Events

Past Event

Creative Writing Lecture with Alexandra Kleeman

February 12, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Dodge 501

Alexandra Kleeman '12 is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, one of the New York Times’ Notable Books of 2021, Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others, and nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer, Harper's, VOGUE, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. She is an Associate Professor at Cornell University and the recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.

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About the Creative Writing Lectures Series

The Creative Writing Lecture Series brings distinguished writers to Columbia for original talks on craft. Recent guests have included John Keene, Sarah Manguso, Lynne Tillman, and Carmen Maria Machado.