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Crystal Hana Kim ’14 (CC’09) has been named a finalist for the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award for her novel The Stone Home. Kim’s novel is one of five titles selected as finalists from a pool of over 150 submissions.
Visual Arts student Ashley McLean recently enjoyed a solo exhibition, Seeking You in Other Bodies…, at the Blue Sky Gallery, as part of The Annual En Foco Photography Fellowship.
Writing alum Karen Russell '06 has announced the release of her latest novel The Antidote, forthcoming from Knopf in Spring 2025. The book marks Russell's first novel since her bestselling debut Swamplandia!
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Prince Fellowship alum Rachel Sussman discovered the suffragists in a middle school textbook, sandwiched between World War I and the Prohibition. The book didn’t give her much—she only met Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—but she was already hooked.
Playwriting alum Sam Grabiner ‘21 won the 2024 Stage Debut Award for his play Boys on the Verge of Tears. The Stage, Britain’s premier theatre publication, has annually recognized the most promising debuts in the region since 2017
Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.
Film alum and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar ’02 is tackling big questions with a big star in his new play McNeal on Broadway.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Victoria ‘Tory’ Bailey about loud and noisy classrooms, the challenges facing students, and the importance of bringing theatre to audiences.
Dramaturgy alum Cha Ramos ’21 has punched her ticket for the Broadway adaptation of Death Becomes Her, where she’ll serve as Fight Director.
Visual Arts students Javier Griffey and Sharon Lee, along with Undergraduate Visual Arts student Vivien Ko Sweet, are exhibiting new works responding to Coney Island's rich history as a site of leisure, creativity, and cultural exchange.
In his debut poetry collection, Decay Studies (Six Gallery Press), alum Arthur Seefahrt ’14 extracts moments of silence out of beautiful noise.
In Our Likeness, a debut novel from writing alum Bryan VanDyke ’00, released on September 1 from Little A, a literary imprint of Amazon Publishing. The novel, a science fiction fable about the possibility and terror of new technology, reflects VanDyke’s own fascination with AI, a fascination that would directly help him sell the book.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Richard Dresser has adapted his 2020 novel It Happened Here into a six-part podcast series being released weekly through the end of October.
Eliza Barry Callahan’s novel tries to answer that question with humor and empathy.
Adjunct Associate Professor and alum Lynn Steger Strong '14 is set to release her fourth novel, The Float Test, on April 8 of 2025 through HarperCollins. The book explores themes of family, ambition, secrets, and love against the backdrop of a sweltering Florida summer.