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Writing alumna Kao Kalia Yang ’05 has published Where Rivers Part (Simon and Schuster, 2024), a memoir that centers her family’s escape from the genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, resulting from the U.S. Army’s involvement in Laos.
L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles earlier this month.
Second-year writing student Ashley D. Escobar was selected by Eileen Myles as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner for her poetry collection, Glib.
Leila Philip ’91, a writer, journalist, and poet, spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America.
Claudia Rankine '93 discussed her work, the importance of dialogue with others, and the essentiality of the arts in a new speaker series.
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Knopf, 2024), a debut essay collection by Writing alumna Emmeline Clein ’22, begins by asking the reader: “Have you ever seen a girl and wanted to possess her?”
In Splinters, her first memoir, Leslie Jamison explores her divorce and the birth of her daughter.
Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stories exploring womanhood and humanity that was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction last year.
Rankine read from her new work-in-progress ‘Triage’ and discussed the current political moment.
Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.
Carlie Hoffman '16 has been awarded a 2024 National Jewish Book Award for her poetry collection When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023).
Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith ’97 recently published To Free the Captives, a new memoir, with Knopf.
