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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."

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, a novel by Assistant Professor Rivka Galchen, will be released by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on June 8, 2021.

Sweetgum & Lighting, a debut poetry collection by Alumnus Rodney Terich Leonard '18, will be released on February 15, 2021 by Four Way Books.

Interstate Highway System, a poem by alumnus Adam O. Davis '06 recently published in The Believer, has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry by alumna Tracy K. Smith '97.

Wild Pets, a debut novel by alumna Amber Medland '15, will be released on July 1, 2021 by Faber & Faber.

Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.

Ghost Letters, a collection of poetry by alumnus Baba Badji '15, was released by Parlor Press on January 1, 2021. Excerpts from Ghost Letters can be found here. 

Pen Parentis held its Annual Winter Poetry Salon last week, bringing together extraordinary poets with a virtual audience for a reading and roundtable discussion.

Student Series

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From Here to There

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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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Past Lives

by Jessie Shohfi

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