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The 2019 Firecracker Award for fiction was awarded last week to alumna Casey Plett ‘12 for her novel Little Fish, published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Professor Binnie Kirshenbaum’s new novel Rabbits for Food was named An Amazon Best Book of the Month for May 2019 and A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2019, and it's out now through SOHO Press.
Fiction alumnus Aaron Hamburger '01 has a new novel, Nirvana is Here, available through Three Rooms Press. An honest story about recovery and coping with both past and present, framed by the meteoric rise and fall of the band Nirvana and the wide-reaching scope of the #metoo movement, Nirvana is Here, explores issues of identity, race, sex, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. Intertwining stories are reminiscent of the tenderness and haunting nostalgia of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name blended with the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics.
Writing professors Susan Bernofsky, Ben Marcus, and current adjunct Mitchell S. Jackson have all been named 2019-2020 Cullman Center Fellows by The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman ‘15 is set for release through Random House on May 28. The book is available for preorder now.
Wunderland, a new novel by Fiction alumna Jennifer Cody Epstein '03, will be released April 23, 2019 through Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing. The book is an intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy.
Fiction alumna Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood '17 is set to release her debut novel, If I Had Two Lives, on April 9, 2019.
Current fiction student Francisco González was named a Glimmer Train finalist for his short story, Increments of Dust. He was also a finalist for Beloit Fiction Journal's 2019 Hamlin Garland Award for his short story Panda Express.
Over the past couple of weeks, Writing students, faculty and alumni have been busy publishing new work. Read more in our weekly roundup.
Over the past couple of weeks, Writing students, faculty and alumni have been busy publishing new work. Read more in our weekly roundup.