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Marnie Leonard (970) 491-2403 Marnie.Leonard@colostate.edu

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Recent MFA Faculty Publications

	JUDY DOENGES "In her first novel, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, Doenges continues her incomparable and unshakably honest explorations of apparently ordinary people through the eyes of Robin, a teenager whose quiet rebellions camouflage a private life of vivid, unshakable desires. A first novel of great truth and resonance.” -Lan Samantha Chang, author of Inheritance
	STEENSEN: "An alternative history, offering alternative myths, of the founding of the United States of America. Where religion must be erased and where industry is a given, magic steps in with its hoaxes and promises. In A Magic Book, Sasha Steensen deftly inscribes, using treatise, factoid, rhyme, and timeline, the choices we have made, culturally, against a belief in invisibility: What we have not seen, must not be."
	COOPERMAN: "Colloquial, cerebral, and deeply felt, the poems in A Sacrificial Zinc are an absolutely compelling mix of formal adventurousness, dazzling diction, and good story ... Matthew Cooperman is a very funny poet who is chronically interested and interesting. When he risks straightforward sweetness, he can also break your heart." —Maggie Anderson.
	MILOFSKY: “David Milofsky’s latest is a rousing Vanity Fair of a novel, turning real life Milwaukee into a vibrant mosaic of American life with its hustlers and gangsters, its chess champions and lusty housemaids, its next door neighbors who went to grade school in Germany with Henry Kissinger. The young narrator is wide-eyed but cool, sympathetic but unsparing, and he tells this story with verve and wit and real insight. A first-rate piece of authentic Americana.” —George Cuomo, author of Amoung Thieves and Trial by Water.
	CALDERAZZO: "With skill and aplomb, John Calderazzo leads us on two enthralling journeys--one into the depths of the earth, one into the depths of the mind. Just as lava boiling up from the planet's core creates new land where life may lodge, so ideas inspired by volcanoes in scientists, residents, tourists, myth-makers, and the author himself create new terrain where imagination may roam."---Scott Russell Sanders, author of Hunting for Hope and The Force of Spirit.
	BECKER "Nine stories in a first collection that won 1995's First Series Award for short fiction. An entertaining debut collection, often quite reminiscent of Raymond Carver's work, about quiet, decent people undercut by their faulty images of themselves." -Kirkus Reviews
	CALDERAZZO: "This lively and entertaining guide to writing literary nonfiction will appeal to all writers, from aspiring students to seasoned professionals. In a witty and anecdotal style, Calderazzo takes his reader with him as he writes and rewrites a personal essay on movie stunt artists and the nature of hero worship."
	CROW: "Mary Crow's poems guide us through intricately perceived terrains of memory with a painter's restless eye for color and landscape. Her work shines with clarity and intelligence, delicately balancing ethical and sensual concerns. Here is a book that makes intimate connections out of the world's perturbations and joy. Praises." -Colette Inez
	DOENGES: "What She Left Me manages to startle on any number of fronts. It's a superb debut that recalls a range of known entities from Jayne Anne Phillips to Dorothy Allison to Denis Johnson."- Katherine Dieckmann, New York Times Book Review
	MILOFSKY: "A wonderful novel. I found it absolutely absorbing and was impressed by the author's ambition and achievement. . . . As complex as the story becomes, it's never sprawling. Everything belongs. . . . The writing is lean and sinewy, stripped of pretense and decoration. The right words are in the right places, and the words count. It's the kind of writing that looks easy and is too often undervalued. The story is powerful and fascinating. . . . Milofsky has produced a fine novel in the grand tradition of narrative literature."-George Cuomo, author of Family Honor and A Couple of Cops
	SCHWARTZ: "Every so often there is a novel that can be summed up in a single word--not the plot, but the overwhelming emotion one may feel while reading it. The word for Therapy is pleasure. This is the type of book that makes you hope your bus ride is extra long so you can sit there and read it, laughing and sad at the same time, your life temporarily given over to these wonderful characters."-Los Angeles Times
	TREMBLAY: "The harsh, complex clarity and the paradoxically tender compassion of this book make an extraordinary power for the dimensions of its hero, Duhamel. No work of recent poetry has entered such a ground at all. Bill Tremblay offers a unique testament to a world whose brutal fragility has found no other way to speak."-Robert Creeley

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