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Nonfiction alum Raffi Joe Wartanian ’21 was named an Academy of American Poets 2025 Poet Laureate Fellow.

Fiction alum Emily Hunt Kivel '20 published her debut novel, Dwelling, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 5, 2025.

Writing alum and acclaimed journalist Joseph Lee '17 published his debut book, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity, through One Signal Press, a division of Simon and Schuster, on July 15, 2025.

Writing alum Eyal Cohen '21 will publish his debut book, Take the L, with Sentient Publications on August 5, 2025.

In her new book, Everyday Intuition, writer Elizabeth Greenwood ’13 delves into everything from psychology and neuroscience to psychics and psychedelics to determine what our inner voices are — and how we should use them.

Read Professor Anelise Chen’s hybrid memoir, Clam Down, to find out.

Fiction alum Amber Medland '15, author of the novel Wild Pets, has published her second book, nonfiction investigation Attention Seeker: The Truth about ADHD, with Dialogue Books.

By Karen Russell ’06SOA (Alfred A. Knopf).

Poetry student Diana Athena explores healing after loss in her debut poetry collection Echoes in Still Air.

By Jemimah Wei ’22SOA (Doubleday).

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.

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