The Booker judges described Cook's The New Wilderness as “wonderfully imagined and written… A tense future-shock novel that’s also a tender exploration of a mother-daughter relationship under extreme pressure.”

The debut book by van Meter, is a nonfiction retelling of the critical court case in mid-20th century Louisiana that changed American law: Duncan v. Louisiana.

The award is given to a poem that best evokes a connection to place in the US.

Columbia alumnae, Afia Atakora ’16, Clare Beams ’06, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter ’12, penned three of the twenty-seven titles selected.

Greene's memoir is about her time living in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), a long-duration Mars exploration analog study run by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. There, Greene served as the mission’s second-in-command.

Described as a “gothic Olive Kitteridge,” “Gone Girl for the new decade,” Nothing Can Hurt You has been praised for rejuvenating the thriller genre.

Winner of the Lambda award for gay poetry, Slingshot has received much critical acclaim since its publication late last year.

The novel headlined a Vulture review as “the summer book I couldn’t put down,” has joined multiple summer reading lists including the New York Times, LitHub, and Buzzfeed.

Since 2018, Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky has invited a dazzling array of poets to the Lenfest Center for the Arts, including Ken Chen, CAConrad, Anaïs Duplan, Matthea Harvey, Douglas Kearney, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Fred Mot

Terry McMillan, author of It’s Not All Downhill From Here, calls Destination Wedding “[a] witty and romantic novel perfect for all readers.”