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In September 2018, current student Raffi Joe Wartanian launched Letters for Peace (LFP), a project to publish letters between youth in Armenia and

Alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12, who earlier this year was awarded the Berlin Prize, has now also received the equally prestigious and highly competit

This week, it was announced that the novel The New Wilderness by alumna Diane Cook ’12 made the longlist for the 2020 Man Booker Prize.

Deep Delta Justice, debut book by alumnus Matthew van Meter ’16, is a nonfiction retelling of the critical court case in mid-20th century Louisiana

Recent alumna Jai Hamid Bashir ’20 is the winner of the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize, a prestigious award given to a poem tha

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by alumna Kate Greene ’20 is a memoir about Greene’s time living in the Hawaii Space Exp

Nothing Can Hurt You, the recent debut novel by alumna Nicola Maye Goldberg ’18, was published to very positive reviews in June.

Recent alumnus Francisco González ’19 won the prestigious 2020 Gulf Coast Prize for his short story “Clean Teen.”

Slingshot by recent alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 was a finalist for the prestigious Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecra

Since 2018, Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky has invited a dazzling array of poets to the Lenfest Center for the Arts, including Ken C

Destination Wedding by alumna Diksha Basu ’14 will be available June 30.

The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour, a book by alumna Lori Soderlind ’97 was released on June 10.