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The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that alumnus Aaron Aceves '20 will be one of two early career fellows in Creative Writing.
Las Biuty Queens, a story collection by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by alumna Hannah Kauders '20, will be released by Astra House on June 1, 2021.
Baruch College recently announced that alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades '19 will serve as its Spring 2021 Sidney Harman Writing Fellow.
In a virtual ceremony last night, PEN America announced the winners of their 2021 Literary Awards, conferring the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction to English and Comparative Literature Professor Saidiya Hartman for her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).
It Doesn't Have to be This Way, a debut novel by alumnus Alistair Mackay '18, has been picked up by South African publishing house Kwela Books, an imprint of NB Publishers.
Abundance, a debut novel by alumnus Jakob Guanzon '17, was released on March 2, 2021 by Graywolf Press to great critical acclaim.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Meiselman: The Lean Years, a novel by alumnus Avner Landes '10, was released last week by Tortoise Books.
Columbia College alumna Danielle Evans '04 was recently named one of four finalists for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, presented by The Simpson Literary Project, in a private ceremony.
Justine, a debut illustrated novel by alumna Forsyth Harmon '13 ('01 CC) was released by Tin House on March 2, 2021. The novel is available for purchase here.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Boom! Studios recently announced that Eve, a new five-issue original comic book series by Associate Professor and alumnus Victor LaValle '98 and artist Jo Mi-Gyeong, will be released in May of 2021.