Publications and Awards: GLS Students and Alumni
Elizabeth Andrew: Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir (nonfiction), Skinner House Books, 2005. On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness (essays), Basic Books, 2005, nominated for a Minnesota Book Award. Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir, Skinner House Books, 2000.
David Athey: Hunting and Gathering Heaven (poetry), Bellowing Ark Press, 2000.
Jane Bedell: Hildur, Queen of the Elves (novel), Interlink Publishing, 2006. Finding Courage: History’s Young Heroes and Their Amazing Deeds (nonfiction), Beyond Words Press, 2004.
John Bessler: Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota (nonfiction), University of Minnesota Press, 2004, nominated for a Minnesota Book Award. Kiss of Death: America’s Love Affair with the Death Penalty (nonfiction), Northeastern University Press, 2003, nominated for a Minnesota Book Award.
Kirsten Dierking: Northern Oracle (poetry), Spout Press, 2007. One Red Eye (poetry), Holy Cow! Press, 2001.
Ann Dybvik: Images of America: Menomonie (nonfiction), Arcadia Press, 2007.
Patti Frazee: cirkus (novel), Alyson Publications, 2006.
Dianne Gray: Tomorrow, the River (novel), Houghton Mifflin, 2006, winner of a Minnesota Book Award and a Nebraska Book Award, nominated for a Nebraska Golden Sower Award. Together Apart (novel), Houghton Mifflin, 2003, winner of a Nebraska Book Award, finalist for PEN USA Award and a Willa Award, recommended Feminist Book for Youth. Holding Up the Earth (novel), Houghton Mifflin, 2001, winner of the Willa Award, Best Books for Young Adults selection, Sequoyah “Best of the Best” selection, nominated for Golden Sower Award.
David Haight: Overdrive (novel), Beaver’s Pond Press, 2005.
Geoff Herbach: Saint Rimberg (novel), Crown/Three Rivers Press, 2008.
Ann Iverson: Definite Space (poetry), Holy Cow! Press, 2007. Come Now to the Window (poetry), Laurel Poetry Collective, 2005.
Pamela Carter Joern: The Plain Sense of Things (collected stories), University of Nebraska Press, 2008, was a Midwestern Booksellers Association Connections Pick. Her first novel, The Floor of the Sky, University of Nebraska Press, 2006, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, and won the Nebraska Book Award for Fiction. In 2009, The Floor of the Sky was selected for the One Book, One Columbus community reading program of Columbus, Nebraska. Pam won the Tamarack Award, sponsored by Minnesota Monthly Magazine, in 2008 for her short story “The Fireman,” and in 2001 for “Confessions.” Her work has appeared in the Red Rock Review, South Dakota Review, Water~Stone, Laurel Review, Feminist Studies, Minnesota Monthly and an anthology, Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace. She has work forthcoming in the Great River Review.
Nicole Kelby: Whale Season (novel), Random House, 2006. Theater of the Stars, A Novel of Physics and Memory (novel), Hyperion, 2003. In the Company of Angels (novel), Hyperion, 2001.
Kathleen Lindsay: Somewhere Between the Wind and Water (poetry), IGI Publishing, 2006.
Susan Montag: Finding the Way: A Tao for Down-to-Earth People (nonfiction), Nicolas-Hays Press, 2006.
Stephen Mueske: A Mnemonic for Desire (poetry), Ghost Road Press, 2006.
Nora Murphy and Julia Klatt Singer, co-authors: Twelve Branches, Stories from St. Paul (nonfiction), Coffee House Press, 2003.
David Oppegaard: The Suicide Collectors (novel), St. Martin's Press, 2008.
Bonnie Palmquist: Time Frame (poetry), Galde Press, 2003. Voices of Minnesota History (poetry), Galde Press.
Michelle Pollock: Regarding Memory (chapbook/poetry), Cross Keys Press, 2004.
Thomas Ruud: Unable for the World to Sleep (poetry), Laurel Poetry Collective, 2005.
George Richard Slade: Banking in the Greate Northern Territory (nonfiction), Afton Historical Society Press, 2005.
Maureen Millea Smith: When Charlotte Comes Home (novel), Alyson Publications, 2006.
Su Smallen: Weight of Light (poetry), Laurel Poetry Collective, 2005.
Susanna Styve: Miscellaneous Tender (poetry), Laurel Poetry Collective, 2004.
Marc Thompson: Oklahoma Heat (poetry chapbook), Red Moon Press, forthcoming.
Lois Welshons: Where the Moon Is (poetry), Laurel Poetry Collective, 2005.
Joan Wolf: Someone Named Eva (novel), Clarion, 2007, finalist for Society of Midland Authors Award, VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers List, Junior Library Guild Premier Selection Award.
Margaret Wurtele : Touching the Edge: A Mother’s Spiritual Path from Loss to Life (memoir), John Wiley & Sons, 2004, Taking Root: A Spiritual Memoir, St. Mary’s Press, 1998.
 GLS students and alums have appeared in the following: Minnesota Monthly Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Best New Poets 2005, The American Poetry Review, the Iowa Review, Southern Poetry Review, Speakeasy, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, Bellowing Ark, Modern Haiku, Tampa Review, South Dakota Review, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Law & Politics, Fourth Genre, The Oklahoma Review, The Red Rock Review, Mizna, The Comstock Review, Chelsea Review, Harvard Review, Mid-America Review, Isotope, Orion, Willow Springs, Blue Earth Review, Rio Grande Review, Water~Stone Review, The Seneca Review, Sojourn, Rake Magazine, Rock & Sling, Black Warrior Review, Blithe House Quarterly, Las Vegas Weekly Magazine, The Furnace Review, Edible Twin Cities, Confluence, The Mom Writer's Literary Magazine, Out of Line Anthology and many other magazines and journals.
Awards and Fellowships
Bush Foundation Fellowship, Loft McKnight Award, Minnesota Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Oregon Literary Fellowship, Jerome Travel and Study grant, Loft Mentor Series Award, Tamarack Award, Fulbright, Minnesota State Arts Board artist grant, Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity grant, Willa Award, Nebraska Book Award, SASE/Jerome grant, Distinguished Chemistry Alumnus Award, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, Alex Award.
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