Erik Anderson (RC 2000) published an article about a recent visit to East Quad in The September 2016 issue of The American Scholar (titled “Endurance Matters More Than Talent”). He is the author of The Poetics of Trespass (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2010), as well as two forthcoming books: Estranger (Rescue Press, 2016) and Flutter Point (Zone 3 Press, 2017).
Peter Anderson (RC 1972) is the recipient of eight Jessie Richardson Awards, a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Leo and Gemini nominations for best performance (The Overcoat), and a NY Drama Desk nomination.
Jeanette Bradley (RC 1994) published her debut picture book, Love, Mama, in 2018 (Roaring Brook Press). Forthcoming is Taking the Mic: Fourteen Young Americans Making Change, which she co-edited and illustrated (Charlesbridge, 2020).
Carmen Bugan (RC 1996)’s poetry collections include Crossing the Carpathians (2004), The House of Straw (2014), Releasing the Porcelain Birds (2016) and Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems (2019). She has also published a memoir, Burying the Typewriter (2012), and Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile (2013). A book of essays, Poetry and the Language of Oppression, will be published in March 2021 by Oxford University Press.
Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (RC 2008, Arts and Ideas) is the author of Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).
Anna Clark (RC 2003) delivered the James H. and Jean B. Robertson Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 19, 4 pm in the RC’s Keene Theater. Anna is the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Macmillan, 2018).
Bob Clifford (RC 1979)’s latest collection of poetry, Gasping for Air, was published in 2015.
Ellen Dreyer (RC 1983) has published or edited over 60 books for young readers. She received the Bank Award for The Glow Stone (Peachtree, 2006).
Allison Epstein (RC 2014) is the author of A Tip for the Hangman, a historical thriller about the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, due out from Doubleday in Spring 2021.
Dennis Foon (RC 1973) has received many awards for his screenplays, which include Life Above All (Oscar shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film) and On The Farm, 2018 Leo winner for best screenplay. His novels include The Longlight Legacy trilogy and Skud (BC Book Prize). His 2017 feature film Indian Horse is available on Netflix (Crave in Canada). A recent script, Dreams of the Moon, should start filming in autum 2010. Dennis co-wrote the script for Sawah (2019); the movie won the CinemaEuropa Prize in Shanghai.
Matt Forbeck (RC 1989) recently published Halo: Bad Blood, the new series Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Questbooks, the Star Wars: Rogue One junior novel, Dungeonology, and The Marvel Encyclopedia, plus work on Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and the Shotguns & Sorcery roleplaying game based on his novels.
Alyson Foster (RC 2004) published a collection of stories, The Place of the Holy (Bloomberg, 2016), and God Is An Astronaut (Bloomberg, 2014).
Barry Garelick (RC Mathematics, 1971) has published several books. Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math While Looking Over Your Shoulder, is to be published by John Catt, LLC in Fall 2020.
Robin Lily Goldberg (RC 2010) published her first book in 2014, a poetry collection called The Sound of Seeds (Charing Cross Press).
Amy Gustine (RC 1991) is the author of the story collection You Should Pity Us Instead (Sarabande Books), a finalist for the 2017 Ohioan Book Award in Fiction. She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention.
James Guthrie (RC 1973) is author of A Kiss from Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and Law (2015), Above Time: Emerson’s and Thoreau’s Temporal Revolutions (2001) and Emily Dickinson’s Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry (1998).
Merrie Haskell (RC 2002)’s Handbook for Dragon Slayers (Katherine Tegan Books, 2014) won the 2014 Schneider Family Book Award for Middle Grades and the DetCon1 Middle Grade Speculative Fiction award.
Christine Montross (RC 1995, French Literature, Environmental Science) was a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Recent books include Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration (Penguin, July 2o20) and Falling Into the Fire: A Pyschiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis (Penguin, 2013)
Nicholas Petrie (RC 1990) was RC Writer in Residence in October 2016. He is the author of the Peter Ash novels: The Wild One (2020), Tear It Down (2019), Light It Up (2018), Burning Bright (2017), and The Drifter (2016). A sixth Ash novel, The Breaker, is forthcoming.
Elizabeth Schmuhl (RC 2006) has published Premonitions (Wayne State University Press, 2018), and Presto Agitato: A Dictionary of Modern Movement (Zoo Cake Press, 2015).
Carrie Smith (RC 1999) was RC Writer in Residence in February 2016. She is the author of three Claire Codella novels: Unholy City (2017), Forgotten City (2017), and Silent City (2015).
Holly Wren Spaulding (RC 1997) has published two poetry collections: If August (Alice Greene and Co., 2017) and Pilgrim (Alice Greene and Co., 2014). Fleda Brown selected The Grass Impossibly for the 2008 Michigan Cooperative Press Chapbook Prize. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Familiars, will be published in 2020.
Laura Hulthen Thomas (RC 1989) is the program head of the Residential College’s creative writing program, and the author of States of Motion (Wayne State University Press, 2017).
