News
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.
Sarah-Jane Collins ’18 is the author of Radiant Heat, a new novel set to be published by Berkley Books on January 23, 2024.
Writing alumna Tenzin Dickie ’14 has published The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays (Penguin, 2023), a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction.
Writing alumna Elysha Chang ’11 has just released her debut novel titled A Quitter’s Paradise.
Adjunct Associate Professor Adam Wilson ’09 has co-written the screenplay for the upcoming film Last Days of Basic Cable alongside Justin Taylor. Film alumnus Albert Berger ’83 is also attached to the project as one of the film's producers.
Writing alumnus Harold Rogers ’21 has published his first novel, Tropicália, released by Atria Books earlier this month.
