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Smithies have made their mark in literature. This list is by no means exhaustive, and many alums also have previous publications. If you have a book coming out soon and would like it to appear on the WordSmith list, please fill out our online form.
Nonfiction
A Mood, A Thought, A Feeling: Interiors
Young Huh (Young-Choo Lee Huh ’91)
Rizzoli, March 2026
Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Emily J. M. Knox (Emily Knox ’98)
Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2026
Never Enough: Living With Complex PTSD
Rebecca Morrison (Rebecca Sullivan ’89)
Oxford, January 2026
The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
Japonica Brown-Saracino ’99
Princeton University Press, January 2026
Poetry
REDWORK
Laurie Ann Guerrero (Laurie Guerrero-Garces Guerrero AC ’08)
Autumn House Press, October 2026
Singing from the Deep End
Rebecca Hart Olander, M.A.T. ’96
CavanKerry Press, February 2026
Fiction
All That Life Can Afford
Emily Everett ’09
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, April 2025
Eavesdropper
Alexandra Corman Kivowitz ’64
Rootstock Publishing, February 2025
Epic and Lovely
Mo Daviau (Monique Daviau ’98)
West Virginia University Press, September 2025
The Girls Who Grew Big
Leila Mottley ’24
Knopf, June 2025
I’ll Be Right Here
Amy Bloom, M.S.W. ’78
Random House, June 2025
The Last Bookstore on Earth
Lily Braun-Arnold ’26
Delacorte Press, January 2025
Lover Forbidden
J.R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Gallery Books, September 2025
The Moaning Lisa (A Paco and Molly Mystery)
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works, July 2025
Nothing Ever Happens Here
Seraphina Nova Glass (Seraphina Richardson, M.F.A. ’05)
Graydon House, February 2025
The Room at the End of the Hall
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
Carroll Press, August 2025
The Rowans
Beverly Cooper Pierce (Beverly Pierce ’70)
Winter Island Press, March 2025
Sight Unseen
Constance Adler ’84
ELJ Editions, January 2025
Taste the Love
Karelia Stetz-Waters ’99 and Fay Stetz-Waters
Forever, July 2025
These Summer Storms
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Ballantine Books, July 2025
Nonfiction
American Infanticide: Sexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy
Clara S. Lewis (Clara Lewis ’03)
Rutgers University Press, June 2025
Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems
Judy Kronenfeld (Judy Zahler Kronenfeld ’64)
Inlandia Books, February 2025
The Beauty World Through the Lens of a Psychiatrist
Jane B. Sofair (Jane Brown Sofair ’76)
Koehler Books, June 2025
Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
Nilanjana Dasgupta ’92
Yale University Press, January 2025
Climate Change on the Battlefield: International Military Responses to the Climate Crisis
Erin Sikorsky ’01
Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2025
Collaborative Thinking: How To Build and Sustain College Consortia
Sarah K.A. Pfatteicher (Sarah Pfatteicher ’88)
Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025
Echoes of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and Nature
Cassandra Phillips ’72 and Shirley C. Strum
Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025
Feminist Frontiers: Readings on Gender, Sexuality, and Society
Edited by Alison Dahl Crossley (Alison Crossley ’02), Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, Nancy E. Whittier
Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2025
Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
Melina Packer ’04 and Ambika Kamath
MIT Press, March 2025
Fierce Reality
Valerie Harms ’62
Magic Circle Press, September 2025
Georgetown University: An Architectural History
Stephanie J. Rufino (Stephanie Welch Rufino ’90)
Georgetown University Press, August 2025
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir
Freda Epum ’15
The Feminist Press, January 2025
Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman
Emily Gee ’96
Liverpool University Press, September 2025
Inspired Grieving: Surviving and Thriving After Losing a Child
Janet Morris AC ’20
Pakimama Publishing, October 2025
Learning to Fly: Life in the Early Feminist Revolution
Phyllis Rosser (Phyllis Fewster Rosser ’56)
July 2025
Looted: Rescuing Italy’s Stolen Treasures
Frances Vieta ’64
Red Penguin Books, January 2025
Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: Portrait of an Artist, 1755–1842
Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57
McFarland, May 2025
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage
Julie Dobrow ’81
NYU Press, November 2025
Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape
Cat Dawson ’08
MIT Press, August 2025
Mostly French: Recipes from a Kitchen in Provence (A Cookbook)
Makenna Held ’07
Simon & Schuster, April 2025
Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood
Abigail Van Slyck ’81
University of Minnesota Press, February 2025
Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s
Tanya Pearson AC ’16
Da Capo, January 2025
Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town
Ana Hebra Flaster (Ana Maria Hebra Flaster ’84)
She Writes Press, April 2025
Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland
Betsy Cornwell ’10
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, September 2025
Sanctuary School: Innovating to Empower Immigrant Youth
Chandler Patton Miranda ’07
Harvard Education Press, October 2025
Toxic Sexual Politics: Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures
Melina Packer ’04
NYU Press, January 2025
What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites
Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough ’69 and Marilynn Olson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, January 2025
You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want To Be (and Others Need)
Sabina Nawaz ’88
Simon & Schuster, March 2025
Poetry
purl
Michele Evans (Michele Peterson Evans ’94)
Finishing Line Press, February 2025
Water Guest
Caroline M. Mar (Caroline Mar ’05)
University of Wisconsin Press, April 2025
Children/Young Adult
The Cyberdillo Universe: The ABCs of Cybersecurity
Amanda Lee Keammerer (Amanda Keammerer ’09)
Self-published, November 2025
Free Bird: Flaco the Owl’s Dreams Take Flight
Christine Mott ’04, illustrated by Ofra Layla Isler
Lantern Publishing & Media, May 2025
The Kite Collector
Zoey Abbott (Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96, author and illustrator)
Kids Can Press, June 2025
How I Hacked the Moon
R. A. Dines (Rachel Dines ’07)
Macky Mountain Press, September 2025
Pedal Pusher: How One Woman’s Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World
Mary Boone; illustrated by Lisa Anchin ’04
Macmillan Publishers, February 2025
Something Happened to Our Mom: A Story About Parental Addiction
Marietta Collins (Marietta Harvey Collins ’79, M.S.W. ’83), Ann Hazzard, and Marianne Celano; illustrated by Rita Tan
American Psychological Association, October 2025
This Year, a Witch!
Zoey Abbott (Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96, author and illustrator)
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, July 2025
Young Traveler’s Journal & Activity Book
Amelia Eigerman ’21 and Anna Fader
Media Lab Books, May 2025
Fiction
Archangels of Funk
Andrea Hairston ’74
Tordotcom, May 2024
Becoming Madam Secretary
Stephanie Dray ’93
Berkley, March 2024
The Beloved
J.R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Gallery Books, April 2024
The Brownstone on E. 83rd: A Houses of Crime Mystery
Jenny Keller Dandy ’80
Level Best Books, April 2024
The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
Knopf, July 2024
Daughter of a Promise
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87
She Writes Press, April 2024
The Die
Jude Berman (Judith Paulsen Berman ’73)
SparkPress, April 2024
Kent and Katcha: Espionage, Spycraft, Romance
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works, February 2024
Lifeboat 5
Susan Hood (Susan Hood Kueffner ’76)
Simon & Schuster, October 2024
The Other Side of Nothing
Anastasia Zadeik ’85
She Writes Press, May 2024
The Scent of Bright Light
Jean K. Dudek (Jean Dexheimer Dudek ’79)
Resource Publications, January 2024
The Vacancy in Room 10
Seraphina Nova Glass (Seraphina Richardson, M.F.A. ’05)
Graydon House, April 2024
Second Night Stand
Karelia Stetz-Waters ’99 and Fay Stetz-Waters
Forever, May 2024
The Trouble with You
Ellen Feldman ’63
St. Martin’s Griffin, February 2024
The Vacancy in Room 10
Seraphina Nova Glass (Seraphina Richardson, M.F.A. ’05)
Graydon House, April 2024
The Vow
Jude Berman (Judith Paulsen Berman ’73)
She Writes Press, October 2024
White Mulberry
Rosa Kwon Easton ’86
Lake Union Publishing, December 2024
Nonfiction
Balancing ACT: Mountains, Family, Career
Betsy White (Elizabeth Herrick White ’60)
Independently published, November 2024
Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
Maggie Mertens ’09
Algonquin Books, June 2024
Big Money in Franchising: Scaling Your Enterprise in the Era of Private Equity
Alicia Miller (Alicia Smith Miller ’92)
Figure 1 Publishing, March 2024
BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories
Jannah Handy ’08 and Kiyanna Stewart, with foreword by Spike Lee
Black Dog & Leventhal, October 2024
Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair
Lisa Young Larance ’91
University of California Press, August 2024
The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Crisis
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman ’05 and Josephine Ferorelli
Rowman & Littlefield, February 2024
Divine Light: The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300–1300 AD
Wendy A. Stein (Wendy Stein ’69)
Hirmer Verlag Publishers, October 2024
Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey Into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Sadie Dingfelder ’01
Little, Brown Spark, June 2024
Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
Deborah Stewart (Deborah Clark Stewart ’65), Lisa Marchiano, and Joseph Lee
Sounds True, November 2024
Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction
Alison Dahl Crossley (Alison Crossley ’02)
Routledge, August 2024
Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller ’05 and Luci Marzola
Rutgers University Press, December 2024
Is the Grass Always Greener? Life With Goats, Gardens, and Gourmet Cheese
Catherine Renzi (Catherine Cosentino Renzi ’86) and Al Renzi
Salt Water Media, July 2024
Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle ’59
Green Fire Press, March 2024
Mending Education: Finding Hope, Creativity, and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma
Karen Gross (Karen Abelmann Gross ’74) and Edward K.S. Wang
Teachers College Press, September 2024
New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States
Emily Mitchell-Eaton ’06
University of Georgia Press, November 2024
Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
Elizabeth W. Williams ’08
Duke University Press, January 2024
Queerly Connected: A Spouse’s First-Year Journey Navigating Love & Identity in Transition
Nuranissa Jones ’99
Independently published, June 2024
Returning Home to Our Bodies: Practices for Connecting Somatics, Nature, and Social Change
Abigail Rose Clarke (Abigail Clarke AC ’12)
North Atlantic Books, January 2024
Sacred Refuge: Finding Unexpected Shelter in Your Crisis
Lynne Rienstra (Lynne Norton Rienstra ’81)
Kregel Publications, October 2024
Unpacking Privilege in the Elementary Classroom: A Guide to Race and Inequity for White Teachers
Jacquelynne Boivin ’14 and Kevin McGowan
Eye on Education, December 2024
Working Together: Practicing the Science of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Mikki Hebl ’91 and Eden King
Oxford University Press, March 2024
Working With Parents in Child Psychotherapy
Elisa Bronfman ’82
Guilford Press, November 2024
You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies
Desiree Akhavan ’07
Random House, August 2024
Poetry
And Shatter Me With Dawn!
Quinn Collard ’08
Read or Green Books, September 2024
Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms
Joan Kwon Glass (Joan Prusky Glass ’98, M.A.T. ’99)
Perugia Press, September 2024
Morpho Didius: Palindromic Poetry
Rachel Prizant Kotok ’94
Armature Publishing, February 2024
Softly Undercover
Hanae Jonas ’14
The Ohio State University Press, February 2024
The Stoop and the Steeple
Nancy L. Meyer (Nancy Locke Meyer ’64)
Frog on the Moon, September 2024
Unalone
Jessica Jacobs ’02
Four Way Books, March 2024
woke up no light
Leila Mottley ’24
Knopf, April 2024
Children/Young Adult
Apples for Georgia
Myrrh Brooks AC ’22
Penny Bun Press, November 2024
Julia Child: A Little Golden Book Biography
Kari Allen (Kari Diedrich Allen ’02); illustrated by Joanie Stone
Little Golden Book, November 2024
A Little Boy Who Likes Flowers Too
Jazlín Ladriere ’23
Independently published, November 2024
Maddie and Mabel: Ready for Snow
Kari Allen (Kari Diederich Allen ’02)
Kind World Publishing, November 2024
Piano Wants to Play
Colleen Kong-Savage ’94
Page Street, March 2024
Fiction
Behind the Scenes
Karelia Stetz-Waters ’99
Forever, January 2023
The Fog Ladies: Date With Death
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2023
How to Be Sane: A Groundbreaking Mental Wellness Guide from a Gorgeous Female Doctor
Emily Altman ’00
Andrews McNeel Publishing, November 2023
Killingly: A Novel
Katharine Beutner ’03
Soho Press, June 2023
Knockout
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon, August 2023
The Long March Home: A World War II Novel of the Pacific
Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee ’92
Revell, May 2023
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger ’12
Bywater Books, May 2023
A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
Patricia Bernstein (Patricia Hoffman Bernstein ’66)
History Through Fiction, March 2023
One Knife, One Fork, One Spoon
Patty Friedmann ’68
Atmosphere Press, September 2023
The Vanishing Hour
Seraphina Nova Glass (Seraphina Richardson, MFA ’05)
Graydon House, May 2023
Nonfiction
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
Amanda Kennell ’06
University of Hawaii Press, July 2023
Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
Peggy Gillespie (Peggy Elman Gillespie ’69)
Skinner House Books, May 2023
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Alexa Griffith Winton ’90 and Susan Brown, eds.
Yale University Press, June 2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Judith Tick ’64
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2023
Changing the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education
Nancy Weiss Malkiel ’65
Princeton University Press, November 2023
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
Rebecca Clarren ’97
Viking, October 2023
Furnishing the White House: The Decorative Arts Collection
Melissa Naulin ’97, Betty Monkman, William Allman, and Lydia Tederick
The White House Historical Association, September 2023
The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
Durreen Shahnaz ’89
Broadleaf Books, June 2023
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen ’07
Profile Books, November 2023
The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Jane M. Spinak ’74
NYU Press, August 2023
The French Chef Cookbook
Julia Child (Julia McWilliams Child ’34)
Knopf, November 2023
The Guide to Earned Media: How to Use PR Strategies to Enhance Your Brand
Annie Pace Scranton ’02
Kogan Page, August 2023
If We Were Kin: Race, Identification, and Intimate Political Appeals
Lisa Beard ’03
Oxford University Press, March 2023
Impact Investing for a Sustainable Planet: Insights from EcoEnterprises Fund
Tammy E. Newmark ’84 and Michele A. Pena
Routledge, December 2023
Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in “Postracial” America
Penelope Ingram ’92
University Press of Mississippi, June 2023
Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
Amanda L. Izzo ’99 and Benjamin Looker, eds.
University of Missouri Press, March 2023
Life B: Overcoming Double Depression
Bethanne Patrick (Bethanne Kelly Patrick ’85)
Counterpoint, May 2023
Literacy Moves Outdoors: Learning Approaches for Any Environment
Valerie Bang-Jensen (Valerie Fischer Bang-Jensen ’77)
Heinemann, April 2023
Madame Fromage’s Adventures in Cheese
Tenaya Darlington ’94
Workman, September 2023
The Nature of Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 5
Lisa Twaronite Sone ’87 and Robert Weis, eds.
Independently published, May 2023
Oregon Wine + Food: The Cookbook
Danielle Centoni ’97 and Kerry Newberry
Figure 1 Publishing, May 2023
Pandemic Teaching: Notes from the Classroom
Jennifer Smith ’91
Independently published, February 2023
Philadelphia’s Strawbridge & Clothier, From Our Family to Yours
Meg Butterworth (Margaret Strawbridge Butterworth ’97)
The History Press, May 2023
The Princess Guide to Rome
Belinda Darcey AC ’00
Princess Guide Books, January 2023
The Princess Guide to Venice
Belinda Darcey AC ’00
Princess Guide Books, February 2023
Radiant Wildheart: A Guide to Awaken Your Inner Artist and Live Your Creative Mission
Shereen Sun (Shereen Choudhury ’11)
Hay House, March 2023
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Julie Avril Minich ’99
Duke University Press, October 2023
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
Kiki Smith ’71
Rizzoli Electa, September 2023
A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving
Blair Sorrel ’77
Atmosphere Press, August 2023
Slow Wine USA Guide 2024: A Year in the Life of the Vineyards and Wines of the USA
Deborah Parker Wong and Pam Strayer ’77
Slow Food Promozione, November 2023
Speak for Me, Mom: A Murder, a Trial, and a Mother’s Enduring Love
Christine Wolf (Christine Dresp, MSW ’84)
Androscoggin Press, October 2023
Superlative City: The MOST, the BIGGEST, the FIRST, the OLDEST, and the BEST of NEW YORK in 52 PICTURES
Cynthia M. Pigott (Cynthia Moekle Pigott ’81)
Scout’s Press, July 2023
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Susan Goldin-Meadow ’71
Basic Books, June 2023
Woman in Action: Autobiography of a Global African Feminist
Filomina Steady ’65
Mereo Books, January 2023
Poetry
A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness
Angela Acosta ’17
Independently published, September 2023
The Body Problem
Margaret Wack ’15
Orison Books, March 2023
The Body’s Owner Speaks
Leo Smith ’22
Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, July 2023
Diving at the Lip of the Water
Karen Poppy (Karen Kramer Poppy ’98)
Beltway Editions, May 2023
Children/Young Adult
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Ariel Aberg-Riger ’03
Balzer + Bray, May 2023
April & Mae and the Animal Shelter
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
April & Mae and the Movie Night
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
April & Mae and the Sleepover
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
Banana
Zoey Abbott ’96
Tundra Books, March 2023
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings
Joy Hakim (Joy Frisch Hakim ’51)
MITeen Press, September 2023
The Dog Snatcher: Guardians of Time, Book 1
Phyllis Wheeler (Phyllis Hough Wheeler ’73)
Independently published, September 2023
Letters to My Grandfather
Joanna Maneckji ’94 (author and illustrator)
Switow Media and Sunny Acres, November 2023
Maddie and Mabel Know They Can
Kari Allen (Kari Diederich Allen ’02); illustrated by Tatjana Mai-Wyss
Kind World Publishing, June 2023
Molly’s Tuxedo
Vicki Johnson ’87; illustrated by Gillian Reid
Little Bee Books, June 2023
Secret of the Lost Dragons: Guardians of Time, Book 2
Phyllis Wheeler (Phyllis Hough Wheeler ’73)
Independently published, November 2023
Tasiawelanu and the Healing Blanket
Laurah Morningstar (Laurah Winder AC ’04); illustrated by Larysa Fedorchenko
Honey Flower, June 2023
Whose Prints?
Kari Allen (Kari Diederich Allen ’02); illustrated by Kim Smith
Little Simon, September 2023
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