Alumni Authors

Second Chance Hiring
Second Chance Hiring
FEATURED BOOK OF THE MONTH
Second Chance Hiring
Mitch Pearlstein ’70
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
The American prison system holds more than a million people each year. Upon their release from incarceration, they are routinely barred from employment. Addressing both policy and socio-cultural realities, Pearlstein's book makes the case ― both economically and ethically ― for hiring formerly imprisoned individuals, affording them a chance for re-integration into the workforce and society as well.
      

Our alumni are prolific writers and publish works covering a wide variety of disciplines. Please note this web page only includes books published within the last three years and in no way constitutes a complete listing of Binghamton University alumni authors. If you'd like to have your book listed here, email alumni@binghamton.edu.   

  • Nadeem Ahmad ’95 wrote Become an Innovation Navigator: Secrets to Translating the Hype of Emerging Technology into Commercial Reality (Atlas Elite Publishing Partners, 2023), providing detailed guidance on how to build an innovation practice within your organization.
  • Cathy Andorfer '95 wrote her first book The Art of Excellence: Build a Career as a Rockstar Medical Science Liaison and Beyond (Beach House Innovations, 2024), a practical and inspirational guide for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, especially those navigating careers in medical affairs.
  • Carol Dean Archer '87 wrote To Kilimanjaro From Jeffery Town and Cities In Between (2023), which highlights some of her Binghamton student experiences, particularly as Caribbean Students' Association president. Faculty member Carol Boyce Davies wrote the book's forward.
  • Dara Barnat ’00 wrote Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry (University Of Iowa Press, 2023), a genealogy of Jewish American poets in dialogue with Whitman, and with each other, revealing how the lineage of Jewish American poets responding to Whitman extends far beyond the likes of Allen Ginsberg.
  • Sara Stolberg Berkowicz '85 published True Value: What Financial Advisors Should Know About Business Valuation (Amazon, 2025), a book that shows financial planners why they should learn about strategic uses of business valuation to retain clients and build trust. 
  • David Berkowitz '00 wrote The Non-Obvious Guide to Using AI for Marketing: How to Harness the Transformative Power of AI (Ideapress Publishing, 2025), a book with actionable insights and practical strategies that enhance marketing efforts. 
  • Perry Binder '81 published Innovative College Teaching: Tips & Insights from 14 Master Teachers (Independent, 2024) and Classroom LIGHTBULBS for College Professors: 10 Easy Ways to Reignite Your Passion for Teaching (Independent, 2023). 
  • Virginia Blanton, MA ’91, PhD ’98, published a two-volume edition and study, Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I and II (Brepols, 2023 and 2024).
  • Michael Blumenthal '69 published Correcting the World: Poems Selected & New 1980-2024 (Ravenna Press, 2024).
  • Deborah Buffton, MA ’81, is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Peace History (Oxford University Press, 2023), a comprehensive analysis of peace history from antiquity to the present day.
  • R.J. Cadmus '83 wrote Mob Guy (Independently published, 2024), a story of camaraderie, greed, love, malice, honor, loss, loyalty, sacrifice and redemption.
  • Shantay Carter '00 wrote Love, Lift, Lead: A Guide to Empower Young Women and Teenagers to Transform Pain into Power (Thanx A Mills, LLC, 2024), a powerful exploration of overcoming obstacles and building resilience in the face of adversity.
  • Jennifer Case, PhD '14, wrote We Are Animals (Trinity University Press, 2024), a book that examines key moments in the author's life as a 21st-century woman and child-bearing mammal, and the conflicts between these two identities.
  • Aaron Clayton, PhD '18, published Dead, White and Blue: The Zombie and American National Identity (McFarland, 2023), a book that advances horror scholarship by placing stories within a long tradition of mythologizing U.S. history.
  • Joel G. Cohn '67 wrote A Critical Examination of the Recent Evolution of B2B Sales (IGI Global, 2024), designed for academic scholars seeking to understand shifts in B2B selling brought about by the global pandemic.
  • Paul M. Collins, MA ’03, PhD ’05, is co-author of Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, 1st edition (Stanford University Press, 2023), a disturbing view of the extent to which race and gender bias continue to live on, even at the highest level of American legal power.
  • Anthony Conta '08, MA '09, wrote The Art and Science of UX Design (Pearson, 2023), which teaches readers to do user experience design, a growing field in which practitioners craft the look and feel of the digital experiences society comes into contact with daily.
  • Tristan Cossaro '19 wrote the novel The Serpent Shepherd: Tales From Velgarth (Independently Published, 2024), a tale of camaraderie, vengeance, and the pursuit of redemption.
  • Alia Dastagir '05 wrote To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online (Crown, 2025), a look at what women experience during online abuse, as well as how they cope and make meaning out of violence.
  • Stephanie DeCarolis ’06 wrote The Wives of Hawthorn Lane (Penguin Random House, 2025), a murder mystery that takes place in a seemingly perfect place to live, a tree-lined street with impressive homes.
  • Geraldin Noemis Diaz '19 wrote Dreams Don't Cost A Thing (Nextone, 2023), in which she shares deeply personal anecdotes surrounding how she found purpose and meaning amid hardship. 
  • Dante Di Stefano '01, MA '04, MAT '06, PhD '15, published the book-length poem Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).
  • Marjorie Feld '93 published her third book, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (NYU Press, 2024). The book was honored by National Public Radio. 
  • Glenn Fiedelholtz, MAT '79, wrote Operation Taiwan: Project Quantum (Independently published, 2025), a geopolitical cyber-thriller that envisions a near-future confrontation between the United States, China and allied powers over Taiwan’s sovereignty.
  • Marcia Naomi (Fisch) Berger '66 is the author of The Bipolar Therapist: A Journey from Madness to Love and Meaning (Bitachon Press, 2024), a book intended to help decrease stigma and increase understanding, compassion and respect for people with mental illness.
  • Lisa Rowe Fraustino, PhD '93, published The Velveteen Rabbit at 100 (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), a book of essays that more than doubles the amount of serious scholarship on Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit.
  • Mark Freeman '77 wrote Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (Routledge, 2024) and co-edited The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics (Oxford, 2023).
  • Julia Furlipa, MS '19, wrote The 7+ Lifestyle (Bowker Publishing Services, 2024), a tailored coaching guide exploring the relationship between pH levels, weight loss, diseases and specific cancers, offering plant-based nutrition as a solution. 
  • Lauren "L.A." Garnett '17 published The Spiraling: Book One of the Tunsealiorian Saga (2024), a book that follows the lives of Tamora, Marin and Racynth as they navigate a world of elemental magic on the brink of rebellion.
  • Christine Gelineau, MA '90, PhD '94, wrote Almanac: A Murmuration (Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press, 2025), a memoir charting one person's journey into the inner and external worlds that will resonate with readers dealing with life-changing times.
  • Santosh Ghosh, PhD ’76, wrote Deep Time: Earth’s Geologic Journey from Eternity to Homo Sapiens (Earth's Journey Storyworks, 2025), a narrative tracing our planet’s 4.6-billion-year journey, from its fiery beginnings to the emergence of humans.
  • David M. Gold '72 wrote Democracy and the Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections in the Antebellum South (University of South Carolina Press, 2025), the first comprehensive exploration of the advent of this often-controversial democratic reform in the 19th-century American South.
  • Forrest Greenslade '63 wrote Animal Farm: The Rest of the Story (Newman Springs, 2025).
  • Jordan Gruber ’81, MA ’83, co-authored Microdosing for Health, Healing and Enhanced Performance (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2025) about a method that is becoming a more popular approach to a wide range of health conditions and enhanced performance. 
  • Robert Guzikowski '74 wrote Unwordly (Uncollected Press, 2024), a book about his experience of aphasia and disability that resulted from viral encephalitis 30 years ago.
  • Brian Hackett ’87 published his debut novel, Leaving Naples (Solstice Publishing, 2025), a story about a U.S. Navy officer whose dream of living in Italy unravels after his wife gets involved in a local crime ring and his family falls apart.
  • Ellen (Popolizio) Hernandez ’85, MAT ’87, published the third edition of her textbook Writing for All (Cognella, Inc., 2024). She is a retired English professor and freelance writer. 
  • Mala Hoffman '82 co-wrote (with her daughter Lucy Moran) Dispelling the Shadow: Activities Exploring Life and Death with Young People (Routledge, 2025), a book designed to support parents, teachers and caretakers in their efforts to lead the children in their lives to an understanding of a challenging topic.
  • Sunny Hostin '90, LLD '18, wrote Biography and Ancestral Slave Holding Saga (Newbie Press, 2024), a biography of the esteemed American lawyer, journalist, author and television host.
  • Erin Howe ’03 wrote Caring for Aging Loved Ones: A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating the Healthcare System While Avoiding Caregiver Burnout (independently published, 2023). The book shares a healthcare provider’s view of how to deal with the challenging landscape of determining, locating and arranging the appropriate level of care.
  • Barbara Josselsohn '81 published Secrets of the Italian Island (Bookouture, 2023), set partially in New York in 2019 and partially on an Italian island in 1943. It is her first historical novel and sixth novel overall. 
  • Heather Kahan '86 and John Kahan '85 published This Is Your World Too (Palmetto Publishing, 2025), a heartfelt exploration of the world through the lens of parents and grandparents who have seen their family's lives filled with wonder, love, and heartache. 
  • Sharon Kahn '81 wrote They Validate Your Parking, Not Your Feelings: A schnook’s guide to cataracts (The Authors Point, 2025). Kahn, a psychologist, takes it upon herself to explain the ways of surgeons to humans.
  • Pauline Kaldas, PhD ’98, is the author of The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel (University of Arkansas Press, 2023), a multi-generational family saga that moves from Egypt to America.
  • Jesse Kalfel ’71, MS ’76, wrote Paper Ghosts: A Fenn Cooper Novel (Fulton Books, 2023), a gripping fictional tale that follows Fenn Cooper, a journalist who uncovers a desperate murder plot and needs a way to stop the culprit before the next targets -- two of his new friends -- wind up dead.

  • Erela Katz Rappaport ’81 wrote Breathe Easy, Sleep Deep (Independently published, 2025), a book for anyone who wants to understand sleep and sleep apnea, and how effective treatment can restore healthy sleep and protect brain function.

  • Marcie Katz-Tucker ’10 produced a poetry book on the Jewish experience titled You Just Woke the Lions (Independently published, 2025).
  • Lenard Kaye '72 co-authored the second edition of A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging: Staying Smart, Strong, and Active (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), a book that presents a positive outlook on aging, viewing it as an opportunity for continued growth, vitality, and personal agency.
  • Julia Maeve Huntley Kim '66 wrote A First for Ivy Pritchard (Wild Rose Press, 2024), a literary romance with believable characters, realistic birds and birding locations, touching stories and a bit of spice.
  • Elizabeth Kinchen ’77 published her memoir, Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal (She Writes Press, 2023). The book discusses the harm done when an older man in a position of power convinces a child that sex with him is alright because he loves her.
  • Adam Knight, MA ’07, published a memoir, Made of Iron (The Wordsmithy, 2024). It’s the story of Holocaust survivor Dina Jacobson, who lived much of her life in Elmira, N.Y., and dedicated herself to educating young people.
  • Janet Krauthamer '00 published Body Detective (Barefoot Books, 2024), a STEAM picture book that introduces interoception: a human body function that helps a person understand what’s going on inside their body.
  • Kate Kretz '87 wrote Art From Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice (University of Chicago Press, 2024), a book focused solely on the development of a strong, unique identity as an artist.
  • Todd Landau '76 released his debut novel, Counting on Freedom (Independently published, 2024), a three-part work of historical fiction set during the U.S. Civil War.
  • Kerstin Lange '90, MA '93, wrote Phantom Border: A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany (Columbia University Press, 2024). After three decades of living abroad, Lange used the 1,400-kilometer-long Green Belt as a prism to investigate the human, social, and ecological stories surrounding the former borderland. 
  • Roger Levine '74 wrote The Borscht-Meister of Babi Yar (Natural Selections, 2024), a historical fiction novel about Ukraine stretching from the Holocaust to the current war.
  • Amy Lorowitz '82 published her debut novel Summer Husband (She Writes Press, 2026), which looks at what happens at a sleepaway camp when the campers aren't watching.
  • Guru Madhavan, MBA ’07, PhD ’09, wrote Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), which offers a refreshing vision for readers of all backgrounds to build a better future.
  • Michael J.Z. Mannheimer '91 wrote The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing (University of Michigan Press, 2023), which calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  • Rafe Martin ’66 published a children's book, The Brave Little Parrot (Wisdom Publications 2023), a recreation of a 2,500-year-old Buddhist tale of vision, courage, and compassion. His work for adults, A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas (Sumeru Books, 2023) uses folklore, myth, legend and Zen koans to explore Zen practice as a practical and tested path to help us mature fully.
  • Adam McKible '84 wrote Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2024). According to McKible's book, the Post used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship and humanity. 
  • Barbara Boehm Miller '93 wrote When You See Her (Red Adept Publishing, 2023), her first novel. 
  • Glenn Erick Miller, MA '98, wrote Goon (Peasantry Press, 2025), a young adult novel about a foster child who causes a devastating accident and is sentenced to an experimental juvenile detention center in rural Florida where he wrestles with abandonment, a Category 3 hurricane and his own crushing guilt.
  • Yehoshua November '01 published his third poetry collection The Concealment of Endless Light (Orison Book, 2024), which extends the marriage of mysticism and everyday life that has his strength as a poet. 
  • Mike O'Connell '03, MPA '05, wrote From Box Scores to Test Scores: Turning gameday stats into everyday math skills (BookBaby, 2024). This is O'Connell's third book and first about math, the subject he teaches for Loudoun County (Va.) Public Schools.
  • Ronald Palmer, PhD '96, wrote Brother Nervosa (Barrow Street Press, 2024), selected by Kirkus Reviews as a Top 100 Books of 2024.
  • Irene Papoulis '76 published The Essays Only You Can Write (Broadview Press, 2023). She has been teaching writing at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., for the past 27 years.
  • Mitch Pearlstein ’70 wrote Second Chance Hiring: An Economic and Ethical Necessity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), a book that makes the case for hiring formerly imprisoned individuals, affording them a chance for re-integration into the workforce and society as well. 
  • Angie Pelekidis, MA '08, published the novel Unlucky Mel (Cornell University Press, 2024), a funny, feminist look at revenge within academia, set specifically in Binghamton.
  • Shari Lawrence Pfleeger '70, LHD '00, with Charles Pfleeger and Lizzie Coles-Kemp, published Security in Computing, 6th edition (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2023), a one-stop, primary text for everyone teaching, learning and practicing information cybersecurity. She also published Simple Machines (Politics and Prose, 2025), her second collection of poetry in collaboration with photographer Jannett Klinke.
  • John David Ragan '74 is publishing his third book Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers In Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2025) about three French travelers in Egypt connected to a radical Utopian Socialist movement of students and working class people in Paris in the 1830s.
  • Steven Ratiner '73 published Grief's Apostrophe (Beltway Editions, 2025), a poetry collection that touches on personal loss, societal grief and the way we use language and art to take the first steps toward healing.
  • Chad Reyes '03 and Matt Stern '03 collaborated on the book Awaken Your Potential: 10 Ways to Unlock Greatness (Forefront Books, 2024), a virtual mentor to help people fulfill their maximum potential, become leaders and then to turn around and help others to fulfill their own potential.
  • Mark A. Rieder '95 wrote Reminiscences of a Bond Operator: A Guide to Investing in Corporate Debt (Independently Published, 2024). He has dedicated more than two decades to managing large corporate bond portfolios, and his book aims to provide a valuable resource for investors, aspiring professionals, educators, and industry veterans.
  • Lori (Rogoff) Rhodes '94 co-wrote Equitable School Scheduling (Corwin Press, 2024), a practical and thoughtful guide that demonstrates how school and district scheduling teams can become architects of equity.
  • David Rosch ’96, with Lori E. Kniffin and Kathy L. Guthrie, published Introduction to Research in Leadership (Information Age Publishing, 2023), which examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research in the area of leadership.
  • Lee B. Salz '92 wrote The First Meeting Differentiator (HarperCollins, 2025), a book providing a framework for transforming your first meetings into high-impact, client-centric consultations that differentiate you and lay the foundation to win more deals.
  • Lynn A. Schaefer ’91 is co-author of Working with the Brain in Psychology: Considering Careers in Neuropsychology (Routledge, 2023).
  • Robert Searns '68 wrote Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes (Island Press, 2023), a book that makes a case for walking infrastructure that serves a more diverse array of people. 
  • Gary Shapiro '77 wrote Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes (William Morrow, 2024), a behind-the-scenes look at the development of innovative technology and business strategies. He is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.
  • Michael Siglag '80 edited and wrote a chapter for Innovative Treatment Approaches in Forensic and Correctional Settings (Routledge, 2024).
  • Gina Sipley '04 wrote Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice (Bristol University Press, 2024), a book that challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture.
  • Andrew Siskind '75 wrote On the Edge: An Everyday Doctor’s Adventures in Disaster Medicine (Independently published, 2025), a book about his adventures during trips treating patients at earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes and more.
  • Kathleen Small '77 published her fifth book, Letters from Shadow Oaks (Carousel Acres Publishing, 2025), a novel about three generations of women connected by a love of art.
  • John Smelcer, PhD ’11, published The Beast in the Dark (Epicenter Press, 2025), his 65th book. It is a novel based on oral history from his Alaskan tribe.
  • Barbara Snedecor, PhD ’11, published Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens (University of Missouri Press, 2023), a book inviting readers to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens, wife of Mark Twain.
  • Saul Traiger '77 wrote Twilight Zone Reflections: An Introduction to the Philosophical Imagination (Lever Press, 2024), the first book of its kind to explore the entirety of The Twilight Zone (1959-64) as a series.
  • Susan Trevizo '72 (as Sonya Trevizo) wrote her coming-of-age memoir The Education of a Musician's Daughter (Austin Macauley, 2025). The book includes several chapters about SUNY Binghamton 1967-72.
  • Arthur Turfa, MA '96, published his first short story collection Epiphanies (Alien Buddha Press, 2024). He has also written history, and his poetry has been published in several journals.
  • Ron Turker ’83 published his debut novel The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious (6Dog Press, 2023), which tells what happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital.
  • Leah Umansky ’02 produced a third poetry collection, Of Tyrant (Word Works, 2024). Her poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets' poem a day, Pleiades, Rhino and elsewhere.
  • Lee Upton, PhD '86, is the author of Tabitha, Get Up (Sagging Meniscus, 2024), a novel about a lonely biographer who attempts to write two biographies simultaneously to boost her reputation and pay her rent.
  • Dennis Vercolen ’74 wrote Arlington (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024), a love story set against the backdrop of World War II.
  • Tony Villecco ’98 wrote Voices of Opera (McFarland, 2025), the first book of its kind which includes interviews with 22 famous opera stars whose careers began in the late 1940s through the 1970s. 
  • Andy Vodopia '81 wrote Fly Like Chi! (Exit 56 Publishing, 2024), which tells the remarkable true story of Malachi Coleman who was abandoned at 5 years old, entered the foster care system, and eventually became a star football player.
  • Richard Walter '65 wrote Deadpan (Heresy Press, 2024), a satirical novel that combines no-holds-barred comedy with nuanced regard for history and human motivation.
  • Jeffrey Yip '01 published a second edition of Surfing Through New York Transit Exams: Your Guide to NYC Civil Service (2023). The book contains two full-length exams and goes in-depth about the citywide hiring pools for candidates interested in administrative positions with the City of New York.
  • Laura Eustache Zamor '12 wrote The Whole Mother Method: How to Call Back Your Voice from the Pain of C-section Birth Trauma and Renew Your Spiritual Power (Resilient Writer's Project, 2024), a book intended to help women see themselves with compassion and kindness, while demystifying some of the most supportive Naturopathic forms of care for recovery.
  • Lenora (Maglione) Ziegler '94 wrote The Teen Breakup Survival Guide (New Harbinger, 2024), which walks readers through all stages of a breakup and offers evidence-based skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and neuroscience.