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Poetry student Diana Athena explores healing after loss in her debut poetry collection Echoes in Still Air.
Writing Professor Gary Shteyngart has announced the release of his latest novel Vera, or Faith, forthcoming from Random House in July 2025.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Jeremy Tiang will publish their translation of Zhang Yueran’s Women, Seated, in August with Riverhead Books.
From Mariam Rahmani '21, John McWhorter, and other Columbia authors.
Writing alum Carlie Hoffman ’16 published her third book of poetry, One More World Like This World, with Four Way Books in March.
Writing alum Naomi Falk ’17 published her debut book, The Surrender of Man, in April 2025 with independent press Inside the Castle.
Writing alum Jemimah Weh ’22 has been named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35.
Writing alum and former adjunct faculty member Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17 has been appointed Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), a prestigious nonprofit that supports literary translators nationwide.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Lecturer in Discipline Lars Horn about his unconventional journey from language loss to writing, his teaching philosophy, and the value of embracing specificity.
Writing alum Kimberly King Parsons '10 has won the 2025 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the Oregon Book Awards for her debut novel We Were the Universe (Knopf, 2024).
Columbia University School of the Arts alum Marie Howe ’83 has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company).
