Alumni Publications
Mother Tongue, a new memoir from Writing alum Sara Nović '14, is set to hit shelves on May 5, 2026. The book, which being published by Penguin Random House, tracks Nović’s path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who straddle both worlds.
Gringas, the debut novel fromFiction alum Manola Gonzalez Rosillo '19 has sold her debut novel, Gringas, to Bloomsbury for publication in 2028.
Film and Media Studies alum Majorca Bateman-Coe '24 has published an article in Architecture_MPS, the official journal of the international research organization, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS).
Harrison Hill '19 has recently published his debut work of nonfiction, The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Film and Media Studies alum Wentao Ma '18 has published an article, "'Trans-' as A Method: Queer Kinship and Mobility in Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2012) and Havana Divas (2018)," in the January 2026 Journal of Chinese Film Studies.
Poetry alum Jaia Hamid Bashir '20 published her debut collection of poetry, The Afterlife of Sweetness, this past February after the book received the Charles B. Wheeler Prize in 2024.
Writing alum Margrét Ann Thors '16 will publish her debut novel, Freyja, with Spiegel and Grau on August 4, 2026.
Writing alum Elettra Pauletto '17 recently published a translation of Marzio F. Mian’s award-winning book of nonfiction, Volga Blues, with W.W. Norton & Company.
Award winning novelist and Writing alum Sigrid Nunez '75 is set to publish her first collection of short stories this summer with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
After years of writing for theatre, Playwriting alum Kim Merill '95 has shifted her focus to fiction. Her newest book Red Girl Jumping (The Journal of Experimental Fiction, 2026) is described as an experimental memoir written by memory personified.
Writing alum Dolapo Demuren '17 was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a national award from America's oldest poetry organization which includes publication of his manuscript, American Love Sonnets.
