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Still Alive, a debut novel by writing alumna LJ Pemberton ’10, will be published by Malarkey Books in February 2024.

From Here To There is a series in conversation with recent Writing alumni whose books are hitting the shelves. We reflect on their time in the MFA program, how they took an idea from workshop to publication, and what the writing life looks like on the other side. This week we talk with Molly McGhee '19 about her debut novel, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind.

Writing alumna Chyana Marie Sage ’23 is set to publish her memoir Soft as Bones with House of Anansi in January 2025.

Brysen Boyd ’20 has been named one of twelve finalists for the 21st annual Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. 

On October 4, 2023, poet Kim Hyesoon joined her decade-long translator and fellow poet Don Mee Choi for a special evening at Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, where they read excerpts from their work and spoke about their creative processes and experimentation. 

We talk with Assistant Professor Chloé Cooper Jones about writing as a safe space, the tension within the self, and how writers can build their unique lens through which to view the world.

Writing Program alumnus Paolo Iacovelli '21 will publish his debut novel with Clash Books in July 2024.

The Cheapest France in Town, a poetry collection by Seo Jung Hak, has been translated from the Korean by Writing alumna Megan Sungyoon ’20.

Paradise Logic, a debut novel by Writing alumna Sophie Frances Kemp ’23 will be published by Simon & Schuster and Scribner UK in the spring of 2025. 

Five Star Stranger, a debut novel by Writing alumna Kat Tang ’22, will be published by Scribner Books, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, in August 2024. 

Loneliness & Company, a debut novel from Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Charlee Dyroff ’20 (CC ’15), is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing in May 2024. 

An English translation by Professor Susan Bernofsky of Yoko Tawada’s German novel, Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel, will be published by New Directions in July 2024. 

Student Series

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From Here to There

by Lisa Cochran

A series in conversation with recent Writing alumni whose books are hitting the shelves, where we reflect on what the writing life looks like on the other side.

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Past Lives

by Jessie Shohfi

A series featuring Columbia writers who began their professional lives on different career paths.