News
"Loot, the ambitious third novel from Tania James ’06, charts the sprawling fictional journey of an actual historical artifact across two centuries (eighteenth and nineteenth), eight different narrative perspectives (from an Indian sultan to a British seaman), and four geographic backdrops (India, the open seas, France, and England)."
The Goblin Twins, a children’s book by adjunct faculty member and Writing alumna Frances Cha ’11, was published last month by Crown Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House).
House Of The Dead, a chapbook by second-year Writing student Mari Yoo, is available now from Bottle Cap Press.
Writing alumna Cat Bohannon ’09 (GSAS ’22, '13, '10) is slated to publish her new book, Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, on October 3, 2023 with Knopf.
Our beloved colleague—editor, essayist, and critic Richard Locke—who taught at Columbia for 38 years, died on Friday August 25, 2023 at the age of 81.
Writing student Rochelle Goldstein has been named the 2023 winner of The Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction. Goldstein’s essay, "The Stain," will be published in the Winter 2023/2024 issue.
We’re delighted to welcome two new faculty members to the 2022/23 academic year.
Poetry alumna Tiffany Troy ’22 has published Dominus (BlazeVOX, 2023), her first full-length poetry collection. Dominus was conceived and compiled during Troy's time as a student at Columbia.
Crystal Hana Kim '14 (CC '09) will publish her new novel, The Stone Home, on April 2, 2024 with HarperCollins.
Writing alumna Samantha Childs ’14 has recently published her new picture book titled Henri and the Magnificent Snort (Sea Lavender Publishing, 2023).
Mona Simpson ’85 returns with a new novel, Commitment, published by Knopf earlier this spring.
