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This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing BK Fischer '97 about cranberry morphemes, plasticity, and tap dancing.
Joana Urtasun '22 has published a translation of Between Fish Scales by Basque poet Leire Bilbao.
Writing alum Eduardo Martínez-Leyva '15 has won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, one of the most prestigious awards in contemporary poetry, for his debut collection, Cowboy Park (2024), out with University of Wisconsin Press.
Poet and scholar Aaron Poochigian '16 is the 2025 winner of the Anahid Literary Prize, an annual prize given to an emerging Armenian-American writer to celebrate Armenian culture and talent.
Chinese-American poet and Writing alum Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 is this year’s recipient of The Frost Medal awarded by Poetry Society of America.
Minna Zallman Proctor '98 has won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese.
Poetry alum Jaia Hamid Bashir '20 published her debut collection of poetry, The Afterlife of Sweetness, this past February after the book received the Charles B. Wheeler Prize in 2024.
Carlie Hoffman '19 has been awarded the Mid Atlantic Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Joining faculty, students, and friends in the audience of the Lenfest Center for the Arts the evening of February 12, were several ghosts. Read more about this recent event featuring poet Forrest Gander.
Writing alum Dolapo Demuren '17 was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a national award from America's oldest poetry organization which includes publication of his manuscript, American Love Sonnets.
Poetry alum Isabella DeSendi '17 has published her debut full-length poetry collection, Someone Else’s Hunger, with Four Way Books.
Triage, the newest book from Writing alum Claudia Rankine '93, will be making its way to bookshelves on August 4, 2026.