Writing News

News

Lying In, a new book of poems from alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15, is out now from Milkweed Editions. 

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, a new memoir from Associate Professor Shane McCrae, is coming this summer from Simon & Schuster. 

In Times to Come, a third novel from alumnus Kristopher Jansma ’06, has been acquired by Ecco for publication next year. 

Professor Margo Jefferson (JRN ’71) has been awarded the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Constructing a Nervous System: a Memoir (Pantheon, 2022).

Ninth Building, a book by the highly regarded Chinese writer Zou Jingzhi and translated by Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, will be released next week from Open Letter. The work has been longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. 

When There Was Light, a second collection of poetry from alumna Carlie Hoffman ’16, is out now from Four Way Books. 

Biography of X, the highly anticipated new novel by Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alumna Catherine Lacey ’10, is out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Here, we talk with Professor Shane McCrae about why true poets are always abandoning themselves, how he starts writing poems, and the best ways to find one's own poetry.

Victor LaValle’s Lone Women portrays a sisterhood in the early-20th-century American West.

Flux, a debut novel by alumnus Jinwoo Chong ’21, is out now from Melville House. 

Chariot, a fourth collection of poetry from Writing Professor Timothy Donnelly, is coming this spring from Wave Books. 

Former Adjunct Assistant Professor Cynthia Cruz has won the National Books Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Hotel Oblivion (Four Way Books, 2022).

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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.