News
Pulitzer prize winner, former poet laureate, Poetry alum, and current professor at Harvard, Tracy K. Smith '97 has published a new book, Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, with Norton Press.
In collaboration with Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), The Narrative Justice Project has selected three MFA Writing students—Britt Middleton, Rachel Mikita, and Jessica Hoppe—as the inaugural New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation Justice Reads Fellows.
2024 National Book Award for Translation winner and Writing alum Lin King '22 has sold her debut novel, WEEB, to Henry Holt books.
Writing alum Skyler Melnick '24 has been selected as a Center For Fiction / Susan Kamil 2026 Emerging Writer Fellow.
Writing alum Anika Jade Levy '23 has published her debut novel, Flat Earth, earlier this month with Catapult Books.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing and Fiction alum Hannah Lillith Assadi '13 will publish her third novel, Paradiso 17, with Knopf in March 2026.
Writing alum Naima Coster '15 has just announced the forthcoming release of her third novel, Take What You Can, with Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Viking (Penguin).
Writing alum Jean Kyoung Frazier '18 has joined the writing room for HBO’s newest show, I Love LA.
Writing alum Hannah Kauders '20 will publish a new translation of Fátima Vélez’s novel, Galapagos this December with Astra House, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Writing alum Aaron H. Aceves '20 was awarded the 2025 Judith A. Markowitz Award for an Exceptional New LGBTQ Writer from Lambda Literary, a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBTQ+ stories for over thirty-five years.
Poetry Concentration Head and Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will publish her latest book, Memory, with Semiotext(e) on November 4, 2025.
Writing alum Eduardo Martinez-Leyva '15 has been awarded the 2025 Lammy Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry for his book Cowboy Park (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024).
