News
Chinese-American poet and Writing alum Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 is this year’s recipient of The Frost Medal awarded by Poetry Society of America.
The Whiting Foundation announced the 2026 recipients of their prestigious Whiting Awards, which celebrate emerging writers with exceptional literary talent. The cohort of ten included two Columbia alums, Theatre graduate Celine Song '14 and Writing alum and Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12.
As a new addition to the University of Mississippi Press’s American Made Music Series, John Melendez '23 (CC '18) and has co-written the first biography of American trumpeter and composer, Kenny Dorham.
In This Is the Only Kingdom, Professor Jaquira Díaz tells a story about the barrio of el Caserío Padre Rivera in Puerto Rico. Read more from Columbia News.
Writing Program alum Woody Brown '24 draws from some of his own experiences as a non-verbal autistic man for his debut novel. Read more from Columbia Magazine.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12 about creative investigation, letting go, and Bernadette Peters.
Minna Zallman Proctor '98 has won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese.
Mother Tongue, a new memoir from Writing alum Sara Nović '14, is set to hit shelves on May 5, 2026. The book, which being published by Penguin Random House, tracks Nović’s path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who straddle both worlds.
Gringas, the debut novel fromFiction alum Manola Gonzalez Rosillo '19 has sold her debut novel, Gringas, to Bloomsbury for publication in 2028.
Harrison Hill '19 has recently published his debut work of nonfiction, The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Writing alums Alice Evelyn Yang '22 and Hannah Lillith Assadi '13—who is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing—are on the longlist for the 2026 Women Prize for Fiction for their novels A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing (William Morrow, 2026) and Paradiso 17 (Knopf, 2026), respectively.
