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 more than 70 books. Their articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Best American Science and Nature Writing, The New York Times Magazine, Village Voice, Salon, The Daily Beast, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Antioch Review, River Teeth, and the Washington Post.

Their awards include an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the New York Book Festival Award for best historical memoir, USA News Best Book in World History, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, the Atlantic Book Awards' Dartmouth Nonfiction Award (Canada), the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Nonfiction (Canada), the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, two Associated Writing Program Intro Awards in creative nonfiction, and first place, in Fourth Genre's Annual Editors' Prize. Their books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

Here is a sample of their most recent books:

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

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

Dale Brown: Literary Cincinnati: The Missing Chapter, Ohio University Press, 2012.

Michael Capuzzo: The Perfect Murder: Science, God, and Dark Genius in the Hidden Crime of the Century, Simon & Schuster, under contract.

The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases, Gotham, 2010.

Candy J. Cooper: Behind Enemy Lines, Scholastic Young Adult Series, under contract.

Lisa Davis: The Redemption of Brother Curtis, Scribner, 2011.

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

Pamela Haag: Marriage Confidential, HarperCollins, 2011.

Carrie Hagen: we is got him, Overlook Press, 2011.

Tamara Jeffries: The African-American Guide to Living Well with Diabetes, co-authored with Constance Brown-Riggs, New Page Books, 2010.

Jeanne Lemkau: Lost and Found in Cuba, Orton Road Press, 2010.

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

Brendan O'Meara: Six Weeks in Saratoga: How a Three-Year-Old Filly Won the Woodward Stakes and Became Horse of the Year, State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2011.

Jill Sisson Quinn: Deranged: Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan, Apprentice House, 2010.

Susan Kushner Resnick: Goodbye Wifes and Daughters: The Explosion of an American Town, University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 

Terry Greene Sterling: Illegal, Globe Pequot Press, 2010.

Earl Swift:The Big Roads: The Untold Story of Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Jacob Wheeler: Book on Guatemalan adoption, University of Nebraska Press, 2011.