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Writing alum Antoinette Cooper '20 examines the experiences of Black women's bodies in her debut poetry collection Unruly (Legacy Book Press, 2025).
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced this year’s Literature Fellowships, with Columbia represented in both Creative Writing and Translation.
The Ocean in the Next Room, a poetry collection by alum Sarah V. Schweig ’09, has been published by Milkweed Editions.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Emily Skillings ’17 has a new book of poems, Tantrums in Air, out June 17, 2025 from publisher The Song Cave.
Alum Dolapo Demuren ’17 discusses his journey as an artist and creator.
Writing alum Laura Smyth ’89 has published a poetry collection, Fox Dreams. The book was released in November by Saint Julian Press, an interfaith imprint run out of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Alan Gilbert has published a new edition of his epic poem The Everyday Life of Design.
Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.
In his debut poetry collection, Decay Studies (Six Gallery Press), alum Arthur Seefahrt ’14 extracts moments of silence out of beautiful noise.
Poetry student Calleja Smiley Welsh has been awarded the inaugural Richard Howard Memorial Prize in Poetry, named after late Writing professor and beloved mentor Richard Howard.
In The Glittering Maw, a translation by writing alumna C. Francis Fisher ’23 of Syrian-Jewish surrealist poet Joyce Mansour, will be published by World Poetry in May 2024.
Pleasure Principle, a debut poetry collection by writing alumna Madeleine Cravens ’22, will be published by Scribner in June, 2024.