“Publication” Class Notes

Daniel Frisch (Arch ’87 CM) has published Looking Forward to Monday Morning (ORO Editions 2025), a collection of essays. Frisch is an architect based in New York City and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Debbie Levy (Col ’78 CM) has published A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight Over Science in Schools, the first of three books she will publish in 2025. Levy will also publish Photo Ark 1-2-3: An Animal Counting Book in Poetry and Pictures and The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing After World War II.

Levy’s previous books for children and young adults have put her on the New York Times bestseller lists and earned awards including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Virginia Library Association’s Jefferson Cup Award.

Cara Goodwin (Col ’07 CM) has recently been published in CharlottesvilleFamily magazine. Her article is about the science behind toilet training. After a deep dive into current medical research, she distilled the findings into easy-to-understand action items to help parents. This is part of an ongoing series for the publication and will include future articles on sleep in childhood, parenting styles, mother burnout, developmental milestones, childhood anxiety and more. A licensed psychologist, Goodwin is the founder of Parenting Translator and the mother of four young children.

Billy Wynne (Law ’04) will publish The Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening, with New World Library on March 18. Wynne and his family live in Colorado. His daughter is a first-year student at Cornell.

Andrew Ceperley (Grad ’89) has published Tone Setters in the Academy: How to Build an Inspired Life as a University Administrator.  The book offers practical strategies, known as “tone setter mindsets,” to help administrators dealing with challenges such as campus politics, the lack of promotional opportunities, and workplace dynamics cultivate their unique tone, manage energy, and build resilience. Ceperley is a seasoned university administrator, consultant, and a professional certified coach for individuals and teams serving colleges and universities throughout the world.

Cecelia Tomko (Col ’92, Educ ’92 CM) has published Sacred Stones, a novel set in her adopted home of Butler, Pennsylvania, where a man inherits his great-grandmother’s house. When his 10-year-old daughter begins to experience strange visions of the past, each glimpse of her ancestors leads the family closer to bringing long-buried secrets of theft, deceit and betrayal into the light.

Tomko moved to Butler in 2010. Impacted by the closing of a major steel railcar company almost 30 years earlier, much of its Main Street was boarded up. Tomko fell in love with the town and its history, as well as the surrounding beauty of western Pennsylvania. She hopes the book, which is packed with history and descriptions of local gems, will bring positive attention and tourism to the town.

Michael Ross (Col ’70, Law ’77 CM) has published volumes eight and nine of his collections of quotations from literary fiction, Ross’s Spiritual Discoveries and Ross’s Literary Discoveries. Ross has been collecting gems from his reading of literary fiction since the 1970s, seeking pithy observations and perspectives from a diverse group of authors across the globe. Quotes are often thought-provoking, humorous, or both. The collections illustrate the value of quotations, introduce readers to authors and books that they do not know, and provide the perfect pocket-sized gift for readers and booklovers.

Michelle Trong Perrin-Steinberg (Col ’01 CM) has published Kindly, Michelle, a book that seeks to assist law students, early career lawyers, and others with inspiration and encouragement on their journey. The book details her path to becoming chief legal counsel at a global technology company, explaining how she grew up differently and fell into export control and sanctions regulatory compliance. Through family stories—including from her father, Michael T. Perrin (Com ’75 CM)—and practical advice, Perrin-Steinberg explains that uncovering one’s values is key.

Matthew Morris (Col ’16 CM) has published The Tilling, a collection of essays which explores questions of race, identity, family history and love. The book won the 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Book Prize, founded in 2017 by the editors of Seneca Review to support innovative work in the essay form, including cross-genre and hybrid work, verse forms, text and image, connected or serial pieces, and/or beyond category projects. It was published by Seneca Review Books, an imprint of Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press.

Jessica Beebe (Col ’91 CM) has published her first novel, Muddy the Water, co-written with her brother, Matt Barrows (Col ’95 CM). Shown from three perspectives, killer, detective, and reporter, Muddy the Water brings readers inside the newsroom of a struggling small newspaper on the bucolic South Carolina coast and speaks to the concept of identity—and whether anyone ever shows their true self.

Jack Bailey (Col ’88 CM) has published Nobody’s Coming: 21 Essential Truths for Taking Control of Your Career, a book for adults aged 18 to 35 in the early stages of their professional lives who want more autonomy but don’t know how to produce it for themselves.

The book offers a collection of wisdom gathered from three decades of experience in the working world. Bailey’s intention is to help others by sharing lessons he learned the hard way that can help others transform their jobs into careers.

M.L.(Peggy) Herring (Col ’74) has published Born of Fire and Rain, an illustrated exploration of the Pacific temperate rainforest, a region of giant trees, exploding mountains, disappearing owls, megafires, tsunamis, and lessons on living on a rapidly changing planet. Published by Yale University Press, the book recalls Herring’s undergraduate work with UVa ecologist Bill Odum, before she migrated to the Pacific Northwest as an ecologist, artist, and writer. This is her seventh book.

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