For the May Queen (Vanilla Heart Publishing, 2008) by Kate Evans takes place on a college campus in the 1980s and features a fiesty and bold protagonist, Norma Rogers.

Dan White's The Cactus Eaters:How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail was published this fall by Harper Collins.

SJSU MFA FACULTY

Core Faculty

• Samuel Maio
  
• Cathleen Miller
  
• Alan Soldofsky
  
• Nick Taylor
  

Professors

• John Engell
  
• Persis Karim
  
• Gabriele Rico
  

Lecturers

• Scott Sublett
  
• Kate Evans
  
• Robert James