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Fresh off the success of their debut novel, a writer wrestles with disillusionment, despair, and mysterious visions in surreal sophomore novel, Lucid Dreams, by Daphne Palasi Andreades '19.
Two books from Columbia alums are featured on this summer reading list from Columbia Magazine. Read more.
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 Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing BK Fischer '97 about cranberry morphemes, plasticity, and tap dancing.
Associate Professor of Writing Anelise Chen and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the categories of Memoir or Autobiography and Criticism respectively.
The National Book Foundation recently announced its list of the 5 Under 35 honorees for 2026. Among this year’s awardees are two School of the Arts MFA Writing alums, Anika Jade Levy '23, author of Flat Earth, and Stephanie Wambagu '24, author of Lonely Crowds.
Taiwan Travelogue, translated by Writing alum Lin King '22, has just been awarded the International Booker Prize.
Joana Urtasun '22 has published a translation of Between Fish Scales by Basque poet Leire Bilbao.
As part of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program's Art + Life series, Ravn sat down with Associate Professor Rivka Galchen '06, for a conversation on her writing process and latest novel, The Wax Child. Read more from the Columbia Spectator.
Writing alum Eduardo Martínez-Leyva '15 has won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, one of the most prestigious awards in contemporary poetry, for his debut collection, Cowboy Park (2024), out with University of Wisconsin Press.
In the course description for one of the Writing Program's most clamored-for classes, Lecturer in Writing Keri Bertino '09 poses two classic questions in writing pedagogy: "Can creative writing really be taught?" and "Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?"
Associate Professor of Writing, Head of the Fiction concentration and horror virtuoso Victor LaValle '98 has adapted his novel The Devil in Silver into a six-episode limited series with AMC+ and Shudder.
But Octopi Don’t Sing, a chapbook by Li Zhuang '19, has been published by Purple Ink Press.
