Ellen Datlow ’71 is the editor of Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror (Titan Books).
Jackie Craven, MS ’77, PhD ’88, is the author of WHISH, winner of the 2024 Press 53 Poetry Award. Her other works include Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press), Cyborg Sister (Headmistress Press) and Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn award for fabulist poetry).
Herman Lentz ’77 is the author of JEWMOROUS: A Collection of Stories Which Prove I’m Full of SCHTICK!, a coming-of age account from a Long Island Jewish perspective.
Andrew Ross ’77 is the author of The Conscripted Extremist (Boulevard Books), a novel about a man who, under threats to him and his closest friends, is forced by government agents to infiltrate extreme leftist groups. Learn more at amarcross.com. Ross is a corporate lawyer based in New York City.
Judy Alexander ’79 published her first collection of short stories, The Blue Tent: Erotic Tales From the Bible, under the pseudonym, Laria Zylber.
Diane Gottlieb ’81, MSW, MEd, MFA, is the editor of Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, SmokeLong Quarterly, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and more. Gottlieb is the Prose/CNF editor of Emerge Literary Journal and the founder and author of WomanPause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50.
WCDB alum Paul Turner ’82 narrated the audiobook Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960’s: A Love Story, by Jerry Madden.
Beth Konkoski, MA ’97, is the author of A Drawn and Papered Heart, winner of the 2023 Acacia Prize for Short Fiction from Kallisto Gaia Press. Konkoski has written fiction and poetry for the last thirty years and has been featured in literary readings in the Washington DC area.
Trent Romer, MS ’97, MBA ’03, is the author of This is Our Home, a guide for people interested in living a more sustainable lifestyle. His first book, Finding Sustainability, was published in 2021.
Mary Lannon, PhD ’02’s novel Tide Girl was named a 2023 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
Evan P. Sullivan ’12, MA ’15, PhD ’20, is the author of Constructing Disability After the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era. The book will be published in October 2024 through the University of Illinois Press’s Disability Histories series.
Troy Farkas ’17 is the author of Surrender: A Guide to Living Your Best Life in Your Twenties, inspired by Farkas’s experiences traveling the world and navigating the early stages of his career at ESPN and Spotify. Farkas currently produces sports podcasts at The Ringer.
Erik Schlimmer, MSW ’18, is the author of Deep History: Place Names of Lake Champlain. The founder and resident author of Beechwood Books and founding member of Friends of the Trans Adirondack Route, Schlimmer specializes in “place names” and has published other works including History Inside the Blue Line and High Peaks History, both chronicling the histories behind the names of sites within the Adirondack Park. When Schlimmer was a grad student at UAlbany, he launched a long-term project to decode the meaning behind all of Albany’s 800 street names.
