The English Department

(PhD 2003, Fiction) is the author of four books, including Newsworld, which won the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. His short stories have been included in Best American Short Stories.

(MA 2003, Poetry) is the author of two poetry collections: The Book of Hulga (2016), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, and The Alphabet Conspiracy (2011), winner of the 2012 Drake Emerging Writers Award. Her poetry has been anthologized in Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (2005) and Poetry From Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology (2004). Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Discovery/the Nation award.

(MFA 2002, Fiction) is the author of the novels Criminal, which was an Edgar Award nominee, and Pure, which was included among the “25 Books All Young Georgians Should Read” by the Georgia Center for the Book. Her other novels include After the Kiss, Being Friends with Boys, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, and In Deep, all of which are published with Simon & Schuster.

(PhD 2001, Fiction) is the author of Cosmic Hotel (Catapult, 2016). His work has appeared in Fiction, The Southern Review, Oxford American, and elsewhere. He was a Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford University.

(PhD 2001, Fiction) is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House, 2012), and the story collection Fortune Smiles (Random House, 2016), which won the National Book Award. His other works include the story collection Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

(BA 2000, Creative Writing) is an investigative journalist. In 2016 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the failures of Florida’s mental healthcare system in the story “Insane. Invisible. In Danger.” He has also won an ESPY Award and a 2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative Business Journalism.

(BA 1998, Creative Writing) is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross, winner of the 2008 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize; and the novel The Eden Hunter, a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His second novel, The Other Joseph, was published in 2015, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

(PhD 1998, Fiction) is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections.

(PhD 1998, Fiction) is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. Her novel Cookie & Me was published in 2010.

(BA 1997, Creative Writing) is a comedian and actor who hosts the podcast The Bertcast and cohosts the podcast Bill and Bert with comedian Bill Burr. He has hosted the series Hurt Bert (FX), as well as the Travel Channel’s Bert the Conqueror and Trip Flip. He is the author of the memoir Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child (St. Martin’s Press, 2014). He has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Conan.