Alumni Authors

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 five years and in no way constitutes a complete listing of Binghamton University alumni authors. If you'd like to have your book listed here, contact us at alumni@binghamton.edu.

  • Diana Abu-Jaber, PhD '86, wrote Fencing with the King (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), a tale of adventure, suspense and intrigue.
  • 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.
  • Douglas Ambrose, PhD '91, wrote Your Obedient Servant: The Letters of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (Fenimore Art Museum, 2019), based on the museum's documents pertaining to the life and death of Alexander Hamilton.
  • Dora Apel '74 published Calling Memory into Place (Rutgers University Press, 2020). Because memory is key to social justice, this book looks at the ways that memorials, photographs, artworks and autobiographies fuel a process of “unforgetting.”
  • Marc Arginteanu '89 wrote Azazel’s Public House (Solstice, 2022). The concepts central to the book, of physical and psychic violations of one’s brain, align with the author's professional training as a neurosurgeon.
  • 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.
  • Elan Barnehama '78 wrote Escape Route (Running Wild Press, 2022), a novel told by a first-generation son of Holocaust survivors who becomes obsessed with the Vietnam War.
  • Lynn Becker '83 published the picture book, Monsters in the Briny (Sleeping Bear Press, 2022). The book is set to the tune of "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor" as a ship's crew contends with a coterie of mythical sea creatures demanding comfort and attention.
  • Bruce Benderson '69 — novelist, essayist and translator — released the complete collection of his short fiction, Urban Gothic (Itna Press, 2022). The 675-page book contains every story he has written and published over his 50-year career and includes 21 new texts.
  • Thomas Besom, MA '87, PhD '00, wrote Child of the Snows (Golden Antelope Press, 2021), which brings to life the world of a 16th century Aymara community, a small part of the Inca empire.
  • Perry Binder '81 published Classroom LIGHTBULBS for College Professors: 10 Easy Ways to Reignite Your Passion for Teaching (Independent, 2023).  The book features easy-to-replicate teaching tips and a method for professors to get excited before walking into a classroom. 
  • Caroline Bobick '09 wrote Censored (Amazon.com Services LLC, 2020), a book inspired by true stories of families around the world today, and considered essential reading for those wishing to understand the implications of eroding human rights.
  • Mira Brancu '96 co-wrote Millennials' Guide to Workplace Politics (Winding Pathway Books, 2021), a book to help millennials become successful, respected and effective managers and leaders.
  • 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.
  • Tina Chang '91 is the author of Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019), which confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States. She is director of creative writing at Binghamton University.
  • 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.
  • Stephen Corey '71, MA '73, published As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2021 (White Pine Press, 2022).
  • Rebecca (Dalton) Cassidy ‘97 wrote Working with Women: Successful Tips for Working Together (New Degree Press, 2021), one of the few resources offering research-based reasons for women's stereotypical behavior at work, tips for how to succeed and stories that lift women up. 
  • Stephanie DeCarolis '06 wrote The Guilty Husband (Harper Collins/HQ Stories, 2021), a novel about a man who seems to have the perfect marriage but draws attention when the intern he was having an affair with is found dead.
  • Jeana DelRosso '92 published her fifth book, Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry and the Future of Faith. co-edited with Leigh Eicke and Ana Kothe (Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press, 2021). This collection of poetry, prose and fiction explores how third- and fourth-wave feminists come to terms with Catholicism in the 21st century.
  • Lisa DeSiro '92 published the poetry collection Simple as a Sonnet (Kelsay Books, 2021).
  • 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. She also wrote Reroute: Post Grad Guide to Success - Physically, Mentally and Financially (New Degree Press, 2020), a guide to help new college graduates discover they are capable of everything they want to achieve. 
  • Dante Di Stefano '01, MA '04, MAT '06, PhD '15, published the book-length poem Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).
  • Scott M. Eckers '02, MSEd '04, wrote Hidden History of East Meadow (The History Press, 2022), which discusses fascinating and long-forgotten moments in the history of this Long Island hamlet.
  • Barbara Eggleston, MSEd ’80, published And of a Sound Mind - 45 Tips and Teachings on How to Ease Depression (BookBaby, 2022). She was a special education teacher most of her career before returning to school for her license in social work.
  • Jakob Feinig, PhD ’15, wrote Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society (Stanford University Press, 2022). Feinig is an assistant professor of human development at Binghamton University.
  • Jerry Finkelstein '75 wrote Where Are Your (K)nots?: Getting Unstuck in Your Life (BookBaby, 2022), a book that explores how the emotional knots we develop and carry with us through our lives prevent us from living our lives fully.
  • Marcia Naomi (Fisch) Berger '66 is the author of Marriage Minded: An A to Z Dating Guide for Lasting Love (She Writes Press, 2021).  
  • Lori Duffy Foster, MA '00, wrote A Dead Man's Eyes: A Lisa Jamison Mystery (Level Best Books, 2021), a book where the hero risks her life and the lives of her daughter and their closest friend on a dangerous quest for answers.
  • 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 Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill, 2021), a book that explores the experience of dementia as it transpired during the course of the final 12 years of his mother's life, from the time of her diagnosis until her death at age 93.
  • Adam J. Gellings, PhD ’19, published his debut poetry collection Little Palace (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2022), a reminder of the truths of human connection, the escapism feel of travel and the universal nature of art.
  • Annette (Gennaro) Marinaccio '81 wrote Your Soul Focus: You Believe in the Afterlife, Don't You? (Inphinite Lumen LLC, 2021), a spiritual book written in a practical way that unfolds her journey and what she has learned through relatives on the other side.
  • Maria Giura, PhD '06, is the author of Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House, 2019); she wrote the first draft of this book for her creative dissertation at Binghamton.
  • Natalie Elisha Gold '09 wrote the children's book For I Am Ruth: A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg (independently published, 2020).
  • Robert Steven Goldstein ’73 wrote the literary fiction book Cat's Whisker (Koehler Books, 2021).  It chronicles the life of Samuel Baron, an engineer, inventor, and successful entrepreneur. His life is a quest for a view of the cosmos where science and spirituality don't just peacefully coexist. He also published Enemy Queen (SparkPress, 2020), a dark comedy that explores the nature of friendship.
  • Matthew Graham '76 is the author of four books of poetry, including The Geography of Home (Galileo Press, 2019). He was selected as State Poet Laureate of Indiana, 2020-22.
  • William H. Groner '77 (with Tom Teicholz) wrote 9/12: The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders (Potomac Books, 2019). Groner's book is the saga of the epic nine-year legal battle he waged against the City of New York and its contractors on behalf of the more than 10,000 first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup.
  • Jordan Gruber ’81, MA ’83, co-authored Your Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand More of Who We Are (Park Street Press, 2020). The book provides a transformative look at the idea of healthy multiplicity: that everyone has multiple selves, and learning to work with them is the true key to success and happiness.
  • Max E. Guttman '08, MSW '12, (as J. Peters) wrote University on Watch: Crisis in the Academy (Austin Macauley, 2020).
  • Joan Gluckauf Haahr '61 wrote Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany (Full Court Press, 2021), in which she  realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about the pre-war lives, deportations and deaths of her grandparents and other close family members. 
  • Clarence Jefferson Hall, Jr. ’01, MA ’03, wrote A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), which traces the planning, construction and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s to the present day.
  • Darran Handshaw '07 published his second novel, The Dark Heart of Redemption (The Engineer's Press, 2022), a science fiction and fantasy novel set in the ruined futuristic city of Redemption.
  • Merrit Hartblay ’76, MSW ’16, wrote Lost Innocence: My Journey From Addiction to Recovery (Independently published, 2020), which shares his difficult escape from the dark places where addiction took him.
  • Scott Harvey '06 wrote Savagely Noble: A Young Man’s Journey From Ignorance, Through Illusion, To Identity (independently published, 2020).
  • Zina L. Hassel '75 wrote My Armadillo Skin: How I Made It As A Woman In The Field Of Telecom (ZLH Enterprises Publishing, 2020), a rare roadmap to the C-suite.
  • Sari Hausler ’92 published I Am .. an ABC Book (Book Baby, 2022), a picture book that encourages children of all ages to identify their best traits and expand their vocabulary. 
  • Gail Hennessey, MST ’80, is the author of Mrs. Paddington and the Silver Mousetraps: A Hair-Raising History of Women's Hairstyles in 18th-century London (Red Chair Press, 2019), a work of fiction that explains a very real fashion trend and the problems it created for women trying to look stylish.
  • Mala Hoffman '82 published the poetry chapbook A History of Place (Finishing Line Press, 2022), an exploration of personal history and an examination of where to place those reflections in present day life. 
  • 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.
  • Vincent Ialenti '08 wrote Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020), a guide for envisioning the planet's far future.
  • Paul DuBois Jacobs '88 published the fourth installment of his Mack Rhino Private Eye series The Lost Lost-and-Found Case (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin, 2022). He is the author of more than 20 books for children, including My Subway Ride (with Jennifer Swender) and Abiyoyo Returns (with musician Pete Seeger).
  • Elizabeth Jeglic, MA '01, PhD '03, published Sexual Grooming: Integrating Research, Practice, Prevention, and Policy (Springer, 2022).
  • Karan Johar '08 is the author of Fighting Chronic Back Pain: Bring LIFE Back to Your YEARS! (independently published, 2020).
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • Stephanie Cohen Katzovicz '96 (as Steph Katzovi) wrote HurriCamp! (Brown Books, 2022), her debut middle-grade fiction novel. The book chronicles a pre-teen's first time at sleepaway camp. The story is set at Camp Hillside (named for one of the author's Binghamton residence halls).
  • Steven G. Kellman '67 wrote Rambling Prose (Trinity University Press, 2020), a collection of essays culled from his lifetime of work on comparative literature, criticism and film studies. He also published American Suite (Finishing Line Press, 2018).
  • 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 his debut novel At The Trough (NineStar Press, 2019), a dystopian take on public education.
  • Liren (Legaspi) Baker '95 published her first cookbook, Meat to the Side: A Plant-Forward Guide to Bringing Balance to Your Plate (Victory Belt Publishing, 2021), a beginner’s guide for people who want a delicious way to add more vegetables to their diets. 
  • Jesse Lubinsky '98 co-authored two books with Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. They are Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality (2020) and The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming (2020).
  • 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.
  • David K. McKenas '77 wrote Shocked: Life and Death at 35,000 Feet (DartFrog Books, 2021), which answers the question, "What happens if I or someone I love has a life-threatening medical event on an airplane?"
  • Hazell McKenzie, MSW '19, wrote Suitcase of Dreams (GenZ Publishing, 2019), which recounts her quest for the American dream after arriving in the U.S. as a teenager and facing many hardships. In 2018, she won the "Worst Cook in America" contest on Food Network.
  • 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.
  • Paul E. McMahon, MA ’73, published Shy Boys: Notes from Ten Years of Working with Software Engineering Giants (Leanpub/Kindle Direct, 2019). 
  • Barbara Boehm Miller '93 wrote When You See Her (Red Adept Publishing, 2023), her first novel. 
  • Glenn Erick Miller, MA 98, wrote a young adult novel, Camper Girl (Regal House Publishing, 2020). Set in the Adirondacks, Camper Girl follows recent high-school grad Shannon Burke, who embarks on a journey that tests her will and reveals a stunning family secret.
  • Bonnie J. Morris, MA ’85, PhD ’88, wrote What's the Score? 25 Years of Teaching Women's Sports History (Indiana University Press, 2022), an insider's view of sports education as well as a guide to turning points in women's sports history.
  • 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. 
  • Anna Qu '06 wrote Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor (Catapult, 2021), a true story about her journey as an immigrant.
  • John R. Rahn '06 published The UNBEATABLE Mindset (independently published, 2020), a tool for goal setting, motivation and routine building.
  • Jim Reuther ’76 authored Gunky’s Adventures In the Land of the Must Believe (LifeRich, 2019), a heartfelt, humorous, tear-jerking, full of wonder and zany anthology of short stories and poems on nature, mystery, family, friends, foes, and fails, one for each letter of the alphabet, and inspired by his beloved late wife. 
  • 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.
  • Isaac Sacolick '93 wrote Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership (Wiley, 2022). The book is a hands-on guide to help technology and business professionals at all career stages acquire skills to drive transformative change.
  • Jasmine Sawers '08 published the flash fiction book The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore (Rose Metal Press, 2022), offering a new mythology to reflect the many faces and voices of the 21st century.
  • Lynn A. Schaefer ’91 is co-editor of A Casebook of Mental Capacity in U.S. Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary (Routledge, 2022) and 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. 
  • Charles Semowich ’71 wrote A History of Interfaith (De Laetsburg Press, 2020), which includes discussions of religious tolerance, comparative religion and interspirituality.
  • Karla Slocum, MA '91, wrote Black Towns, Black Future (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
  • Erin Elizabeth Smith ’04 wrote Down (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2020), a book offering a new take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Steven M. Smith, MA '84, published his debut collection of poems Strongman Contest (Kelsay Books, 2021).
  • Danielle Sofer, MM '08, published the monograph Sex Sounds (MIT Press, 2022).
  • Robyn (Spodek) Schindler '03 published her first childrens book, Three Brave Stars (Our Galaxy Publishing LLC, 2022). Schindler, a psychotherapist and owner of Paint the Stars Art Therapy, wrote and illustrated the book as part of her grief journey after losing her father to brain cancer. 
  • 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.
  • John Suval '91 published the monograph Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022), which examines the position of American West white squatters in U.S. political culture. 
  • Deborah A. Symonds, MA '81, PhD '85, wrote Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Paternalism's Daughter (University of Virginia Press, 2021), a biography of the historian who was notorious as a leftist when she taught at Binghamton, and later an extreme right Catholic conservative.
  • Terrence Tierney ’75 produced the poetry collection The Poet's Garage (Unsolicited Press, 2020).
  • 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.
  • Glenn H. Utter '67 published The Religious Right and American Politics (Grey House Publishing, 2019), which includes chapters on the Religious Right and Science, Electoral Politics and Voting, Cultural Issues, Economic Issues, and American Foreign Policy.
  • Alex Wiesendanger '05 wrote Seeds of Justice (Orbis Books, 2020), a handbook to translate a commitment to social justice into effective action.
  • Ila Weiss '60 wrote Candace Wheeler: A Creative Life (independently published, 2022), which is available in three volumes from Amazon/Kindle Publications. It's an in-depth, fully-illustrated study of the remarkably accomplished life of the pioneer in textile and interior design; editor and writer; entrepreneur; and feminist. 
  • Steven Mark Weiss ’70 published The 96 Incarnations: Who Are You? (independently published, 2020). It’s his third book on astrology, a happy melding of reincarnation and celebrity culture.
  • Dana Wilde, MA '85, PhD '95, published his second collection of naturalist essays Winter: Notes and Numina from the Maine Woods (North Country Press, 2021) and A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine (North Country Press 2020).
  • Vernell Wilks-Johnson '83 is the author of three books: Messy Mia, Leaving the Nest, and Moments In Time (Lulu, 2019).
  • Robin Zachary '82 wrote Styling Beyond Instagram: Take Your Prop Styling Skills from the Square to the Street (Schiffer Craft, 2022), which shows readers how to level up their styling skills to turn their love for props into a promising career.