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Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 won the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry with their book Slingshot.
Current Writing student Taylor Michael was selected as the inaugural A Public Space Editorial Fellow. This new fellowship for aspiring editors aims to support the next generation of editorial talent and encourages a more diverse publishing community. She was chosen among almost 200 applications and began her work in March.
Adjunct Associate Writing Professor Benjamin Taylor’s new memoir Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth was published by Penguin Random House on May 19, 2020 to much praise.
We recently spoke with novelist and Associate Professor of Writing Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, Little Failure, and Lake Success, which the BBC called “biting, edgy, often hilarious.”
Monique Truong, an adjunct associate professor in the writing program, recently won the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her novel The Sweetest Fruits.
Writing alumna Jayme Koszyn ’18 was named a finalist in Fish Publications Flash Fiction Short List for her flash fiction short story, “In the Here and Now.” Out of the 1,238 stories submitted, only fifty made it to the short-list.
This July, Finishing Line Press will publish a new collection of poems by writing alumna Alison Woods ’96, titled Bless This Home.
Dear School of the Arts Admitted Students,
In this time of unparalleled anxiety and threat, it’s heartening to be able to write to you about the strength and resilience of the community you are about to join.
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.
