Alumni Publications
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Knopf, 2024), a debut essay collection by Writing alumna Emmeline Clein ’22, begins by asking the reader: “Have you ever seen a girl and wanted to possess her?”
Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stories exploring womanhood and humanity that was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction last year.
Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.
Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith ’97 recently published To Free the Captives, a new memoir, with Knopf.
Ways and Means, a debut novel by writing alumnus Daniel Lefferts '19, was published by Abrams Books in February 2024.
How To Become Stupid, a poetry chapbook by Peter Patapis ’20, has been published by Bottlecap Press.
Visual Arts alumna Jacqueline Silberbush '19 has published a book of photos, What Shod I be!!!!? with Dashwood Books. The book, which is an extension of her ongoing photographic series by the same title, follows the lived experiences of a young woman’s life from the moment of her birth to that of her child’s.
Another Land of My Body, a new poetry collection by Writing alumnus Rodney Terich Leonard ’18, will be published by Four Way Books in March 2024.
Roxy and Coco, a novel by Writing alumna Terese Svoboda ’78, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in February 2024.
With The Vulnerables, a seemingly random, often discursive, thoroughly wonderful new book, Sigrid Nunez ’75 (BC '72) has written not so much a novel as another of her virtuoso mash-ups of fiction, memoir, and intellectual rumination. Read more in Columbia Magazine.
Still Alive, a debut novel by writing alumna LJ Pemberton ’10, will be published by Malarkey Books in February 2024.
Writing alumna Chyana Marie Sage ’23 is set to publish her memoir Soft as Bones with House of Anansi in January 2025.