Since Goucher's low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction began in 1997, its students and graduates have published more than 90 books. Their articles and essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Village Voice, Esquire, GQ, Salon, The Huffington Post, Clackamas, Creative Nonfiction, Antioch Review, and The Daily Beast.

Their awards include two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, two Alicia Patterson fellowships, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, Atlantic Media's Michael Kelly Award, the Sidney Award for best magazine essay, the 2008 New York Book Festival Award for best historical memoir, USA News Best Book of 2007 in World History, the 2003 Southern Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, and two Associated Writing Program Intro Awards in creative nonfiction.

Book excerpts

Margaret Ahnert '99. The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide. Beaufort Books, 2007.

Mike Capuzzo '11. The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases. Gotham Books, 2010.

Lisa Davis '07. The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction, and the Mormon Church. Scribner, 2011.

Pamela Haag '08. Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses & Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules. HarperCollins, 2011.

Carrie Hagen '09. we is got him: The Kidnapping That Changed America. Overlook Press, 2011.

Jesse Holland '12. Black Men Built The Capitol: Discovering African American History In and Around Washington, D.C.Globe Pequot, 2007.

Leslie Miller '07. Let Me Eat Cake: A Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Soda, and a Pinch of Salt. Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Brian Mockenhaupt '11. The Living and the Dead: War, Friendship, and the Battles that Never End. October 2012.

Brian Mockenhaupt '11. Three Days in Gettysburg: An Intimate Tale of Lost Love and Divided Hearts at the Battle that Defined America. Byliner Inc, 2013.

Brendan O'Meara '08. Six Weeks in Saratoga: How a Three-Year-Old Filly Won the Woodward Stakes and Became Horse of the Year. State Universisty of New York Press, 2011.

Kelsey Osgood '10. How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia. Overlook, 2013.

Susan Kushner Resnick '00. Goodbye Wifes and Daughters. University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Susan Kushner Resnick '00. You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish. Globe Pequot, 2012.

Nancy Sharp '12. Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living. Books & Books Press, 2014.

Terry Greene Sterling '04. Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone. Globe Pequot Press, 2010.

Earl Swift '11. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. Mariner Books, 2011.

Jacob Wheeler '06. Between Light and Shadow. University of Nebraska Press, April 2011.