Join us Thursday, December 5, at 7 pm, for our stellar lineup:
Mansi Dahal '24 is a writer from Biratnagar, Nepal, who currently lives in NYC. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, where she was awarded the Waletzky Fellowship for distinguished work, her writing has been featured in POETRY, New England Review, Southeast Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Tupelo Press, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poems “what the eye chooses to see” and “Doll-house” were nominated for the Best New Poets anthology and Palette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize, respectively. Mansi also served as the editor-in-chief of Some Kind Of Opening (SKOO). She is currently working on a collection of personal essays.
Kendra Jones '21 is a writer, educator, and NCAA women's basketball official based in New York City. She completed her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia University. She is a Member Resident of Woodward Residency. Her play, A Test of Taste, has been produced at A.R.T. / New York as part of Script Club NYC's one-act play festival. You can find her on Instagram at kendra_jones_
Imani Parker '23 is Jamaican-American writer, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and her BA in Creative Writing from SUNY Purchase. Her work explores the relationships between people, revealing moments of intimacy and vulnerability. She’s interested in themes of sexuality, desire, friendship, and memory, and views creative writing as the ultimate act of empathy. Imani is currently working on an epistolary autofiction novella in which a bisexual woman reflects on an intense and impactful female friendship from college.
What is Columbia Selects? Columbia Selects is an alumni reading series hosted by the Columbia MFA Writing Program. 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.
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