New Pages

Feeling nostalgic for fall required reading? Dig into this list of new publications from English faculty, alumni, and even students--including a novel about a mermaid (by Amy Shearn), a short story about a Civil War submarine (by Ethan Rutherford), a memoir of a premature birth (by Kate Hopper), and a study of alliterative romances of the mid-fourteenth century (by Alex Mueller).


Swati Avasthi (MFA '10)
Chasing Shadows [young adult novel]
Knopf, 2013
Associate Professor Tony C. Brown
The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic
University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Associate Professor Peter Campion
El Dorado [poetry]
University of Chicago Press, 2013
Scott Dominic Carpenter (BA 1980)
This Jealous Earth [short stories]
MG Press, 2013
Scott Dominic Carpenter (BA 1980)
Theory of Remainders [novel]
Winter Goose Publishing, 2013

John Colburn (BA 1990, MFA 1996)
Invisible Daughter [poetry]
firthFORTH Books, 2013
John Colburn (BA 1990; MFA 1996)
Psychedelic Norway [poetry]
Coffee House Press, 2013
Meryl Depasquale (MFA 2010)
Dreams of a Perfect Interface [chapbook]
Dancing Girl Press, 2013
Julie A. Eckerle (PhD 2002)
Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing
Ashgate, 2013
Kevin Fenton (MFA 2005)
Leaving Rollingstone [memoir]
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013
See our interview here.
Sarah Fox (MFA 2012)
The First Flag [poetry]
Coffee House, 2013
Alex Grant (MFA 2012)
Collected Alex [chapbook]
Caketrain, 2012
Erin Hart (MA 1995)
The Book of Killowen [novel]
Scribner, 2013
Katherine Holmes (MA 1985)
The Wide Awake Loons [middle grades novel]
Silver Knight Publishing, LLC, 2013
Kate Hopper (MFA 2005)
Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood [memoir]
University of Minnesota Press, 2013
Judith Katz, Undergraduate Studies advising staff
The Escape Artist [novel]
Bywater Books reprint, 2013
Emily Bright Krusack (MFA 2008) with Dr. Mickey Kolis
Powerful Ideas in Teaching: Creating Environments Where Students Want to Learn
Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012
Norah Labiner (MFA 1996)
Let the Dark Flower Blossom [novel]
Coffee House Press, 2013
May Lee-Yang (BA 2006)
The Imaginary Day [middle grades novel]
MN Humanities Center and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, 2012
See our interview here.
Mary Logue (BA 1975)
Giving Up the Ghost [novel]
serialized in the Minnesota Star Tribune, 2013
Carrie Lorig (MFA candidate)
nods. [chapbook]
Magic Helicopter Press, 2013

Carrie Lorig (MFA candidate) with Russ Woods
Roots [chapbook]
Radioactive Moat, 2013
Eireann Lorsung (MFA 2006)
Her Book [poetry]
Milkweed Editions, 2013
Rachel Moritz (MFA 2006)
Elementary Rituals [chapbook]
Albion Books, 2013
Alex Mueller (PhD 2007)
Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance
Ohio University Press, 2013
See our interview here.
Mary Nyquist (BA)
Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
University of Chicago Press, 2013

John Pistelli (PhD 2013)
The Ecstasy of Michaela [novel]
Valhalla Press, 2012
Ethan Rutherford (MFA 2009)
The Peripatetic Coffin [short stories]
Ecco, 2013
See our interview here.
Amy Shearn (MFA 2005)
The Mermaid of Brooklyn [novel]
Touchstone, 2013
Francine Marie Tolf (MFA 2006)
Eighteen Poems to God and a Poem to Satan [chapbook]
Red Bird Chapbooks, 2012