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We talk with Associate Professor Wendy Walters about the interplay between poetry and nonfiction, the art of concealing knee-deep

Adjunct Assistant Professor Christine Smallwood has published La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2023), a close look at Chantal

WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Night

Writing alumna Kao Kalia Yang ’05 has published Where Rivers Part (Simon and Schuster, 2024), a memoir that centers her f

L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles ear

Second-year writing student Ashley D.

Leila Philip ’91, a writer, journalist, and poet, spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverla

Claudia Rankine '93 discussed her work, the importance of dialogue with others, and the essentiality of the arts in a new speaker series.

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm(Knopf, 2024), a debut essay collection by Writing alumna Emmeline Clein ’22

In Splinters, her first memoir, Leslie Jamison explores her divorce and the birth of her daughter.

Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stor

Rankine read from her new work-in-progress ‘Triage’ and discussed the current political moment.