Faculty News

NWP faculty from left to right, back row: Inara Verzemnieks, Tisa Bryant, Melissa Febos, Sarah Minor. Front row: Bonnie Sunstein and John D’Agata.
John D’Agata, NWP 1998, is publishing a very limited-edition graphic book (drawings by him) later this Spring.

A new edition of Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence, originally from Leon Works, was reissued in September by Wave Books with an afterward from Margo Jefferson. Her newest book, Residual, a meditation on grief, longing, desire and archival research, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.

Melissa Febos will spend all of January in Paris as a visiting fellow at The American Library in Paris, who named her a “Scholar of Note.” She published essays in fall 2024 in The New York Times and LA Times Image Magazine, and has an essay in the winter issue of The Yale Review. Her new book, The Dry Season, will be released on June 3, 2025.
Sarah Minor’s third nonfiction book, Carousel, a book-length essay about seeing, is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026.