This week, we talk with alumnus and Adjunct Associate Professor James Cañón ’04—author of Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men—about making routines, meditating, and overcoming creative blocks. ​

Written and directed by Bergland, Metrics follows Tom Ford (Gabriel Armentano)—an unfulfilled and lonely doorman who buys a virtual assistant, Marta (voiced by Jessica Bettencourt).

Tiny Nightmares, a collection of 42 blood-curdling flash fiction pieces, features work by authors such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, and alumni Selena Gambrell Anderson '10 and Theresa Hottel '18.

The coveted Emerging Writer Fellowship, now in its tenth year, "offers grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career NYC-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers." 

In All the Things We Don't Talk About, Feltman explores themes of family relationships and queer love. 

Poetry Alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15 pays tribute to former undergraduate writing student, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient, Louise Glück through a meditation on her poetry of transformation and the power of reading it in a global pandemic.

Osorio's work, The Last Town Before the Mojave, was selected for the award by poet Oliver de la Paz.

Nathan, the protagonist of Healer of the Water Monster, is a young Navajo boy who stays with his grandmother for the summer.

This student-initiated series puts Professor and Writing Program Chair Lis Harris in conversation with distinguished nonfiction writers about their work and careers.

Glück has been awarded this most prestigious literary award—which honors a writer's full body of work—"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."