Alumni Publications
Steppe, a novel translated from the Russian by Elina Alter '16, was published January 20, 2026 with Catapult Press.
"Speaking Through Pain: Feminist Testimony and Diasporic Resistance in Born in Evin" by Tania Ahmadi '17 has been published in Cinema Iranica.
MA Film and Media Studies alum Marc Francis '11 will publish his new film history Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Canon with Duke University Press in February 2026.
Acclaimed Fiction alum Emma Cline '13 will publish her third novel, Switzy, with Random House in September 2026.
Poetry alum Isabella DeSendi '17 has published her debut full-length poetry collection, Someone Else’s Hunger, with Four Way Books.
Triage, the newest book from Writing alum Claudia Rankine '93, will be making its way to bookshelves on August 4, 2026.
Pulitzer prize winner, former poet laureate, Poetry alum, and current professor at Harvard, Tracy K. Smith '97 has published a new book, Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, with Norton Press.
Theatre alum Karen Malpede '71 recently released her new memoir, Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths, with Vine Leaves Press.
2024 National Book Award for Translation winner and Writing alum Lin King '22 has sold her debut novel, WEEB, to Henry Holt books.
Writing alum Anika Jade Levy '23 has published her debut novel, Flat Earth, earlier this month with Catapult Books.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing and Fiction alum Hannah Lillith Assadi '13 will publish her third novel, Paradiso 17, with Knopf in March 2026.
Film and Media Studies MA alum Payton McCarty-Simas '24 has published their second book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film with Luna Press Publishing.