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Yale Creative Writing by Yale Students & Alumni: Home

Recommend a Book

We welcome your recommendations of published creative writing by Yale students and alumni! We will also consider purchasing these titles for the Bass Library general collection.

Recommend fiction and other creative writing by Yale students and alumni.

About The Collection

Bass Library celebrates creative writing by current Yale students and alumni. The books on this guide span a wide range of topics, genres, and class years.

While we do our best to collect creative writing by Yale student authors, we cannot collect everything. The titles shown here are a sampling, collected via librarian recommendations, publications on the Yale Alumni website, and personal knowledge of students and their work.

If you would like to see an author or title added to our collection, please fill out the recommendation form above.

Highlights

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Yale '09)

Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.