Join us Thursday, April 4, at 7 pm, for our stellar lineup:
Kai-Lilly Karpman ’23 is a writer, educator, and translator from Los Angeles. Her work has been published in Plume, Image Magazine, Passengers , among others. She was a finalist in the inaugural Ashland Poetry Broadside competition. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she received a teaching fellowship and a translation grant, and studied at Iowa University’s writer workshop. Her song lyrics have appeared in Ms. Marvel and The Marvels soundtracks. Kai-Lilly values the marriage between literature's intuitive, unnameable power and the formal techniques that support its emergence. Her subject matter is almost always the effects of patriarchy.
Chukwuma Ndulue ’18 is a writer and teacher. He is author of the chapbook Boys Quarter (Ugly Duckling Presse). He has been the recipient of fellowships from Columbia University and The Kenyon Review. Chukwuma is also one of the co-founders of the Aftermath Arts Cooperative.
Sophie Unterman ’16 is Head of the English Department at Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia and has taught writing at Columbia University, Lehman College-CUNY, and the University of New Orleans. Her essays have appeared in The Forward, The Iowa Review, Guernica, and The Toast. The recipient of a 2017 American Jewish Press Association Simon Rockower Award, Unterman is currently revising her manuscript, a collection of essays about her grandmother's Holocaust survival story and her own Jewish identity.
What is Columbia Selects? Columbia Selects is an alumni reading series hosted by the Columbia MFA Writing Program and the Office of Alumni Affairs. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success. This is your chance to glimpse who you'll be reading in 2025!
Come for the talent. Stay for the camaraderie and cocktails.
Columbia Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke '00 and Emily Austin '10.
For more information email to [email protected].
