The English Department

(PhD 2017, Fiction) is the author of two novels: Marriage of a Thousand Lies, winner of the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award, and Blue-Skinned Gods (Soho Press, 2021). She has published two graphic novels with Harper Collins, titled Shakti and Guardians of Ashkara. Her hybrid genre chapbook I Once Met You But You Were Dead (Split/Lip Press, 2016) won the 2016 Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Her chapbook Dominant Genes (Black Lawrence Press) will be published in 2022. She is a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow.

(PhD 2016, Fiction) is the author of the novel I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His fiction and essays have been published in Narrative Magazine, Salon, The Literary Review, Epoch, The Kenyon Review, and The Best American series.

(PhD 2016, Fiction) is the author of two novels: Family of Origin (Doubleday 2019) and The From-Aways (William Morrow 2014). A work of nonfiction, The Crane Wife & Other Essays, is forthcoming from Doubleday in the US and Viking UK in Spring 2022. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

(PhD Poetry, 2016) is the author of Count Four (University of Tampa Press, 2020), the winner of the 2019 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. His poems and criticism have appeared in Best New Poets and in many journals. He is the author of the critical text Asking a Shadow to Dance: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry (GRL, 2018) and a recipient of the International Award for Excellence from the Books, Publishing, & Libraries Research Network.

(PhD 2015, Fiction) is the author of the novel Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones and the story collection Electricity and Other Dreams. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and was awarded the Calvino Prize. His writing has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2015, Fiction) is the author of The History of Living Forever (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). His stories and essays have appeared in One Story, American Short Fiction, Tin House, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2014, Fiction) is the author of What Counts as Love, the winner of the University of Iowa Short Fiction Awards (John Simmons Award). The book also received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2013, Fiction) is the author of Make Way for Her and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2018) and Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories (ELJ Publications, 2015). Her writing has been published in The Indiana Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and anthologized in Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press). She is Fiction Editor at Iron Horse Literary Review.

(PhD 2012, Poetry) is the author of Thus Spake Gigolo (NYQ Books, 2014).

(MFA 2012, Fiction) is the author of the short story collection, The Rock Eaters (Penguin Books, 2021). Her work appears at Tor.com, The Georgia Review, The Sun, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her stories have won a Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best Small Fiction, and The Best Microfiction.