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An ever-evolving list of King’s MFA students, graduates and authors

Tamara Baluja, MFA’24, Nav Bhatia: The Heart of a Superfan. Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.

Niko Bell, MFA’23, Risk, Freedom, and the Future of Safe Sex. ECW. TBA

Sheima Benembarek, MFA’20, Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America. Penguin Random House Canada. 2023.

Gloria Blizzard, MFA’21, Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas. Dundurn, 2024.

Alec Bruce, MFA’22, The Cooperators: The People Behind the Rebirth of a Nova Scotia Movement. Pottersfield, 2024.

Lesley Buxton, MFA’16, One Strong Girl. Pottersfield, 2018.

Esmeralda Cabral, MFA’19, How to Clean a Fish: and other adventures in Portugal. University of Alberta Press, 2023.

Michaela Cavanaugh, MFA’24, Present Tense: How We Reckon With the End of the World. McClelland & Stewart (Canada) and The New Press (US), 2027.

Marilyn Carr, MFA’20, Nowhere Like This Place. Iguana Books, 2020.
How I Invented the Internet. Iguana Books, 2022.

Gregor Craigie, MFA’19, On Borrowed Time: Shaking Complacency in North America’s Seismic Zones. Goose Lane Editions, 2021.
Why Humans Build Up: The Rise of Towers, Temples, and Skyscrapers. Orca Publishing, 2022.
Radio Jet Lag. Cormorant Books, 2023.
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis. Penguin Random House, 2024.

Pauline Dakin, MFA’15, Run, Hide, Repeat. Penguin, 2017.

Moira Dann, MFA’16, Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures. Touchstone Editions, 2021.
Fat Camp Summer: Advice I Would Have Given My Parents. Sutherland House Books, 2025.

Deborah Dundas, MFA’23, On Class. Biblioasis, 2022.

Marsha Faubert, MFA’18, Wanda’s War. Goose Lane, 2023.

Amy Fish, MFA’23, One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity. Goose Lane, 2025.

Catherine Fogarty, MFA’18, Murder on the Inside. Biblioasis, 2021.
Someone You Know: An Unforgettable Collection of Canadian True Crime. HarperCollins, 2023.

Stacey May Fowles, MFA’15, The Girl in the Woods. M&S, 2018.
Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me. Penguin Random House, 2017.
Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault. Greystone Books, 2019.
Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood. Book*hug Press, 2022.

Joan Francuz, MFA’16, Press Enter to Continue: Scribes from Babylon to Silicon. 2018.

Kim Fraser, MFA’21, The Accidental Caregiver: Challenges and Triumphs of Intimate Family Caregivers. Sutherland House, (2022).

Maryanna Gabriel, MFA’22, On Earth As It Is: Walking The Camino. Pottersfield, 2023.

MJ Grant, MFA’16, A Cure for Heartache. Coronet, UK, 2019.

Stephanie Griffiths, MFA’16, Sit Still and Prosper: How a Former Money Manager Discovered the Path to Investing with Greater Clarity, Calmness, and Confidence. Bird in the Sky Press, 2018.

Sue Harper, MFA’16, Winter in the City of Light: A Search for Self in Retirement. Amazon, 2019.

Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann, MFA’21, The Nail That Sticks Out: Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community. Dundurn, 2024.

Virginia Heffernan, MFA’21, The Multi-Billion Dollar Ring of Fire: Prospectors and Politics in the Peatlands. ECW Press, 2023.

Taslim Jaffer, MFA’22, with Omar Mouallem. Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home. Book*hug Press, 2024.

Kirk Johnson, MFA’19, Some Kind of Hero. Penguin, 2021.

Kevin Kelloway, MFA’19, The Performance Equation. University of Toronto/Rotman Press.

Monica Kidd, MFA’25, The Crane. Breakwater Books, 2025.

Kim Kierans, MFA’25, Journalism for the Public Good: The Michener Awards at Fifty. Bighorn Books, 2024.

Emma Kuzmyk, MFA’25, with Addy Strickland. This Wasn’t On the Syllabus: Stories from the Front Lines of Campus Activism Against Sexualized Violence. Rising Action, 2024.

Gwen Lamont, MFA’19, The View From Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed, Ginger Press, 2024.

Nellwyn Lampert, MFA’17, Every Boy I Ever Kissed. Dundurn Press, 2019.

Nellwyn Lampert, Pamela Oakley, Christian Smith, Gillian Turnbull, ed., MFA’17, Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World. Touchwood, 2024.

Tyler LeBlanc, MFA’18, Acadian Driftwood. Goose Lane, 2020.

Lezlie Lowe, MFA’16, Nowhere to Go. Coach House, 2018.
The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War. Nimbus, 2022.

James MacDuff, MFA’24, The Illogical Adventure: A Memoir of Love and Fate. Pottersfield, 2025.

Susan MacLeod, MFA’18, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir about Nursing Home Care. Conundrum Press, 2021.

Leslie Marion, MFA’18, Easy Money: A Bankspeak Primer for Small Business. 4th Floor Press, 2020.

Jessica McDiarmid, MFA’16, Highway of Tears: The Missing, The Murdered, The Mystery. Doubleday, 2020.

Lori McKay, MFA’20, Searching for Mayflowers: The True Story of Canada’s First Quintuplets. Nimbus, 2024.

Lauren McKeon, MFA’16, F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism. Goose Lane, 2017.
No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing By The Rules. House of Anansi, 2020.
Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19. Penguin Random House, 2021.

Helena Moncrieff, MFA’16, The Fruitful City: Building Communities Around Nature’s Bounty. ECW Press, 2018.

Chris Moore, MFA’24, The Power of Guilt: Why We Feel It and Its Surprising Ability to Heal. HarperCollins (Canada) and BenBella (US), August Books (UK), 2025.

Philip Moscovitch, MFA’19, Adventures in Bubbles and Brine: What I Learned from Nova Scotia’s Masters of Fermented Foods – Craft Beer, Cider, Cheese, Sauerkraut and More. Formac Publishing, 2019.

Jason Murray, MFA’16, A Distorted Revolution: How Eric’s Trip Changed Music, Moncton and Me. Nimbus, 2017.

Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin, MFA’19, Visiting Africa: A Memoir. Demeter Press, 2021.

Robin Pacific, MFA’21, Skater Girl. Guernica Editions, 2024.

David Pate, MFA’23, Changing Our Tunes: Why National Anthems Fall Flat. Dundurn Press, 2024.

Renée Pellerin, MFA’16, Conspiracy of Hope. Goose Lane, 2018.

Jen Powley, MFA’15, Just Jen. Roseway Books, 2017.
Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People. Fernwood, 2023.

Laura Pratt, MFA’20, Heartbroken: Field Notes on a Constant Condition. Random House Canada, 2023.

Adelle Purdham, MFA’22, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself. Dundurn Press, 2024.

Andrew Reeves, MFA’16, Overrun. ECW Press, 2019.

Bonny Reichert, MFA’22, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love and Plenty. Appetite/Penguin Random House (Canada), and Ballantine/Random House (US), 2024.

Dylan Reid, MFA’21, Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Coach House Books, 2025.

Jo-Ann Roberts, MFA’23, Storm the Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to a Voting Revolution. Nimbus, 2025.

Jason Schreurs, MFA’22, Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health. Flex Your Head Press, 2023.

RC Shaw, MFA’17, Louisbourg or Bust. Pottersfield, 2018.
Captain Solitude: One Surfer’s Search for the World’s Greatest Sailor. Goose Lane, 2024.

Sharron J. Simpson, MFA’21, The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History, 2nd Edition. Harbour Publishing, 2025.

Christian Smith, MFA’17, The Scientist and the Psychic. Random House, 2021

Suzanne Stewart, MFA’16, The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons. Pottersfield, 2018.

Karen Stiller, MFA’18, The Minister’s Wife. Tynedale House, 2019.
Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life. NavPress, 2024.

William Sullivan, MFA’17, The City and the Smelter: How Against All Odds Did It Happen. First Choice Books, 2023.

Jon Tattrie, MFA’20, Peace by Chocolate. Goose Lane, 2020.

Gillian Turnbull, MFA’17, Sonic Booms: Making Music in an Oil Town. Eternal Cavalier Press, 2019.

Jennifer Thornhill Verma, MFA’19, Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboy. Nimbus, 2019.

Aaron Williams, MFA’17, Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir. Harbour Publishing, 2017.
The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era. Harbour Publishing, 2024.

Jennifer Robin Wilson, MFA’25, The Heart of Homestay: Creating Meaningful Connections When Hosting International Students. Page Two, 2025.

Gina Woolsey, MFA’15, Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner’s Journey through Disaster. Guernica Editions, 2023.