News
Award winning novelist and Writing alum Sigrid Nunez '75 is set to publish her first collection of short stories this summer with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Writing alum Dolapo Demuren '17 was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a national award from America's oldest poetry organization which includes publication of his manuscript, American Love Sonnets.
Steppe, a novel translated from the Russian by Elina Alter '16, was published January 20, 2026 with Catapult Press.
Writing alums Karen Russell '06 and Henri Cole '82 have earned the distinction of finalists for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Acclaimed Fiction alum Emma Cline '13 will publish her third novel, Switzy, with Random House in September 2026.
Poetry alum Isabella DeSendi '17 has published her debut full-length poetry collection, Someone Else’s Hunger, with Four Way Books.
Triage, the newest book from Writing alum Claudia Rankine '93, will be making its way to bookshelves on August 4, 2026.
Parul Kapur '89 has won the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award for her debut novel, Inside The Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024).
First year Fiction student Shanley Jane Kearney will publish her debut novel, QUANT, with Simon and Schuster's Simon Six imprint in spring 2027.
Associate Professor Wendy S. Walters has been awarded an Independent Project Grant from the NYSCA and Architecture League.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Miranda Mazariegos '25 has been awarded a 2025 Granum Foundation Translation Prize, awarded each year to support US-based translators as they complete a work of translation into English.
Elena Dudum '23 has been awarded a prestigious work-in-progress grant from the Whiting Foundation for her memoir, They Told Me The Way Back Home Would Be Beautiful. The book is forthcoming from One Signal Publishers.
