Alumnae Authors
Chapin counts many published authors among its alum community. Listed below are the names of alum authors and the books they have recently published or that will be published within the year.
Alum Authors and Their Books
Cristina Alger ’98
Girls Like Us
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2019
Alexandra Andrews ’02
Who is Maud Dixon?
Little, Brown and Company, March 2021
Allison Applebaum ’00
Stand By Me: A Guide to Modern, Meaningful Caregiving
Simon Element/Simon & Schuster, 2024
Amanda Brickell Bellows ’04
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
William Morrow, 2024
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination.
University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Kimberley La Farge Berlin ’74
Rise in Recovery: The Spiritual Path for Healing Addiction
Koehler Books, 2024
Samantha Boardman ’90
Ready for Anything: How to Build Resilience and Cope with Daily Stress
Penguin, 2021
Tonya Bolden ’76
Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023
Speak up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of “Fighting Shirley Chisholm”
National Geographic Kids, 2022
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book (Illustrated by Eric Velasquez)
Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins, 2022
Dovey Undaunted: A Black Woman Breaks Barriers in the Law, the Military, and the Ministry
Norton Young Readers, 2021
Saving Savannah
Bloomsburg YA, Jan 2020
Heather Bryant ’95
My Trans Parent
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020
Tara Burton ’09
Here in Avalon
Simon & Schuster, January 2024
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
PublicAffairs, June 2020
Seeta Changati ’85
Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
The University of Chicago Press, 2018
Flora Collins ’12
A Small Affair
Harper Collins, December 2022
Nanny Dearest
MIRA, November 2021
Ann Bellah Copeland ’57
The Palm Beach Story
Palmetto Publishing, 2021
Lucia Coppola ’79
Talking with Trees
Plants and Poetry LLC, 2022
Carolyn Davis ’92
Pride of a Nation
Random House/Ten Speed Press, 2022
Elliot Bostwick Davis ’80
America's Collection: The Art and Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State
Rizzoli Electa, 2023
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
Rizzoli Electa, 2023
Jenny Fran Davis ’13
Dykette
Henry Holt and Co., 2023
Everything Must Go
Wednesday Books, 2017
Virginia Lynch Dean ’73
Chief Crazy Snake: The Untold Story of Roy Hoffman & Chitto Harjo
Indy Pub, 2021
Beth Dennison ’67
The Co-Regulation Revolution
2023
Zail Dugal ’88
How to Develop a Career Path in a Post Pandemic World
2024
Laura Mendelson Flanagan ’91
Hardcore Vegetarian
Feral House, spring 2024
Melissa Free ’86
Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel
State University of New York Press, 2021 (Paperback to follow in July 2021)
Makenna Goodman ’03
The Shame
Milkweed Editions, 2020
Kate Greathead ’01
The Book of George
Henry Holt and Co., 2024
Mercedes de Guardiola ’13
Vermont for the Vermonters: A History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State
2023
Janie Havemeyer ’77
Motorcycle Queen
2024
Megan Hellerer ’02
Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever's Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life
Penguin Random House, 2024
Nicola Kraus ’92
The Best We Could Hope For
Amazon Publishing, 2024
Nicole Graev Lipson ’94
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Chronicle Books, 2025
Sarah Lyall ’81
Unroyal
Pushkin Industries, 2023
Gail Mallatratt ’64
Making Nowhere Somewhere
Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022
Kahdeidra Monét Martin ’99
Classroom Talk for Social Change
Teachers College Press, 2020
Joanna Massey ’86
CULTURE SHOCK: Surviving Five Generations in One Workplace
TVGuestpert Publishing, May 2020
Communicating During a Crisis: Influencing Others When the Stakes Are High
JDMA Publishing, April 2020
Neylan McBaine ’95
Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West
Shadow Mountain, Aug 2020
Elisabeth Nonas ’67
Grace Period
Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2024
Jenna Orkin ’71
How To Say "F--- Your Mother" in Chinese: A Teacher's Guide
2021
Laing Rikkers ’88
Morning Leaves: Reflections on Loss, Grief, and Connection
The Collective Book Studio, 2023
Laura Rothenberg ’99
When Poetry Visits
Codhill Press, 2023
Caroline Schley ’01
The Weight of the Sky
May 2021
Alexandra Shapiro ’82
Presumed Guilty
New Degree Press, 2021
Lynne Santy Tanner ’58
Ten Thousand Spiderwebs Bright with Dew
Kelsay Books, 2022
Lisa Thiesing ’76
A Family Is...
Aladdin, 2022
Alison Turner ’58
The Second Split Between
Catamaran Literary Reader, 2021
Anne Walker ’91
Peter Pennoyer Architects: City | Country
October 2023
Rowdy Meadow: House - Land - Art
Vendome Press, 2021
Ellen Warner ’65
The Second Half; Women Reveal Life After 50
Brandeis University Press, 2022
Cynthia Weiner ’84
A Gorgeous Excitement
Crown, 2025
Lauren Willig ’95
The Girl from Greenwich Street
Harper Collins, 205
Two Wars and a Wedding
William Morrow, 2023
The Lost Summers of Newport
William Morrow, 2022
If you have any questions, please contact Irina MacGuire, Director of Alumnae Affairs, at 212.570.4916 or imacguire@chapin.edu.