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White Rabbit Books recently published This Woman's Work, an essay collection that includes contributions from Professor and School of Journalism alumna Margo Jefferson and Professor Leslie Jamison.
Professor and School of Journalism alumna Margo Jefferson '71 was recently awarded a 2022 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize (Windham-Campbell Prize), one of the literature field's most esteemed awards.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the recipients of its highest honors for excellence in the arts, and Professor Phillip Lopate ’64 (CC) is among the honorees.
Penguin Random House recently published the memoir Constructing a Nervous System by Professor and School of Journalism alumna Margo Jefferson '71. The book is now available for pre-order.
Lambda Literary recently announced the 2022 finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards. Assistant Professor Hasanthika Sirisena was named a finalist in the category Bisexual Nonfiction for Dark Tourist (Mad Creek Books, 2021). Assistant Professor and alumna Gila Ashtor '20 was named a finalist in the category LGBTQ Studies for Homo Psyche (Fordham University Press, 2021).
Professor Wendy Walters helped shape “Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast,” which explores slavery and its legacies.
Nonfiction alumna Lacy Warner ‘16 recently debuted her first short documentary, A Journey of Sight: The Long Road Toward Curing River Blindness, with Epic Digital and Vox Media.
Nonfiction student Ye Odelia Lu and Fiction student Lin King are contributors to the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature, which will launch on July 26, 2021.
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses recently announced its shortlist for the 2021 Firecracker Awards, given annually "to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide."
An online School of the Arts event celebrates the new book’s reception with its editors, Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham.
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Associate Professor and LTAC Director Susan Bernofsky will be released on May 25, 2021 by Yale University Press.
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed author Terese Marie Mailhot to its Nonfiction Dialogues series earlier this month.