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Alumni Matthew Gellman ’18, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, and E. J. Koh ’13 were named among the 2023 Creative Writing Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Four Way Books is set to publish If Some God Shakes Your House by Writing alumna Jennifer Franklin '96 in March.

Thirst for Salt, a debut novel from Adjunct Associate Professor Madelaine Lucas ’19, is forthcoming from Tin House in March of this year. 

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea, with support from the Korean Ministry of Culture, awarded alumna E. J. Koh ’13 the 2022 Translation Grand Prize in recognition of her translation of Yi Won's poetry collection, The World's Lightest Motorcycle, alongside the poet Marci Calabretta.

Constructing a Nervous System (Pantheon Books, 2022), the latest memoir by Professor Margo Jefferson, is among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Translations by Adjunct Assistant Professor Megan McDowell, former Adjunct Assistant Professor Julia Sanches, and Writing alumna Hannah Kauders '20 are on the shortlist for this year’s Premio Valle Inclán, an annual prize for translators of full-length Spanish works. 

My Pinup, a two-part memoir from Associate Professor Hilton Als, was recently released from New Directions Publishing. 

All the Lies They Did Not Tell, a work of true-crime by Pablo Trincia and translated from the Italian by alumna Elettra Pauletto ’17, was recently published by Amazon Crossing.

The School of the Arts Professor has published back-to-back works of fiction this fall.

By Eve Glasberg
December 02, 2022

Nights of Plague was well underway when COVID struck, but the pandemic influenced the book all the same.

Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Writing Matthew Salesses about writing myths, how to properly conduct a workshop and why successful writers are never the most talented.

Two projects from Columbia filmmakers took home prizes at the 2022 Gotham Awards.

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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.