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Margo LaPierre, MFA 2025
Margo LaPierre’s graduate thesis is a literary novel entitled Lucid Mechanics
Siavash Saadlou, MFA 2025
Siavash Saadlou’s graduate thesis is a collection of stories entitled Think of the Sea.
Suzanne Kamata: River of Dolls and Other Stories
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between desire and duty, as well as the conflicting expectations of different cultures.
Léa Taranto: A Drop in the Ocean
An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.
Anosh Irani: Behind the Moon
Behind the Moon is a story of love and loss, freedom and faith, the meaning of brotherhood, and how we begin a new life.
Timothy Taylor: The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything.
Minelle Mahtani: May It Have a Happy Ending
A searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice.
Tonya Lailey: Farm: Lot 23
Tonya Lailey’s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agriculture.
Sarah Leavitt: Something, Not Nothing
A poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir about love and loss and navigating a new life.
Catherine Young: Black Diamonds
A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.