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On Thursday, The Center for Fiction announced the winners of their 2020 NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship, among them alumnae Raluca Albu '18 and Sasha von Oldershausen '19.
Last week, the Poetry Society of America announced that alumnus Nathan Xavier Osorio '16 won a 2020 30 & Under Chapbook Fellowship.
Poetry Alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15 pays tribute to former undergraduate writing student, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient, Louise Glück through a meditation on her poetry of transformation and the power of reading it in a global pandemic.
Healer of the Water Monster, a middle-grade chapter book by Fiction Alumnus Brian L. Young '19, will be released by Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins, on May 11, 2021.
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed Maggie Nelson to its Nonfiction Dialogues series last month.
Theatre Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Writing Alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 and Ge Gao ’17, and Visual Arts Alumni Vivianne Chiu ’19, Alison Taylor ’05, Elif Uras ’03, and Writing Assistant Professor Shane McCrae were all named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows for 2020.
Early this morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature to former undergraduate writing student Louise Glück.
Yankelevich is the author of Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt, Alpha Donut, Boris by the Sea, and several chapbooks, including: Writing in the Margin, The Present Work, The Nature Poetry of Matvei Yankelevich, and Bending at the Elbow. His translations of the eccentric early 20th century writer Daniil Kharms appeared in Harpers, The New Yorker, and Open City, among others, and were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University, and has taught at the Russian Department…
Through the New Body, the chapbook with which Alumna Isabella DeSendi '17 won the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship has been published by the Poetry Society of America and is available for pre-order now.
The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2020 National Book Award today—among them alumna Mei Mei Berssenbrugge '73 for her book of poetry, A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020).
Alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades '19 recently signed a two-book deal with Random House for her debut novel, Brown Girls, and a forthcoming novel.
This week, the Center for Fiction announced that Adjunct Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '19 has been shortlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize for her novel, Temporary (Coffee House Press, 2020).
