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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).
Associate Professor and Director of the Translation program Susan Bernofsky took part in the 2020 Translating the Future conference last week, which was co-sponsored by the PEN Translation Committee, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Bernofsky is an award-winning literary translator, and she has translated the works of Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Uljana Wolf, and others.
The American Literary Translators Association recently announced that alumna Shoshana Akabas '18 is among the recipients of its 2020 Virtual ALTA Travel Fellowship.
New America recently announced its class of 2021 National Fellows, among them alumnus Daniel Bergner '89 who has been named a 2021 New Arizona Fellow.
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced September 10, 2020 that Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 is among the five winners of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
On Sep. 15, the novel The New Wilderness by Writing alumna Diane Cook ’12 joined the 2020 Man Booker Prize shortlist, having made the longlist earlier this summer.
Alumnus Jeff Elzinga '78 recently released his debut novel, The Distance Between Stars, through Water's Edge Press. The book is available for purchase here.
Professor and alumna from the Journalism program Margo Jefferson ’71 sat down with Associate Professor Deborah Paredez and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey for a poetry reading and conversation reflecting on memory and the role we call daughter.
