Book Publications by Bennington Writing Seminars graduates, as of March 2006

Books

Aragon, Margo ('96). A Little Bit of Wisdom: Conversations with a Nez Perce Elder (co-authored by Horace Axtell). Confluence Press (hardcover), 1997; University of Oklahoma Press (paperback), 2000.

Ashton, Sally ('03). These Metallic Days. Main Street Rag, 2005.

Balcarcel, Rebecca ('02). Ferry Crossing. Trilobite Press, 2002.

bandaele, asha ('99). The Subtle Art of Breathing. Moore Black Press, 2005.

bandele, asha. Daughter. Scribner, 2003.

bandele, asha. The Prisoner's Wife. Scribner, 1999.

Benz, Maudy ('96). Oh, Jackie. Story Line Press (hardcover), 1998; Berkley Books (paperback), 1999.

Clark, Jaime ('97). We're So Famous. Bloomsbury USA, 2001.

Conway, Mark ('98). Any Holy City. Silverfish Review Press, 2005.

Dalton, Trinie ('04). Wide Eyed. Akashic, 2005.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama ('99), ed. Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women. Hyperion, 2000.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama, ed. Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Woman. Norton, 2003.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression. Norton (hardcover), 1998; Ballatine (paperback), 1999.

Davis, Peter ('04), ed. Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art. Barnwood, 2005.

Davis, Peter. Hitler's Mustache. Barnwood, forthcoming (2006).

Factor, Jenny ('00). Unraveling at the Name. Copper Canyon Press, 2002.

Fox, Nicols ('99). Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art and Individual Lives. Shearwater Books, 2002.

Fox, Nicols. Alone Together. Pond Press, 2002.

Fox, Nicols. It Was Probably Something You Ate. Penguin, 1999.

Fox, Nicols. Spoiled. BasicBooks, HarperCollins, 1997.

Fraser, Lyn ('97). Understanding Financial Statements (6th Edition). Prentice Hall, 2001.

Fraser, Lyn. Understanding the Corporate Annual Report: Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws. Prentice Hall, 2003.

Fraser, Lyn. Prayers From the Darkness. Church Publishing, Inc., 2005.

Freas, Don ('96), ed. Angels, Einstein and You. Bookpartners, 1999.

Freas, Don. Letters to Sophie. Lost Arts Design, 2002.

Freas, Don. Natural History: New Poems. Lost Arts Books, 2000.

Gilberg, Gail ('97). Snake's Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War. University of Iowa Press, 1997.

Haaland, Tami ('00). Breath in Every Room. Story Line Press, 2001.

Haines, Lise ('02). In My Sister's Country. Penguin Putnam, 2003.

Haines, Lise. Small Acts of Sex and Electricity. Unbridled Books, September 2006.

Handal, Nathalie ('02). The NeverField Post. Apollo Press, 1999.

Handal, Nathalie. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. Interlink, 2001.

Handal, Nathalie. The Lives of Rain. Interlink, 2005.

Harbilas, David ('04). To the Man Renting Tuxedoes. Pudding House Publications, 2006.

Hopper, Ailish ('00). Bird in the Head. Center for Book Arts, 2005.

Ireland, Perrin ('96). Ana Imagined. Graywolf Press, 2000.

Ison, Tara ('99). A Child out of Alcatraz. Faber & Faber, Inc, 1997.

Ison, Tara. The List. Scribner, forthcoming 2007.

Johnson, Sarah Anne ('00). The Art of the Author Interview. University Press of New England, 2005.

Johnson, Sarah Anne. Conversations with American Women Writers. University Press of New England, 2004.

Johnson, Sarah Anne. The Very Telling. University Press of New England, 2006.

Jong-Fast, Molly ('04). The Sex Doctors in the Basement (aka Girl Maladjusted). Villard, 2005.

Kinney, Martha ('03). The Fall of the Heartless Horse. Akashic Books, 2004.

Lane, John ('96). Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River. The University of Georgia Press, 2004. Book-length personal narrative.

Lane, John. The Dead Father Poems. Horse & Buggy Press, 2000.

Lane, John. Noble Trees. Hub City Writers Project, 2003. Poems and Photos.

Lane, John. The Once-Again Wilderness: Following Wendell Berry into Kentucky's Red River Gorge, co-edited with Jeremy Jones. Holocene Publications, 2000.

Lane, John. Waist Deep in Black Water. The University of Georgia Press, 2002. Personal Essays.

Lane, John. The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South, co-edited with Gerald Thurmond. The University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Lenney, Dinah ('03) and Mary Lou Belli. Acting for Young Actors. Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill, 2006.

Lindop, Laurie ('06). The Starving Artist Survival Guide. Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Lindop, Laurie. Cave Sleuths. Lerner, 2004.

Lindop, Laurie. Chasing Tornadoes. Lerner, 2003.

Lindop, Laurie. The Dynamic Modern Women series (4 books). Henry Holt, 1995-96.

Lindop, Laurie. Probing Volcanoes. Lerner, 2003.

Lindop, Laurie. Venturing the Deep Sea. Lerner, 2004.

Livingston, Reb ('01), ed. The Bedside Guide to No-Tell Motel. No Tell Books, 2006.

Malone, Carol ('96). Offer. Elkmont Press, 1996.

May, John ('01). Poe & Fanny. Algonquin Books, 2004.

Melnicove, Mark ('00). Africa Is Not a Country. Millbrook, 2000.

Michelson, George ('98). Hard Bottom. UPNE, 2002.

Michelson, George. The Art and Practice of Explosion. UPNE, 2003.

Michelson, George. The Last Harbor. Bantam Doubleday. 2001.

Neidorf, Robin ('96). E-Merchant: Retail Strategies for e-Commerce, co-authored with Joanne Neidorf. Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Ohlson, Kristen ('01). Stalking the Divine. Hyperion, 2003.

Recknagel, Marsha ('99). If Nights Could Talk. St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Rodgers, Susan Jackson ('03). The Trouble with You Is and Other Stories. Mid-List Press, 2004.

Rose, Isabel ('97). The Jap Chronicles. Doubleday, 2005.

Rowell, John ('03). The Music of Your Life. Simon and Schuster (hardcover), 2003; Simon and Schuster (paperback), 2004.

Salerno, Christopher ('03). Whirlygig. Spuyten Duyvil (NYC), 2006.

Salerno, Christopher. Waving Something White. Independent Press, 2003.

Silver, Don ('99). Backward Facing Man: A Novel. Ecco/Harper Collins, 2005.

Turner, Carol ('97). Economics for the Impatient. Clearwater Publishing, 2002.

Warner, Rebecca ('02). Northwest Passage. Orchises Press, 2005.

Warren, Lissa ('99). The Savvy Author's Guide to Book Publicity, Carroll and Graf, 2004.

Weintraub, Amy ('00). Yoga and Depression: A Compassionate Practice to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga. Broadway Books, 2004.

Contributions to Books

Angrist, Misha ('01). "So Much the Better," in Best New American Voices 2004, ed. John Casey. Harvest Book, 2003.

Aragon, Margo ('96) and Horace Axtell. "A Drink of Water to All Things," in Written on Water, ed. Mary Clearman Blew. University of Idaho Press, 2001.

Aragon, Margo and Horace Axtell. "It Begins with Fire," in Forged in Fire: Essays by Idaho Writers, ed. Mary Clearman Blew and Phil Drucker. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Balcarcel, Rebecca ('02). Essay in My Heart's First Steps: Writings That Celebrate the Gifts of Parenthood, ed. Jennifer Graf Groneberg. Adams Media, 2004.

bandele, asha ('99). Contributions to Beyond the Frontier. Black Classic Press, 2002.

bandele, asha. Contributions to Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women. Norton, 2003.

bandele, asha. Contributions to The Kingdom of Our Culture. Doubleday/Harlem Moon, 2003.

Barenblat, Rachael ('99). Poem in Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women. Mad River Press, 2002.

Barenblat, Rachael. Poem in Holding True: An Anthology of Berkshire Poets. Mad River Press, 1999.

Barenblat, Rachael. Poem in Is This Forever, or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. Greenwillow Books, 2004.

Barenblat, Rachael. Poem in The Best of PIF Magazine Off-Line. Fusion Press, 2000.

Beaufrand, Mary Jane ('98). Contribution to Tales of Two, ed. Jennifer Margolis. Seal Press, 2003.

Benz, Maudy ('96). Interview in The Long Way Around, ed. Emily A. Colin. Carolina Women's Press, 2000.

Button, Wendy ('96). "Climbers," in Best of the Fiction Workshops, ed. Natalie Danforth. Scribner's, 1997.

Clausi, Victoria ('96). "A Letter to Mother," in the anthology Roots & Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family, ed. Liz Rosenberg. Henry Holt, 2001.

Coleman, Charisse ('01). "Matters of Life or Death," in the anthology Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty, James R. Acker & David R. Karp, editor, Carolina Academic Press, 2006.

Conway, Mark ('98). Essay in Divine Favor: The Art of Joseph O'Connell, eds. Colin O'Connell and J.F. Powers. Liturgical Press, 1999.

Conway, Mark. Poems in The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth-Century Elegy, ed. Lynn Strongin. University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama ('99). Contribution to Child of Mine: Writers Talk About Their First Year of Motherhood, ed. Christina Baker Kline. Hyperion, 1997.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Contribution to Everything But the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black Culture, ed. Greg Tate. Broadway Books, 2003.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Contribution to Fast Talk/Full Volume, ed. Alan Spears. Gut Punch Press, 1993.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Contribution to Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural, ed. Claudine O'Hearn. Pantheon, 1998.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Contribution to Memories of Sun, ed. Jane Kurtz. Greenwillow Books, 2004.

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Contribution to Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, ed. Nell Casey. Morrow, 2001.

Douglas, Kathy ('02). Essay in I am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women, eds. Dana Carpenter and Woody Winfree. Rose Communication, 1999; second edition Alliance House, 2000.

Edgerly, Len ('03). Contribution to Poets Against the War, ed. Sam Hamill and Sally Anderson. Nation Books, 2003.

Elyshevitz, Alan ('99). "Lapakahi, Hawaii," and "Poland 1990," in Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places, ed. Maureen Tolman Flannery. John Gorden Burke Publishers, 2000.

Elyshevitz, Alan. "The Caretakers," in Meridian Bound, ed. Joy E. Stock. Pella, 2000.

Factor, Jenny ('00). Poems in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. Random House, 2003.

Factor, Jenny. Poems in Rising Phoenix: New Poets of the Expansive Movement. World Press, 2003.

Factor, Jenny. Poems in The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles. Red Hen Press, 2003.

Factor, Jenny. Poems in The Poet's Child. Copper Canyon Press, 2002.

Farmer, Ruth ('96). "Maxine Kumin," in The Encyclopedia of New England Culture, 2004.

Fox, Nicols ('99). Essay in 75 Readings: An Anthology. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1997.

Fox, Nicols. Essay in Epidemics: Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1999.

Fraser, Lyn. ('97). "Ex Libris," in Texas Short Stories, ed. Billy Bob Hill. Browder Springs Press, 1997.

Fraser, Lyn. "My Father's Windmill: Daily Grieving in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon," in Bright Unequivocal Eye, ed. Bert G. Hornback. Peter Lang, 2000.

Freas, Don ('96). "At the Crossing," "Between the Feet of Giants," and "Where You Are," in Ends of the Earth. New Market Press, 1997.

Freas, Don. "Father in the Mill," in From Daughters and Sons to Fathers: What I've Never Said, ed. Constance Warloe. Story Line Press, 2001.

Freas, Don. "Manhattan: A Primer," "Clothes Horse," "Lewis and Clark," and "Listening to Autumn," in Stacking Stones. New Market Press, 1996.

Gilberg, Gail ('97). Chapter from Snake's Daughter in Coming of Age, Volume Two. National Textbook Company, 1998.

Gray, Robert ('03). "An Art of the Fugue," in Northern Music: Poems About and Inspired by Glenn Gould, ed. J.D. Smith. John Gordon Burke Publisher Inc., 2001.

Haaland, Tami ('00). Contribution to Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream. Story Line Press, 2000.

Haaland, Tami. Contribution to Hard Ground I. Pronghorn Press, 2001.

Haaland, Tami. Contribution to Ring of Fire: Writers of the Yellowstone Region. Rocky Mountain Press, 2000.

Haaland, Tami. Poem in The Best of PIF Magazine Off-line. Fusion Press, 2000.

Haaland, Tami. Poem in Eat Our Words: Montana Writers Cookbook. Helena MT: Far Country Press, 2006.

Haines, Lise ('02). "Ice Breaker," in What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, ed. Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter. Longman Publishing Group, 1997.

Haines, Lise. "The Way They Do The Things They Do," WRITE NOW: Writing Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers, Sherry Ellis, Tarcher Penguin Putnam, September 2006.

Handal, Nathalie ('02). "Bethlehem," in The Space Between Our Footsteps, ed. Naomi Shihab Nye. Simon & Schuster, 1998

Handal, Nathalie. "Poetry as Homeland: A Letter to Lisa Suhair Majaj," in Post-Gibran, ed. Khaled Mattawa and Munir Akash. Syracuse University Press 1999.

Handal, Nathalie. "Boston Yellow Cabs," in An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers From 2 Coasts, ed. Scott Davis. Cune Press, 1997.

Handal, Nathalie. "Even," in 100 Poets Against War, ed. Todd Swift. Salt Publishing UK and Australia, 2003.

Handal, Nathalie. "In Search of Midnight," "El Almuerzo de Tia Habiba," "Detained," and "The Conflict," in Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing, ed. Susan Muaddi Darraj. Greenwood/Praeger, 2004.

Handal, Nathalie. "My Country, My Words: Reflections of my Life as a Writer," in Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing, ed. Susan Muaddi Darraj. Greenwood/Praeger, 2004.

Handal, Nathalie. "Rooftops" and "The Blue Jacket," in A Crack in the Wall, ed. Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon. Saqi Books, 2000.

Handal, Nathalie. "Shades of a Bridge's Breath," in This Bridge We Call Home: Embodying the Spirit of This Bridge Called My Back, ed. Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating. Routledge, 2002.

Handal, Nathalie. "The Blue Jacket" and "Rooftops," in A Different Path, ed. D.H. Melhem and Laila Diab. Wayne State University/The Ridgeway Press, 2000.

Handal, Nathalie. "The Lives of Rain," in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, ed. Ulrich Baer. New York University Press, 2002.

Harwood, Stacey ('96). "Contributors' Notes" in Best American Poetry 2005. Paul Muldoon, ed. Scribner, 2005.

Hertneky, Paul ('01). "Il Sentimento della Casa (A Sense of Home)" and "The Last Mill in Town" in Where the Mountain Stands Alone, Univ. Press of New England, August 2006.

Ison, Tara ('99). "Cactus," in Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, ed. Rob Spillman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.

Ison, Tara. Contribution to Another City: Writing from Los Angeles, ed. David Ulin. City Lights Publishers, 2001.

Ison, Tara. “Timing," in Lost on Purpose: Women in the City, ed. Amy Prior. Seal Press, 2005.

Jenkins, Amy ('06). Essay contribution in A Woman's Journey. Promise Press, 2002.

Jenkins, Amy. Essay contribution in Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul. Health Communications, Inc., 2004.

Jenkins, Amy. Essay contribution in Cup of Comfort for Inspiration. Adams Media, 2003.

Jenkins, Amy. Essay contribution in God Allows U-Turns. Promise Press, 2001.

Jenkins, Amy. Essay contribution in Journeys of Friendship. Promise Press, 2004.

Jenkins, Amy. Essay contribution in Women on Writing: From Inspiration to Publication. The McConnell Group, 2001.

Jones, Alden ('01). "Lard Is Good for You," in The Best American Travel Writing, eds. Bill Bryson and Jason Wilson. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Kim, Eugenia S ('01). "Science Project," in The Spirit of Pregnancy, ed. Bonni Goldberg. Contemporary Books, 2000.

Kim, Eugenia S. "The Fire Tower," in Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, ed. Elaine Kim and Laura Kang. Temple University Press, 2003.

Korfhage, Christine ('01). "My Father's Voice," in Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, ed. Elaine Kim and Laura Kang. Temple University Press, 2003.

Kravetz, Christine ('98). "Margie" in NPR Anthology: I Thought My Father was God. Henry Holt, 2001.

Lane, John ('96). "The River Wild," essay in Adventure America. National Geographic Press, 2002.

Lane, John. "Three Poems" in Manifestations: The d'Arts Literary Anthology, edited by Gary Corseri. The DeKalb Council for the Arts, 2004.

Lane, John. "Six Poems and a Statement," in Elemental South, edited by Dorinda Dalmeyer. The University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Lane, John. "Donald Hall," entry in The Encyclopedia of New England. University Press of New Englad, 2005.

Lane, John. "Six Poems," in The Lawson's Fork: Headwaters to Confluence, by David Taylor & Gary Henderson. Hub City Writers Project, 2000.

Lane, John. "Confluence: Pacolet River," essay in Heart of a Nation. National Geographic Press, 2000.

Lane, John. "Four Improvisational Poems," in liner notes for Mark O'Connor's Midnight on the Water CD. Sony Records, 1998.

Lane, John. "Four Poems," in A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry. Ninety-Six Press, 2005.

Lane, John. "Foreword," for Ossabaw: Evocations of an Island. University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Lane, John. "Five Poems and a Brief Statement," in Twent: South Carolina Poetry Fellows. Hub City Writers Project, 2005.

Lane, John. "The Inheritance of Autumn," one of 12 essays in A Year in Place edited by Bret Lott. The University of Utah Press, 2000.

Lenney, Dinah ('03). "Signs" in the anthology Get On The Bus. City-Space, 2006.

Lindop, Laurie ('06). Before: Writings About Pregnancy by Our Top Writers. Overlook, 2005.

Livingston, Reb ('01). "That's Not Butter," in Best American Poetry 2006. Scribner, 2006.

Livingston, Reb. "Thoughts on Indoor Living," in In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself--Volume 6, MWE Enterprises, 2005.

Livingston, Reb. "Depression" in It's All Good: How Do You Like It Here NOW? Manic D Press, 2004.

Males, William ('98). "Bridge Day," broadcast by BBC World Service, 1997.

Melnicove, Mark ('00). Contribution to Encyclopedia of American Poetry, ed. Eric L. Haralson and John Hollander. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

Neidorf, Robin ('96). "Communion," in The Book Group Book, ed. Ellen Slezak. Chicago Review Press, 2000 and 2002.

Neidorf, Robin. "Two Jews, Three Opinions," in Listen Up: Voices of the Next Feminist Generation, ed. Barbara Findlen. Seal Press, 1997 and 2001.

Patrick, Oona Hyla ('01). Essay in The Text-Wrestling Book, eds. Donna LeCourt and the UMass Writing Program. Kenall/Hunt, 2005.

Renshaw, Camille ('99). Contribution to Gig: Americans Talk About their Work at the Turn of the Millenium. Crown Bowe & Bowe, 2000.

Saville, Laurel ('04). Design Secrets: Furniture. Rockport Publishers, 2006.

Schutz, Lacy ('99). "Robert Creely," "Denise Levertov," "Black Mountain Poets," and "Richard Hugo," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. Jay Parini. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Siasoco, Ricco ('01). Contribution to Growing Up Filipino, ed. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. PALH, 2003.

Siasoco, Ricco. Contribution to Screaming Monkeys, ed. M. Evelina Galang and Eileen Tabios. Coffee House Press, 2003.

Siasoco, Ricco. Contribution to Take Out, ed. Quang Bao, et al. Asian American Writers Workshop, 2001.

Siegel, Gail Louise ('03). Fiction in Consumed: Women on Excess, ed. Savannah Schroll. So New Media, 2005.

Siegel, Gail Louise. "Hunting the Moon," in the anthology Big Water: Women Writing from the Freshwater Heart of America, ed. Alison Swann. Michigan State University Press, 2004.

Siegel, Gail Louise. Fiction in Lost on Purpose: Women in the City, ed. Amy Prior. Seal Press, February 2005.

Spears, Rebecca ('02). Poem in Texas in Poetry 2. TCU Press, 2003.

Stamm, Joan ('98). Contribution to The Best Spiritual Writing of 2001, ed. Philip Zalesky and Andre Dubus. HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.

Stamm, Joan. Contributions to How to Haiku, 2002.

Taylor, Anita Darcel ('04). Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America. Seal Press, 2004.

Turner, Carol ('97). "Cottonwood Silk" in Love's Shadow: Stories by Women, ed. Amber Coverdale Sumrall. Crossing Press, 1993.

Walker, Sarai ('03). Contributed a chapter to Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era. Touchstone, 2005.

Wallace, Garry ('01). Dry Ground: Writing the Desert Southwest. Pronghorn Press, 2002.

Wallace, Garry. Hard Ground 2000: Writing the Rockies. Pronghorn Press, 2000.

Wallace, Garry. Hard Ground 2001: Wiriting the Rockies. Pronghorn Press, 2001.

Wallace, Garry. Dense Growth 2002: Writing the Pacific Northwest. Pronghorn Press, 2002.

Wallace, Garry. Hard Ground III: Writing the Rockies. Pronghorn Press, 2003.

Wallace Garry. Hard Ground IV: Writing the Rockies. Pronghorn Press, 2004.

Weisman, Annette ('99). Essay in Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women. Hyperion, 2001.

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