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Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky and alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12 are two of this year’s recipients of the Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.
A new book by adjunct assistant professor Kate Zambreno, Drifts, will be released on May 19 by Riverhead Books.
If I Had Your Face, a novel by alumna Frances Cha ’11, was published last month by Ballantine Books of Random House. The book has been on multiple must-read lists.
Recent alumnus Daniel Pearce ’18 was recently named a 2020-2021 Steinbeck Fellow by San José State University.
Alumna Mary South '14 has published her debut collection of short stories, You Will Never Be Forgotten.
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.
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.
Homeland Elegies, a forthcoming novel by alumnus Ayad Akhtar ’02, was named one of The New York Times' "20 Books We're Watching For in 2020."
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.
Current student Nicole Caplain Kelly has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.