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Faculty Heidi Julavits Publishes Her New Novel THE VANISHERS
Faculty Heidi Julavits publishes her new novel The Vanishers from Doubleday Books, due out on March 13, 2012.  The Vanishers  is a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another, chronicling the paranormal warfare between a young psychic and her mentor. This is Julavits' fourth novel. more
 
Writing Faculty Timothy Donnelly Receives Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Columbia University School of the Arts is pleased to announce that Timothy Donnelly, Associate Professor of Writing, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation (Wave, Picador). The annual award, offered through the Claremont Graduate University, is one of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive. more
 
Writing Alumni at Sundance 2012
Two alumni of the School of the Arts Writing Program in Nonfiction have inspired films that will be featured at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. more
 
Ben Marcus Publishes THE FLAME ALPHABET
Writing faculty Ben Marcus' most recent novel, The Flame Alphabet, will be released by Knopf on January 17. It is the story of an epidemic that sweeps the country, making the sound of children's voices lethal. more
 
Writing Alumni and Faculty Featured in 2011 Best American Collections
Writing Alumni and Faculty Featured in 2011 Best American Collections Two Nonfiction Alums published in Best American Essays 2011: Rachel Riederer (’11 SOA) "Patient" Bridget Potter (’11 SOA) "Lucky Girl" Edited by Edwidge Danticat hmhbooks.com   more
 
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell ('06 SOA) Named NY Times' Ten Best of '11, to Air on HBO
Karen Russell's ('06 SOA) most recent novel Swamplandia! was listed as one of "The Ten Best Books of 2011" by The New York Times. more
 
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Joins Columbia Faculty
Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University’s Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, announced today the appointment of novelist Richard Ford as the soon-to-be-established Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at Columbia University. Ford will teach in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. more
 
Writing Professor Margo Jefferson Interviewed for The Days of Yore
Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program professor Margo Jefferson was interviewed recently for The Days of Yore. Jefferson, an alumna of the Columbia Journalism School, is a cultural critic whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Magazine and Vogue. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1995, and more recently gained critical acclaim for her 2006 book, On Michael Jackson. more
 
Writing Professor Ben Marcus Reads for The New Yorker
Columbia University Writing Program Professor Ben Marcus reads Kazuo Ishiguro’s story, “A Village After Dark,” for The New Yorker’s fiction podcast.  more
 
Writing Faculty at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Writing Faculty Jonathan Dee, Timothy Donnelly, Deborah Eisenberg, Sam Lipsyte, Phillip Lopate, Richard Locke, Sigrid Nunez, Darcy Steinke, Mark Strand, Justin Taylor, and Writing alumna Tina Chang give readings and participate in discussions at The Brooklyn Book Festival.   more
 
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