Ladd (Poetry, 1998)

Susanna Lamey (Poetry, 2003)

Elizabeth Langemak (Poetry, 2002)

William Lantry (Poetry, 1990)

Sara Laschever (Fiction, 1989)

Ginger Lazarus (Plays, 1992)

Adelle Leiblein (Poetry, 1985)

Ruth Lepson (Poetry, 1972)

Michael Levine (Poetry, 2002)

Swann Li (Fiction, 2009)

Alice Lichtenstein (Plays, 1983)

Matthew Liebowitz (Fiction, 2004)

Claudia Limbert (Fiction, 1980)

Jim Thurston Lindsey (Poetry, 1976)

Miriam Lipson (Fiction, 2012)

Deirdre Lockwood (Poetry, 2000)

Gian Lombardo (Poetry, 1981)

David London (Fiction, 1992)

Melinda Lopez (Plays, 2000)

Lilia Lopez-Chua (Poetry, 1987)

Jessica Lott (Fiction, 2004)

Jennifer Lowe (Poetry, 1999)

Truong-Khoi Luu (Fiction, 1996)

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Sue Miller (Fiction, 1980), author of numerous best-selling novels, including While I Was Gone.

Susan Mach (Plays, 1995)

Virginia Magarine (Fiction, 2003)

Anand Mahadevan (Fiction, 2010)

Evan Magers (Fiction, 2005)

Jill Maio (Fiction, 2009)

Peter Marcus (Poetry, 1995)

Kathryn Maris (Poetry, 1996)

Jennifer Markell (Fiction and Plays, 1988)

Jessica Martin (Plays, 1997)

Chloe Martinez (Poetry, 2006)

Lucy Marx (Fiction, 1992)

Stacy Mattingly (Fiction, 2011)

Glyn Maxwell (Poetry, 1996)

Matt Mayerchak (Plays, 2002)

Austyn Ellese Mayfield (Poetry, 2006)

Tom McClellan (Fiction, 1989)

John McCoy (Fiction, 1995)

Jill McDonough (Poetry, 1998)

Eric McHenry (Poetry, 1997)

Shea McInerney (Poetry, 2002)

Diane Mehta (Poetry, 1994)

Askold Melnyczuk (Fiction, 1978)

Glen Merzer (Plays, 1984)

Molly Smith Metzler (Plays, 2002)

Patricia Meyer (Fiction, 1983)

David Mildon (Plays, 2002)

Jonathan Mirin (Plays, 2003)

Charlie Mitchell (Plays, 1993)

Susan Monsky (Fiction, 1981)

Nick Montfort (Poetry, 2001)

Jennifer Moses (Fiction, 1983)

Andrew Mozina (Fiction, 1990)

Richard Murphy (Poetry, 1983)

Jonathon Myers (Playwriting, 2007)

Samantha Myers (Poetry, 2002)

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Micah Nathan (Fiction, 2010) best-selling author of Gods of Aberdeen and winner of the Saul Bellow Prize for Fiction.

Hal LaCroix (Fiction, 1983)

H. M. Naqvi (Fiction, 2006)

Vivek Naryanan (Fiction, 2003)

Micah Nathan (Fiction, 2010)

Emily Newburger (Fiction, 1995)

Mukoma Ngugi (Poetry, 2001)

Binh Nguyen (Poetry, 2011)

Thu Nguyen (Poetry, 2004)

Mohamad Nizam-Mafi (1987)

Ronan Noone (Plays, 2001)

Ann Nowak (1975)

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Kristian O’Hare (Plays, 2003), author of The Gay Americans.

Calvin Olsen (Poetry, 2011)

William Oppenheimer (Fiction, 1990)

Alex Ortolani (Fiction, 2004)

Jason Overdorf (Fiction, 1997)

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Carl Phillips (Poetry, 1993), author of eight books of poetry and recipient of the 2006 Academy of American Poets Fellowship.

Christine Palamidessi Moore (Fiction, 1991)

Carla Panciera (Poetry, 1987)

Patricia Park (Fiction, 2010)

Aidan Parkinson (Plays, 1999)

Guillermo Parra (Poetry, 1999)

Nathaniel Perry (Poetry, 2004)

Sasenarine Persaud (Fiction, 2006)

Sara Peters (Poetry, 2008)

Jeffrey Pethybridge (Poetry, 2000)

Jan Phillips (Fiction, 1992)

Michael Pickard (Poetry, 2005)

Jacqueline Pope (Poetry, 1996)

Natasha Pratap (Fiction, 1998)

Vanesha Pravin (Poetry, 2009)

Jason Prentice (Fiction, 2003)

Laina Pruett (Fiction, 2011)

Sharon Pywell (Fiction, 1989)

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Sadaf Qureshi (Poetry, 2003)

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Rishi Reddi (Fiction, 2001) author of Karma and Other Stories, winner of the 2008 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award.

Shelby Raebeck (Fiction, 1987)

Alison Rakoske Hall (Fiction, 1992)

Sheela Ramaprian (Fiction, 1997)

Wendy Ranan (Poetry, 1992)

Lynne Raughley (Fiction, 1994)

Maia Rauschenberg (Poetry, 2009)

Elizabeth Rees (Poetry, 1987)

Matthias Regan (Poetry, 1995)

Melanie Rehak (Poetry, 1994)

Victoria Rentz (Fiction, 2000)

Sharanya Retnakumar (Fiction, 2012)

Kevin Rice (Plays, 1999)

Pamela Rikkers (Fiction, 1993)

Christopher Rizzo (Poetry, 2001)

Christopher Robinson (Poetry, 2007)

M. Lynda Robinson (Plays, 2001)

Gretchen Robinson (Poetry, 1991)

Matthew Roland (Plays, 2000)

Julie Rold (Fiction, 1996)

Peter Romanow (Poetry, 1981)

Jennifer Rose (Poetry, 1985)

Lisa Rosenberg (Poetry, 1990)

Madelyn Rosenberg (Fiction, 2002)

John Rosengren (Fiction, 1994)

David Rosner (Fiction, 1974)

Jason Roush (Poetry, 1998)

Russel Rowland (Fiction, 1992)

Richard Rubin (Fiction, 1991)

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Annaka Saari (Poetry, 2021)

Rachel Safko (Poetry, 1999)

Miriam Sagan (Poetry, 1977)

Muhammad Salimi (Poetry, 2021)

Luke Salisbury (Fiction, 1984)

Catherine Salmons (Poetry, 1990)

Darby Sanders (Fiction, 1995)

Judith Sanders (Fiction, 1982)

Steve Sanders (Fiction, 2008)

Alan Scherstuhl (Fiction, 2000)

Stephen Scheuerman (Poetry, 1988)

Jennifer Schlossberg (Fiction, 2008)

Joshua Schneyer (Fiction & Poetry, 1992)

Hattie Schroeder (Fiction, 1995)

Laurens Schwartz (Fiction, 1975)

Edward Schwarzschild (Fiction, 1999)

Anindita Sempere (Poetry, 2005)

John Shanley (Plays, 1994)

Don Share (Poetry, 1988)

John Shea (Poetry, 2021)

J. Kevin Shushtari (Fiction, 2010)

William Siegel (Fiction, 1996)

Andrew Singer (Poetry, 2000)

Natasha Singer (Poetry, 1989)

James Sitar (Poetry, 2005)

E. V. Slate (Fiction, 2002)

Maya Sloan (Fiction, 2007)

Gregory Blake Smith (Fiction, 1981)

Lorne Smith (Plays, 1998)

Katherine Snodgrass (Fiction & Plays, 1990)

Steve Sohmer (Fiction, Plays, & English Literature, 1992)

Onna Solomon (Poetry, 2006)

Donna Sorbello (Plays, 2003)

Laurie Soslow (Poetry, 1998)

John Spaulding (Poetry, 2005)

Frederick Speers (Poetry, 2000)

Kathleen Spivack (Poetry, 1965)

S.A. Spieller (Fiction, 2008)

Sue Standing (1977)

Brian Stavely (Poetry, 2002)

David Steiling (1974)

Michelle Sterling (Fiction, 2010)

Arlene Stone (Poetry, 1973)

Dan Stone (Fiction, 2009)

Rebekah Stout (Poetry, 2010)

Jacob Strautmann (Poetry, 2000)

Jennifer Stroup (Fiction, 2004)

Roman Sturgis (Fiction, 2008)

Dariel Suarez (Fiction, 2012)

Shubha Sunder (Fiction, 2012)

Shilpi Suneja (Fiction, 2009)

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Jessica Treadway (Fiction, 2002), author of Please Come Back To Me, winner of the 2009 Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction. (Photo by Michele McDonald)

Lance Tait (Plays, 1994)

Meghan Tally (Poetry, 2004)

Peter Tamaribuchi (Plays, 1999)

Randa Tantawi (Fiction, 2007)

Tess Taylor (Poetry, 2006)

Lauren Hallett Tharaud (Fiction, 2006)

Gwen Thompson (Fiction, 1999)

Melanie Rae Thon (Fiction, 1983)

Ezra Tishman (Poetry, 1981)

Beverly Tokarz (Poetry, 1992)

Carla Tomaso (Fiction, 1974)

John Tormey (Fiction, 2010)