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A much anticipated second novel by alumna and Adjunct Associate Professor Hannah Assadi ’13 (CC ’08) is available now from Riverhead Books. 

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Assistant Professor Rivka Galchen recently made the longlist for Canada Reads.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux recently published Immediate Family by alumna Ashley Nelson Levy '12. Immediate Family is now available for purchase.

Alumnus Ryan Elliott Smith ‘14 will be publishing Fly Over This: Stories from the New Midwest with Tortoise Books on April 12, 2022. The book is now available for pre-order.

Meghan Flaherty ’13 has been named a 2022 Ignite Fellow by the Scottish Book Trust.

Sanaë Lemoine ’15 and Yvonne Woon ’10 (’06 CC) have been named 2022 Creative Writing Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor Porter Fox recently published The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World with Little, Brown, and Company. The book is now available for purchase.

In balancing authenticity with readability, translators tackle a seemingly impossible art — and rarely receive enough credit.

A debut novel by alumna Jessamine Chan ’12 is on sale now in the US & Canada with Simon & Schuster. UK publication will follow on March 3, 2022. 

A debut novel from alumna Kayla Maiuri ’16 is available for preorder from Riverhead Books.

Assistant Professor Wes Enzinna has been awarded the Richard J. Margolis Award for 2021. 

Madeleine Cravens, a second-year student in the Poetry concentration, was recently awarded first place in Narrative’s annual poetry contest for her submission of five poems. 

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