a reading list, active work in the journal, and extensive participation in classes and groups. Alumni The NELP program has had participants who have gone on to careers in writing and the arts. Among those are Bruce Weber and Mark Leibovich, writers for the New York Times, Ryan Walsh, poet and Writing Program Director at Vermont Studio Center, Diane Cook, formerly a producer at Public Radio International's This American Life and author of Man V. Nature, a book of short stories published in 2014 by Harper Collins, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn, and journalist and essayist Robert Fieseler, author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Upstairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, winner of the 2019 Edgar Award in Best Crime among many others. Other books written by former participants in NELP include Snow Island by Katherine Towler and Voelker's Pond: A Robert Traver Legacy by Ed Wargin. In 2018 alumna Dana Nessel was elected Attorney General of the State of Michigan. References University of Michigan American writers' organizations Culture of New England