Nonfiction News & Events

Writing student Rochelle Goldstein has been named the 2023 winner of The Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction.

Writing alumna Samantha Childs ’14 has recently published her new picture book titled Henri and the Magnificent Snort (Se

Writing alumnus Raffi Joe Wartanian ’21 has been named the first Poet Laureate of Glendale, California. 

Several Columbia University School of the Arts alumni have received Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the most prestigious awards in the arts and huma

Professor Margo Jefferson (JRN ’71) has been awarded the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Constructing a Nervous System: a Memoir (Pantheon,

Professor Phillip Lopate (CC ’64) has been voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a remarkable honor and well-deserved recognition of

Here, we talk to Adjunct Assistant Professor Melissa Smith about finding your path, tech-savviness, and the recent evolution of arts journalism.

Chasing Bright Medusas, a new biography from Adjunct Associate Professor Benjamin Taylor, is coming next October–and that’s not all.

Constructing a Nervous System (Pantheon Books, 2022), the latest memoir by Professor Margo Jefferson, is among the finalists for the Andre

My Pinup, a two-part memoir from Associate ProfessorHilton Als, was recently released from New Directions Publishing. 

All the Lies They Did Not Tell, a work of true-crime by Pablo Trincia and translated from the Italian by alumna Elettra Pauletto ’17, was