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The novel, published by Little, Brown and Company, tells a multi-generational story which grounds itself in the myth of The Minotaur.
In 1919, Tejano legislator José Tomás Canales had gathered evidence of the Texas Rangers’ violence against Mexican workers and small landowners. Yet when the moment came to confront two leaders, he failed to call them to the stand. In These Bones Can Speak, Writing alum Adin Dobkin '20 investigates the forces behind that decision, as well as the political system that constrained Canales’s pursuit of accountability.
In her debut work of literary horror, Katie (HarperCollins, 2027), Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky follows a young New Yorker whose decision to become a surrogate mother draws her into a dangerous, possibly demonic world. Exploring the intersection of reproductive desire, financial insecurity, and manipulation, the novel turns an opportunity for a fresh start into mounting dread. Katie will be published on August 3, 2027.
The National Book Award Foundation announced its 25 finalists for the 77th National Book Award, spanning across Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Among the list of works nominated as finalists for this prize are four books written by Columbia alumni: Paradiso 17 (Knopf, 2026) written by Hannah Lillith Assadi '13; Mother Tongue (Random House, 2026) by Sara Novic’s '14; Beginning Middle End (Knopf, 2026) by Valeria Luiselli (GSAS '15); and The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music …
Jinwoo Chong '21, author of the award-winning novel Flux, will release his third novel, Club Nine Tails, with Random House in March 2027–a novel about family, reconciliation, and a cross-country adventure.
In The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press on October 1, Writing alum Kristi D. Osorio '17 examines the cultural obsession with true crime through a personal lens. The author’s debut opens with then-fifteen-year-old Osorio in her bedroom, the night her mother murdered her grandmother. Through a blend of memoir and criticism, Osorio brings a human perspective to an often-sensationalized narrative, reclaiming her own “coming of age in the shadows of violence.”
The Center for Fiction recently announced the longlist for its 2026 First Novel Prize, which includes three Columbia University alums and faculty: Fiction alum Woody Brown '24; Undergraduate Creative Writing Adjunct Assistant Professor Giada Scodellaro; and Columbia College alum Stacey Yu (CC '20).
Winner of the 2024 International Berkshire Prize and named one of Debutiful’s “2026 Debut Poetry Collections You Need to Read,” Song in Tammuz by Avia Tadmor ’18 is forthcoming on October 1, 2026, from Tupelo Press.
Second-year Writing student Selena Aiyla has just been named the Managing Editor at Office Magazine, a role second to the Editor-In-Chief and Founder of the magazine.
In the debut novel by Writing alum Willa Rosenbach Morris '90, interwoven stories circle the roof of Sylvie's childhood home in Queens, NY.
Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky's most recent book of poems explores personhood and consciousness. Read more from Columbia News.
In her new book, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint, forthcoming from Scribner on October 13, 2026, Associate Professor of Writing Wendy S. Walters traverses art history, architecture, and consumer culture to examine the impact of white paint on our lived environment and in our collective imaginary. Beginning with a sudden unease caused by the white walls of her son's school, the book is anchored in Walters's immediate sensory experience, making her cultural interrogation one that recasts our choices and habits as individuals in a new light.
