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Something New Under the Sun, the second novel by alumna Alexandra Kleeman '12, will be published by Hogarth Press and released on August 3, 2021.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor and Fiction Concentration Head Victor LaValle about his forthcoming novel Lone Women, how Zoom has changed the classroom dynamic, and how routine can be more important than talent.
Writing alumnus Lytton Smith ’07 has published two books: The Square, a chapbook of poems about protest movements (New Michigan Press) and On Time and Water, a translation of a groundbreaking Icelandic book about climate change (Open Letter).
In a new volume, Professor Phillip Lopate gathers three centuries of American essays.
HarperCollins India recently announced that their prestigious Fourth Estate Imprint would be publishing a debut novel by alumna Naheed Phiroze Patel '16.
Nonfiction Alumna Kao Kalia Yang '05 recently published two books, Somewhere in the Unknown World (Metropolitan, 2020)—a collective refugee memoir—and The Most Beautiful Thing (Carolrhoda Books, 2020)—a picture book based on Yang's own experience as a young Hmong refugee.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has commissioned a poem by Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith 97 for its COVID-19 memorial, which honors the more than 100 MTA employees who have lost their lives to the virus.
Author Rachel Cusk is the latest distinguished writer to join the Creative Writing Lecture Series. Second-year Fiction student Matthew Humphreys had the opportunity to introduce Cusk at the event.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Recently the National Endowment for the Arts announced the recipients of its 2021 Creative Writing Fellowships, naming among them alumna Robin Beth Schaer '05.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research library of The New York Public Library in Harlem, compiled a Black Liberation Reading List "in response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives."
