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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.
Alumnus Franz Nicolay '18 recently announced that his second book and first novel, Someone Should Pay for Your Pain, will be released in April 2021 by Gibson House Press.
This October, alumni Chris Molnar ’18 and Etan Nechin ’19 will publish Unpublishable, a collection from their notorious underground reading series of the same name at the POWERHOUSE ARENA.
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, the new novel by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08, was released by Platypus Press on September 1.
Just Us: An American Conversation, the new Literary Collection by Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93, was released on September 8 by Graywolf Press.
Recent alumna Lisa Foad ’20 has been named a finalist for the 2020 Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for her short story “Hunting.”
