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Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Alan Gilbert has published a new edition of his epic poem The Everyday Life of Design.
Professor Binnie Kirshenbaum (CC ’80) will be releasing her eighth novel, Counting Backwards, with Penguin Random House on March 25, 2025. The book follows a middle-aged couple confronted by illness—the husband’s descent into early-onset Lewy body dementia—and their final years together full of despair, humor, rage, and the moments of beauty that surround them all.
Lin King ’22 has won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature for her work translating Yáng Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue to English from its original Mandarin Chinese.
Crystal Hana Kim ’14 (CC’09) has been named a finalist for the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award for her novel The Stone Home. Kim’s novel is one of five titles selected as finalists from a pool of over 150 submissions.
Writing alum Karen Russell '06 has announced the release of her latest novel The Antidote, forthcoming from Knopf in Spring 2025. The book marks Russell's first novel since her bestselling debut Swamplandia!
Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.
In his debut poetry collection, Decay Studies (Six Gallery Press), alum Arthur Seefahrt ’14 extracts moments of silence out of beautiful noise.
In Our Likeness, a debut novel from writing alum Bryan VanDyke ’00, released on September 1 from Little A, a literary imprint of Amazon Publishing. The novel, a science fiction fable about the possibility and terror of new technology, reflects VanDyke’s own fascination with AI, a fascination that would directly help him sell the book.
Adjunct Associate Professor and alum Lynn Steger Strong '14 is set to release her fourth novel, The Float Test, on April 8 of 2025 through HarperCollins. The book explores themes of family, ambition, secrets, and love against the backdrop of a sweltering Florida summer.
Fiction alum Jemimah Wei '22 will publish her debut novel, The Original Daughter, with Doubleday on May 6, 2025.
Writing alum Carolyn Jack '16 explores family trauma and the world of opera in her debut novel The Changing of Keys, released in August by Regal House Publishing.
Adjunct Professor Brenda Wineapple's latest book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, explores the infamous 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Published by Random House in August, the book examines the trial of John T. Scopes, a Tennessee school teacher prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution, through the lens of America's ongoing struggles with religious fundamentalism and the teaching of science.
