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Writing alum Laura Smyth ’89 has published a poetry collection, Fox Dreams. The book was released in November by Saint Julian Press, an interfaith imprint run out of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas.
How to Dodge a Cannonball, the second book from Writing alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dennard Dayle ’17 is being released in hardcover on June 17, 2025 from Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan.
Rev Publishing, founded by Writing alum Jessica Ciencin Henriquez '17, is on a mission to disrupt and redefine the publishing industry with new metrics for success and a determination to put writers at the center of everything they do.
On a Wednesday afternoon in Kent Hall, a dozen students stand in a circle outside the classroom, eyes closed, arms linked.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Alan Gilbert has published a new edition of his epic poem The Everyday Life of Design.
Professor Binnie Kirshenbaum (CC ’80) will be releasing her eighth novel, Counting Backwards, with Penguin Random House on March 25, 2025. The book follows a middle-aged couple confronted by illness—the husband’s descent into early-onset Lewy body dementia—and their final years together full of despair, humor, rage, and the moments of beauty that surround them all.
Lin King ’22 has won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature for her work translating Yáng Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue to English from its original Mandarin Chinese.
Crystal Hana Kim ’14 (CC’09) has been named a finalist for the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award for her novel The Stone Home. Kim’s novel is one of five titles selected as finalists from a pool of over 150 submissions.
Writing alum Karen Russell '06 has announced the release of her latest novel The Antidote, forthcoming from Knopf in Spring 2025. The book marks Russell's first novel since her bestselling debut Swamplandia!
Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.
In his debut poetry collection, Decay Studies (Six Gallery Press), alum Arthur Seefahrt ’14 extracts moments of silence out of beautiful noise.
In Our Likeness, a debut novel from writing alum Bryan VanDyke ’00, released on September 1 from Little A, a literary imprint of Amazon Publishing. The novel, a science fiction fable about the possibility and terror of new technology, reflects VanDyke’s own fascination with AI, a fascination that would directly help him sell the book.
