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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.
Saint Joan of New York, by Writing alumnus Mark Alpert ’84, follows a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything.
Molly Bit, a debut novel by Writing alumnus Dan Bevacqua ’11 was published by Simon and Schuster on February 4, 2020.
Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter ’12 debuts her novel, Temporary, releasing on March 3 from Coffee House Press.
Godflower, a novella by alumnus Kevin Magruder ’15 will debut with the literary press Outpost 19, which specializes in short story publication. The book is scheduled for release on March 4, 2020.
PEN America recently announced finalists for the 2020 PEN Literary Awards, and Xuan Juliana Wang '11, Professor Leslie Jamison, and Ruchika Tomar '12 are among them. More information on their work can be found below.
A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love, a memoir by fiction alumna Katherine James ’06 was published by IVP Books in January, 2020.
Alumna Jessi Jezewska Stevens '18 will publish her debut novel The Exhibition of Persephone Q with Farrar, Straus and Giroux this March.