Alumni Authors

 

 

A playful rhyming tale for ages 4-8, this story follows King Creet, who rashly covers his kingdom in leather after stubbing his toe. With humor and heart, it teaches problem-solving, responsibility, and acceptance, with a reader’s guide for parents and teachers.

 

 

Sociologist Asia Friedman examines debates over mammography, focusing on screening for women under 50 and broader assumptions about breast cancer. Using interviews and media analysis, she explores the “mammography wars” and how the sociology of attention reveals deeper cultural conflicts.

 

 

From perfect rice, potatoes, and broths to hearty stews, colorful stir-fries, hot and cold noodles, and delicate sorbet, Greenwood shows food to be a direct, daily way to understand Zen practice. With eloquent prose, she takes readers into monasteries and markets, messy kitchens and predawn meditation rooms, and offers food for thought that nourishes and delights body, mind, and spirit.

 

 

This book explores how optimization shapes our world, from airline schedules to Silicon Valley. Krumme traces its history and reveals its downsides—less resilience, fewer options, and a narrowing of perspective—challenging us to reconsider the costs of our obsession with efficiency.

 

 

A cogent examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion.

 

 

A photo-driven cookbook celebrating 102-year-old Italian immigrant Elda Cristini, who still makes pasta from scratch and grows her own tomatoes. Through recipes, photography, and essays, it explores independence, generational knowledge, and family. 

 

 

This manual offers tools for starting and maintaining successful groups, from psychotherapy to discussion groups. It includes sample agreements, screening systems, collaborative goal-setting, and strategies for diversity, inclusion, and online netiquette, making it an essential resource for both experienced and new group leaders.

 

 

In this anthology, Sandner explores the first hundred years of Frankenstein’s influence. This collection of short stories and excerpts from work published between 1818 to 1918 demonstrates what a pioneering myth Frankenstein has always been.

 

 

When LeeLee The Lizard hears about something delicious called pizza, she can't imagine what it might look like or taste like. But since lizards are not allowed at the Pizza Cafe or welcome at the Bakery, LeeLee decides she will make a pizza herself. She asks all her animal friends to help. This delightful, funny tale is filled to the brim with adorable animals and vivid color.

 

 

This memoir follows Rynecki’s emotional quest to recover the lost art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki. His paintings, scattered after his death in WWII, inspire Elizabeth's journey to rediscover his legacy, healing through the process of reclaiming his art and family history.

 

 

Fitting into a growing body of scholarship that consciously strives to integrate Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, Emily Gottreich here provides an original perspective by placing pressing issues in contemporary Moroccan society into their historical, and in their Jewish, contexts.

 

 

Raw is a guide to gourmet raw cuisine, featuring unique vegetarian and living food dishes. Combining ancient techniques with modern practicality, it offers vibrant flavors, textures, and nutritional benefits in meals like sun-baked pizzas, vegan sushi, and healthy desserts, all designed for body, mind, and soul.

 

 

Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed and violence lying in wait. Few people sipping a fine California Cabernet can even guess at the Tangled Vines where its life began.

 

 

Shaw explores African American art and representation through "rememory"—recovering forgotten narratives. Analyzing artists from Scipio Moorhead to Kehinde Wiley, she reinterprets history, challenging canonical views and expanding our understanding of art, memory, and cultural knowledge.

 

 

Focusing on female skateboarders, Sampson highlights the girls who have always been part of this male-dominated sport. Through her lens across California, Washington, and Oregon, she honors their resilience and skater girl power, increasing visibility and celebrating their role in breaking gender barriers.

 

 

The ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling, John Muir Laws’ book blends art, science, and enthusiasm. With step-by-step illustrations and exercises, it helps artists at any level improve skills, observe nature closely, and create accurate, expressive drawings.

 

 

Crawford’s vivid, imagistic poems capture life’s shimmer and sting. From playful to profound, her resonant voice celebrates everything—from sparkling cat glasses to contagious lies—in this passionately crafted chapbook.

 

 

Renowned management consultant Laura Freebairn-Smith explores how an abundance mindset fosters energetic, joyful, and productive leadership. She outlines strategies for boosting productivity, improving employee well-being, and shaping organizational culture to drive performance and satisfaction, making it essential for managers and business leaders.

 

 

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a New York Times bestseller, The Argonauts is a work of autotheory that explores desire, identity, family-making, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language.

 

 

Krell, a veteran prosecutor, recounts the takedown of Backpage.com, the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Blending memoir and legal insight, she reveals the battle against online exploitation, the prosecution of its executives, and the ongoing fight against human trafficking in the digital age.

 

A Cyberpunk Saga (series)

 

The A Cyberpunk Saga series is an international bestseller. If you enjoy everyman heroes, futuristic technology, and immersive dystopian worlds, then you’ll love Matthew A. Goodwin’s mind-expanding epic.

 

 

Poets notice what other people miss. Nationally-known poet Molly Fisk’s singular perspective on love, death, grammar, lingerie, small towns, and the natural world will get you laughing, crying, and thinking.

 

 

This no-nonsense guide for new teachers offers practical tools and tactics for surviving every school day with grace. From handling classroom chaos to acing Meet the Teacher Night, Kriegel's tips, based on real-life experience, help teachers thrive, not just survive.

 

 

A clarion call and evidence-based reparations plan for churches engaged in dismantling racism, this guide offers spiritual resources and practical steps for Christian institutions. Drawing from Black scholars and activists, it shows how churches can engage in truth-telling, restitution, and support for Black-led organizations working toward economic empowerment.

 

 

Walker explores love’s power and the heart’s limits in Adé. When Farida and Adé plan a simple life together, illness and civil war shatter their dreams. Haunting and exquisite, this timeless love story lingers long after the final page.

 

 

Gill helps people simplify their lives with practical minimalism and organization. LifeStyled offers quick, transformative tips for optimizing health, home, relationships, career, and finances. With actionable prompts, it empowers readers to create ease, alignment, and freedom—one small step at a time.

 

 

From 1980 to 1985, lead singer Andrew Eldritch guided The Sisters Of Mercy from Northern England’s pubs to London’s Royal Albert Hall—before it all fell apart. Based on extensive research, this book chronicles their rise from The Damage Done to First And Last And Always.

English Teacher 2010-2024

 

 

Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, this collection explores the various roles women play in family, home, and the world. Through vivid poems of motherhood and daughterhood, it reflects on care, collapse, and the shifting emotional landscapes of love, grief, and growth.

English Fellow 2016-2017

 

 

A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities. This instant New York Times bestseller is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction.

Health Educator 2005-Present

 

 

This essential guide empowers parents to spark crucial conversations with today's teenagers about consent, sexual harassment, healthy relationships, love, and more, helping them navigate their sexual journeys with confidence and understanding.