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Billy-Ray Belcourt: Coexistence
A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature’s most boundless minds.
Rebecca Wood Barrett: My Summer Camp Has Mega Sloths
In this follow-up to the award-winning My Best Friend Is Extinct, Henry and his friends attend a summer camp led by a shady head counselor. Luckily, there’s still fun to be had: Henry reunites with Yarp, a prehistoric short-faced bear, and discovers a herd of gentle mega sloths. When a wildfire encroaches, everyone has to band together to escape.
Page Getz: A Town with Half the Lights On
A Town with Half the Lights On is a tender testament to the notions that home isn’t just the place you live, family isn’t just your relatives, and it’s almost never easy to find the courage to do what’s right.
Yifan Li, MFA 2025
Yifan Li’s thesis is a novel entitled Tumbleweed.
natasha gauthier, MFA 2025
natasha gauthier’s thesis is a hybrid memoir entitled Restless//Reckless.
Dawn Amber Tonks, MFA 2025
Dawn Amber Tonks’s thesis is a screenplay entitled The International Auntie Pageant.
Paulina Dominguez, MFA 2025
Paulina Dominguez’s graduate thesis is a speculative novel entitled Sonambula.
Logan Garner: The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds
The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds is filled with huckleberries, bats, barn swallows, flowers, fish, frogs. The “I” of the poem speaker finds itself through observation of what is all around: the living and the dying, and the things that live through soil.
Lava Alapai, MFA 2025
Lava Alapai’s graduate thesis is full length play entitled TikTok Zoom; Or, That One Time in 2020.
Valentina Sierra, MFA 2025
Valentina Sierra’s graduate thesis is a feature film screenplay entitled A Raging Sea.