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Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky and alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12 are two of this year’s recipients of the Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.
A new book by adjunct assistant professor Kate Zambreno, Drifts, will be released on May 19 by Riverhead Books.
Alumnus Matthew Gellman ’18 has been named one of Adroit Journal’s 2020 Djanikian Scholars in poetry.
If I Had Your Face, a novel by alumna Frances Cha ’11, was published last month by Ballantine Books of Random House. The book has been on multiple must-read lists.
Recent alumnus Daniel Pearce ’18 was recently named a 2020-2021 Steinbeck Fellow by San José State University.
Alumna Mary South '14 has published her debut collection of short stories, You Will Never Be Forgotten.
Alumnus Sam Ross ’13 recently won the 2020 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for his book, Company, published last February by Four Way Books.
On April 23, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members of 2020. Among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders inducted include Columbia University’s Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93.
We asked Nobel Laureate and Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Professor Orhan Pamuk what he is working on and what he is thinking about now. Remarkably, he has for some time been writing a new novel called Nights of Plague.
Beauty, a novel by alumna Christina Chiu '00, is being released this Friday, May 1, from 2040 Books/The Santa Fe Writers Project. The book follows Amy Wong, an up-and-coming designer in the New York fashion industry who is derailed again and again by the chauvinist workforce and familial expectations.
Alumnus Adam O. Davis ’06 will promote his forthcoming poetry debut Index of Haunted Houses with a hotline that allows curious readers to interact with the book, which itself is concerned with old telephone technologies. The collection is the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, from Sarabande Books.
The novel Empire City by alumnus Matt Gallagher ’13 is available for pre-order at Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports local, independent bookstores. Pre-orders begin shipping on April 28.
