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Writing Program Alumna Forsyth Harmon ‘13 (‘01 CC) was recently featured alongside fellow authors Melissa Febos and Lilly Dancyger in BOMB Magazine’s virtual series, A Room with a View.

Morgan Jerkins, known for her powerful nonfiction writing, turns to fiction with “Caul Baby.”

Constellations of Eve, a new novel by alumna Abbigail Rosewood '17, will be released through a collaboration between Texas Tech University Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in Spring of 2022.

I’m so honored to have been asked to address you all on this special day, and to offer a few thoughts on the occasion of this culmination, of your work and dedication, this end of sorts that’s actually really just a beginning.

Associate Professor of Writing Hilton Als, Associate Professor of Theatre David Henry Hwang, and Visual Arts Mentor Ralph Lemon were among those elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.

The Four Humors, a debut novel by fiction alumna Mina Seçkin '18 (CC '15), will be released by Catapult on November 9, 2021.

The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that alumnus Aaron Aceves '20 will be one of two early career fellows in Creative Writing.

Graduate students from Columbia’s School of the Arts and literary students from Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) met in April in a virtual format to read each other’s translated poetry.

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Associate Professor and LTAC Director Susan Bernofsky will be released on May 25, 2021 by Yale University Press.

Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed author Terese Marie Mailhot to its Nonfiction Dialogues series earlier this month. 


Las Biuty Queens, a story collection by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by alumna Hannah Kauders '20, will be released by Astra House on June 1, 2021. 

Baruch College recently announced that alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades '19 will serve as its Spring 2021 Sidney Harman Writing Fellow. 

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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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by Carlos Barragán

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by Jessie Shohfi

A series featuring Columbia writers who began their professional lives on different career paths.