Student & Alumnae/i Publications and Awards

Since Goucher's limited-residency MFA in Creative Nonfiction began in 1997, its students and alumnae/i have published thirty-two books with nine more under contract. Their articles and essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Clackamas, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Salon, and The Washington Post. Their awards include 2008 New York Book Festival Award for best historical memoir, USA News Best Book of 2007 in World History, the  Southern Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, two Associated Writing Programs' Intro Awards in creative nonfiction,  a Society of Professional Journalists Award for feature writing, second place in Atlantic Monthly's  College Student Writers Competition, and first place, as well as two finalists, in Fourth Genre's First Annual Editors' Prize for Best Essay/Memoir. 

Their most recent books include:

Margaret Ahnert:  The Knock at the Door:  A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide, Beaufort Books, 2007.

Sheri Booker:  Nine Years Under,  Gotham Penguin, under contract.

Sherry Bosley:  Toepicks, Cadaver Dogs, and Sports with No Balls,  Wheat Field Press, 2009.

Valerie Boyd: Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood, Knopf, under contract. 

Dale Brown: Brilliance and Balderdash: Early Lectures at Cincinnati's Mercantile Library,  Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, 2007.

David Copeland: Blood & Volume, Barricade Books, 2007.

Lisa Davis: The Redemption of Brother Curtis, Scribner, under contract.

Larry Franklin:  Cherry Blossoms & Barren Plains: A Woman's Journey from Mental Illness to a Prison Cell,  Chipmunka Publishing Co., 2009.

Geoff Gilpin: The Maharishi Effect: In Search of Enlightenment, Levitation, and Immortality in America's Heartland, Tarcher/Penguin, 2006.

Anna Maria Gualtiere:  Among the Spoils, Atlas & Co., under contract.

Pamela Haag: Marriage and Its Discontents,  HarperCollins, under contract.

Devra Hall: Seeking Harmony: The Life and Music of Luther Henderson, Scarecrow Press, under contract.

Stephen Kimber: Loyalists, Layabouts and Dancing Beggars: The Rise and Fall of the New New York, Doubleday Canada, 2008.

Kathe Lison: Curds  & Whey:  One Woman, Four Seasons of Cheese in France,  Crown/Random House, under contract.   

Leslie Miller: Let Me Eat Cake:  A Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Soda, and a Pinch of Salt, Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Susan Kushner Resnick: Goodbye Wifes and Daughters: The Explosion of an American Town,  University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Terry Greene Sterling:  Illegal,  Globe Pequot Press, under contract. 

Theresa Vigour: Mourning Sarah,  Radcliffe Publishers (England), 2008.

Patricia Willard: America Eats!: On the Road with  the WPA,  Bloomsbury, 2008.