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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.
Back in February, we were pleased to announce that three Columbia writers were finalists for the PEN America Literary Award, one of them being alumna Ruchika Tomar ’12.
Great American Desert, a collection of short stories by alumna Terese Svoboda '78, is a finalist for the Foreword Book Award.
As if nature were mirroring her own erratic life, the unnamed narrator of The Inland Sea by alumna Madeleine Watts ‘19 careens headlong into a spree of self-destructive behavior in her native Australia surrounded by an eerie ecological nightmare of brush fires, flooding, and suffocating heat.
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Current student Nicole Caplain Kelly has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
A baffling illness led alumna Sarah Ramey ’07 into a near two-decade-long medical odyssey constantly frustrated by physicians who did not recognize her symptoms.
Magma, a novel by Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir, translated by alumna Meg Matich ’15, will be published simultaneously in the US, by Grove Atlantic, and the UK, by Picador. Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir, a translator and UNESCO grantee, said of Matich’s work, “Matich’s translation of Hjörleifsdóttir’s piercing tale of abuse verges on the poetic. She makes the prose come to life in a way that feels personal, an urgent tale told in confidence to the reader.” In Matich’s capable hands, the work in English speaks with humane urgency and lyrical power—the blood pressure of the book—while…
Valley of Empty Pockets, a book of poetry by alumnus Eric Helms ’12, will be published by Main Street Rag Press in April of 2020.
Winner of the Diode Editions’ poetry contest, The Minister of Disturbances by alumnus Zeeshan Khan Pathan ’18 has received advance praise from such noted American poets as Edward Hirsch, who called the book a “passionately lyrical and deeply probing book of disturbances and dispossessions, of longing, quest and exile.” Poet Mary Jo Bang called the poems “brilliantly edgy.”
