Books
Published by LSU MFA Graduates
(Covering
graduates between the years of 1987 and 1997, a group of 98 people. Partially
updated 9/27/01 to include authors published before graduation. Please
send updates to the webmaster.)
Novels
Clark, Matt
- Hook Man Speaks, New York: Avon Books (2000).
Griffith, Michael
- Spikes, New York: Arcade Publishing, division of Time Warner (forthcoming as part of a
three book contract in 2000).
Kellman, Anthony
- The Coral-Rooms, Peepaltree Press (1994).
Porter, Connie
- Imani All Mine, New York: Houghton Mifflin
- All Bright Court, New York: Houghton Mifflin (1989, 1999)
- Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Selected as an American Library Association
Notable Book of the Year.
Russell, Josh
- Yellow Jack, New York: W.W. Norton and Co. (1999).
Racine, Dave
- Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, New York: Van Neste Books, distributed by Permanent Press
(1999).
Rose, Rex
- Toast, Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company (2002).
Spitzer, Mark
- Bottom Feeder, Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company
- Chum, Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company
Suarez, Virgil
- Going Under, Arte Publico.Press/University of Houston, Houston, TX (1996)
- Havana Thursdays, Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press
- The Cutter, Random House/Available Press (1991).
- Latin Jazz, William Morrow. (First Cuban-American writer to be published by a major New
York publishing house.) Reprint: Houston, Arte Publico Press (1997).
Wilson, Wayne
- What Love Means (forthcoming from Algonquin Books, 2000).
- Loose Jam, New York: Delacourte (1990).
Vernon, Olympia
- Eden, New York: Grove Press (2002)
- A Killing in This Town, New York: Grove Press (2006)
Domingue, Ronlyn
- The Mercy of Thin Air , New York: Atria/Simon & Schuster (2005)
Poetry
Kellman, Anthony
- Watercourse, London: Peepaltree Press (1990).
- The Long Gap, London: Peepaltree Press (1996).
Starkey, David
- Open Night at the Cabaret Voltaire, St. Augustine, Florida: Kings Estate Press (1996)
- Starkey's Book of States, Chapel Hill (1995).
- Koan Americana, Colonial Press (1992).
- In the Republic of Longing, Tempe: Arizona, Bilingual Review Press (1999)
- Nominated by the publisher for the James Laughlin Award given by the Academy of American Poets.
Suarez, Virgil
- You Come Singing, Chicago: Tia Chucha Press/Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
(1998).
Novella/Short Story
Collections
Wing, Elizabeth
- Look Out For Hydrophobia, New York: Birch Press, a division of Carroll Publishing (1990).
Servin, Jacques
- Aviary Slag, New York: Fiction Collective (1996).
- Mermaids for Attila, New York: Fiction Collective two.
Moore, Dinty
- Toothpick Men, Mammoth Press, Pennsylvania.
NonFiction
Moore, Dinty
- The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about the Internet Culture, New York and
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (division of Workmen Publishing in New York) (1995).
- The Accidental Buddhist, New York and Chapel Hill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1997).
Children's Books
Porter, Connie
- Addy's Surprise
- Addy Learns a Lesson
- Happy Birthday Addy
- Addy Saves the Day
- Changes for Addy
- Meet Addy
- All titles published by Chicago: The Pleasant Company, American Girls Series (1990-present).
- These works have been revolutionary in the area of children's books for African Americans, have
sold in the millions, and have been the subject of front cover coverage by Publisher's Weekly.
Translations
- Quartet of Joy,
by Muhammed Afifi Matar, translated by John Verlenden, University of Arkansas Press (1997)
- Poetics of Relation, by Edouard Glissant, translated by Elizabeth Wing University of
Michigan Press (1997)
- Outwitting the Gestapo, with Lucie Aubrac, translated by Elizabeth Wing and Konrad Bieber,
University of Nebraska Press (1993)
- Michel Foucault, by Didier Eribon, translated by Elizabeth Wing, Harvard University Press
(1991).
- The Book of Promethea, by Helene Cixous, translated by Elizabeth Wing, University of
Nebraska Press (1991)
- Against Architecture, by Denis Hollier, translated by Elizabeth Wing, MIT Press (1989).
- Opera or the Undoing of Women, by Catherine Clement, translated by Elizabeth Wing,
University of Minnesota Press (1988).
- The College of Sociology, by Denis Hollier, translated by Elizabeth Wing, University of
Minnesota Press (1988).
- The Private Picasso, by Edward Quinn and Pierre Daix, translated by Elizabeth Wing, Little
Brown and Co. (1987).
- The Newly Born Woman, by Catherine Clement and Helene Cixous, University of Minnesota Press
(1986).
Books Edited
- Crossing Water,
anthology of English-speaking Caribbean poets, edited by Anthony Kellman, Greenfield Press, NY (1992).
- Little Havana Blues: A Contemporary Cuban-American Literature Anthology, co-edited by
Virgil Suarez and Delia Poey, Arte Publico Press/University of Houston, Houston, TX (1996).
- Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets, co-edited by Virgil Suarez, Victor Hernandez Cruz and Leroy
V.
- Quintana, Persea Books/George Braziller, NY (March 1995).
- Celebrate America, co-edited by Virgil Suarez, Hyperion Books (1994)
- Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction, co-edited by Virgil Suarez 2, Delia Poey, Harper
Collins, NY (1992).
- Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Literature, edited by David Starkey,
Loyola Press (1998).
- Teaching Writing Creatively, edited by David Starkey, Boynton/Cook (1997).
Plays and
Screenplays
- Kim Belcher, off-off
Broadway in New York
- Clydia Davenport, productions in New Orleans
- Diane Hoffpauer, play produced in New York
- Samuel Denno co-wrote Pyramider (?) with Rick Blackwood, sold to Paramount
MFA Graduates Group
Publication List
Essays | Articles | Book
Reviews
A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Aethlon, American Book Review, American Bookseller, The Americas
Review, Apalachee Quarterly, Asylum, AWP Chronicle, Barnes & Noble Online, Bluegrass Unlimited,
boundary 2, Brightleaf, Carolina English Teacher, Changes, Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cleveland
Plain Dealer, College Literature, The Cursor, Exercise Exchange, Facts on File, Farmer's Market, Gulf
Stream Magazine, House Organ, Human Rights Now, Indiana English, The Journal of Ride Theory, Journal
of Technical Writing and Communication, Kansas English, Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, Kentucky
English Bulletin, Kestrel, Key Reporter, Language and Literature, Language and Style, Leonardo, Light,
Literature/Film Quarterly, Literary Magazine Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Mediamatic,
Mesechabe, The Miami Herald, Mid-American Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Minnesota English Journal,
Modern Language Review, Multicultural Review, Narrations, New Delta Review, New Mexico Humanities, The
New Republic, New York Times Magazine, North Carolina Literary Review, Pennsylvania English, The
Philadelphia Enquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poets and Writers, Representations, Rolling Stone,
Science Fiction Studies, Southern Folklore, Southern Humanities Review, The Southern Literary Journal,
The Southern Plains Review, The Southern Quarterly, The Southern Review, Statement, Studies in Short
Fiction, Talahassee Democrat, Tampa Review, Teaching Excellence, Time Out, Tulsa Women's Studies, Two
Lines, Tyuonyi, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vista: The Hispanic Magazine, Western Ohio Journal, Wind,
Women's Review of Books, Writing on the Edge, Bendiceme, America: Latino Writers of the United States,
The Book of Promethea, Colors of A Different Horse: Rethinking How We Teach Creative Writing,
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Critical Essays in Exploring Novels, The Dictionary of Literary
Biography Encyclopedia of American Literature, Poetics of Relation
MFA Graduates
Currently Teaching
- Manuela Barbuiani,
Instructor
- Kim Belcher, Community College in New York
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomana College
- Adam Hill, California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo
- Lewen Kellman, Associate Professor, Augusta State, Georgia
- Cynthia Levy, Southern University, Baton Rouge
- Dinty Moore, Associate Professor, Penn State, the Altoona College
- Rob Peneguy, Instructor, LSU
- Michael Griffith, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
- Mona Lisa Saloy, Assistant Professor, Dillard University, NOLA
- Martha Serpas, Teaching Fellow, University of Houston
- David Starkey, North Central College
- Gray Stewart, Morehouse College, Atlanta
- Virgil Suarez, Professor of English at Florida State University, Visiting Professor, University
of Texas at Austin, Spring 1998
- Ruth Vance, Instructor, LSU
- John Verlenden, University of New Orleans
- Donna Glee Williams, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- Angus Woodward, Delgado Community College, NOLA
- Olympia Vernon, Haille Ford Chair, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
MFA Graduates in
Related Jobs
Shea Bohannon Caron
Senior Communication Specialist, Unisys Corporation, Mission Viejo, CA
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Contributing editor in literature to BarnesandNoble.com; various multimedia projects completed
Ethan Gilsdorf
Public Relations and Student Events Director, Marlboro College, Vermont
Mark LaFlaur
Lisa Mcfarren
Editorial assistant to Journal of Sedimentary Research, a geoscience journal at MIT for 3 1/2 years;
now freelance scientific, literary and medical editing.
Dylan O'Leary
Member of editorial staff of The Morning Call (newspaper), Allentown, PA
Janet Wondra
Assistant editor, Georgia Review
John Zmirak
Political writer, Governor Foster's press person
NEA / NEH
Fellowships and Grants
- Tony Lewen, NEA
fellowship, 1993
- David Starkey, NEH grant, 1995
- Elizabeth Wing, NEH grants, 1983, 1994; NEA grant, 1993
- Dinty Moore, NEA fellowship, 1992
- William McDonald, NEA grant
Awards
- Olympia Vernon, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2004
MFA grads have
taught at these Institutions:
American
University in Cairo
Augusta State University
California Polytech State University
Community College in New York
Delgado Community College
Dillard University
Florida State University
Francis Marion University
Louisiana State University
Morehouse College
North Central College
Pennsylvania State University
Pomana College
Southern University
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida
University of Houston
University of New Orleans
University of Texas
Xavier University
Post MFA Degrees
- Jean Crown, PhD,
Rutgers
- Michael Dennison, PhD
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, PhD, New York University, 1998
- Martha Serpas, I MA, English, New York University, 1989; Master of Divinity, Yale Divinity School,
1994; PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, 1998
- Donna Glee Williams, PhD, LSU, 1994