News
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.
Poet and scholar Aaron Poochigian '16 is the 2025 winner of the Anahid Literary Prize, an annual prize given to an emerging Armenian-American writer to celebrate Armenian culture and talent.
Chinese-American poet and Writing alum Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 is this year’s recipient of The Frost Medal awarded by Poetry Society of America.
The Whiting Foundation announced the 2026 recipients of their prestigious Whiting Awards, which celebrate emerging writers with exceptional literary talent. The cohort of ten included two Columbia alums, Theatre graduate Celine Song '14 and Writing alum and Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12.
As a new addition to the University of Mississippi Press’s American Made Music Series, John Melendez '23 (CC '18) and has co-written the first biography of American trumpeter and composer, Kenny Dorham.
In This Is the Only Kingdom, Professor Jaquira Díaz tells a story about the barrio of el Caserío Padre Rivera in Puerto Rico. Read more from Columbia News.
Writing Program alum Woody Brown '24 draws from some of his own experiences as a non-verbal autistic man for his debut novel. Read more from Columbia Magazine.
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 Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12 about creative investigation, letting go, and Bernadette Peters.
Minna Zallman Proctor '98 has won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese.
