NEW BOOKS BY UCROSS ALUMNI IN 2023

The Ucross library is one of our artists' favorite places. The cozy corner room in the historic Big Red Ranch House is lined with floor-to-ceiling shelves featuring the works of Ucross poets, novelists, memoirists, nonfiction writers, playwrights, visual artists, and more. A clipboard hangs on the wall with a sheet inviting residents to check out a book for recreation or research. 

And every year, the collection expands to include the latest books by our prolific alumni. Explore this year's titles below,* and consider pre-ordering at Bookshop.org or your favorite indie bookstore.

Brendan Shay Basham, Swim Home to the Vanished (HarperCollins), June
 
Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (FlatironBooks), February
 
Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Random House), April
 
Joy Harjo, Remember (Penguin Random House), March

Brandon Hobson, The Storyteller (Scholastic), May
 
Marjorie Hudson, Indigo Field: A Novel of the South (Regal House Publishing), March
 
Mary Beth Keane, The Half Moon (Simon & Schuster), May
 
Edan Lepucki, Time’s Mouth (Counterpoint Press),August
 
Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You (Penguin Random House), February
 
Ricardo Nuila, The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Simon & Schuster), March

Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books), November

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake (Doubleday), August
 
Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Penguin Random House), July
 

*If you are looking forward to a publication this year, please email us at [email protected], so we can include the title in our round-up (and wish you a happy book birthday!).

Last January, we published our own book: The Ucross Cookbook: Cooking for Artists on a Wyoming Ranch, featuring works by Ucross alumni. The book features the most popular recipes and stories by beloved long-time chef Cindy Brooks, transcribed by author and alumna Cree LeFavour, along with food and landscape photography by alumna Martirene Alcántara. Ten acclaimed alumni contributed creative passages: author Sigrid Nunez; visual artist Munson Hunt; choreographer Ann Carlson; playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright; writer and poet (and former chef) Brendan Basham; writer, multi-disciplinary composer and performer Karma Mayet; operatic baritone Nathan Gunn; investigative journalist and novelist Suki Kim; composer and playwright Michael R. Jackson; and novelist and nonfiction writer Judith Freeman.
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Find The Ucross Cookbook at select bookstores, galleries, and boutiques, or order online here.

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