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Minna Zallman Proctor '98 has won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese.
Harrison Hill '19 has recently published his debut work of nonfiction, The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Associate Professor Wendy S. Walters has been awarded an Independent Project Grant from the NYSCA and Architecture League.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Miranda Mazariegos '25 has been awarded a 2025 Granum Foundation Translation Prize, awarded each year to support US-based translators as they complete a work of translation into English.
Elena Dudum '23 has been awarded a prestigious work-in-progress grant from the Whiting Foundation for her memoir, They Told Me The Way Back Home Would Be Beautiful. The book is forthcoming from One Signal Publishers.
Nonfiction alum Sasha Bonét '16 has published a debut memoir, The Waterbearers, with Alfred A. Knopf.
The Eternal Forest, a debut memoir by Writing alum Elena Sheppard '20, will be making its way to bookshelves on September 30, 2025.
Writing alum and acclaimed journalist Joseph Lee '17 published his debut book, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity, through One Signal Press, a division of Simon and Schuster, on July 15, 2025.
Writing alum Eyal Cohen '21 will publish his debut book, Take the L, with Sentient Publications on August 5, 2025.
In her new book, Everyday Intuition, writer Elizabeth Greenwood ’13 delves into everything from psychology and neuroscience to psychics and psychedelics to determine what our inner voices are — and how we should use them.
Writing alum Naomi Falk ’17 published her debut book, The Surrender of Man, in April 2025 with independent press Inside the Castle.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Lecturer in Discipline Lars Horn about his unconventional journey from language loss to writing, his teaching philosophy, and the value of embracing specificity.