Richie Narvaez was named a 2024 Letras Boricuas Fellow, in a cohort comprising twenty Puerto Rican authors whose work spans a host of diverse literary genres and styles. Fellows are awarded unrestricted grants of $25,000 each to support their literary practice and provide opportunities to connect and learn across cohorts.
Joseph Earl Thomas published an essay in The Paris Review.
Julia Phillips’ novel Bear was published in June 2024 by Hogarth, and was a National Bestseller, a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and one of the most anticipated books of the summer by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, People, Vulture, Elle, Bustle, LitHub, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Electric Lit, and WBEZ Chicago. She was interviewed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, CBS News, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.
Joseph Earl Thomas’ novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer was published in June 2024 by Grand Central Publishing, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick and longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, as well as received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.
Dennis Nurkse’s (published as D. Nurkse) poem “The Age of Miracle Weapons” was published in The New Yorker
Elvia Wilk was featured on the Momus Podcast
Heather Harpham was named the Strachan Donnelley Visiting Professor in Environmental Writing.
Rattawut Lapcharoensap was granted tenure at Sarah Lawrence College.
Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel The Second Coming was published in May 2024 by Knopf and profiled in The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Interview Magazine
R. A. Villanueva’s poetry collection A Holy Dread was named a winner of the 2024 Alice James Award and will be published in February 2026
Elvia Wilk and Kate Zambreno published a conversation “A Light in Dark Times” with Pioneer Works Broadcast
Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems was published in April 2024 by W. W. Norton, which was profiled on NPR
Patricio Ferrari published a folio of new poems in The Brooklyn Rail
Marie Howe’s poem “The Hymn” was published in The New Yorker
Lincoln Michel’s story “Werewolf at Dusk” was illustrated by David Small, published by W. W. Norton in March 2024
Kate Zambreno was interviewed about the reissue of Heroines (Semiotext[e], March 2024) in Cultured Magazine
Marie Howe’s poem “A Certain Light” (From What the Living Do, W. W. Norton, 1997) was featured on The Slowdown Podcast guest-hosted by Victoria Chang
Hala Alyan’s poetry collection The Moon That Turns You Back was published in March 2024 by Ecco Press and received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly
Elvia Wilk published an article “The Art of Decolonization” with Pioneer Works Broadcast
R.A. Villanueva's poem “This dark is the same dark as when you close” was featured in Poem-a-Day on January 9, 2024
Kate Zambreno was interviewed by Katy Waldman for Persons of Interest at The New Yorker on the occasion of The Light Room and the Heroines reissue.
Victoria Redel’s poem “Pleasure” (From Paradise, Four Way Books, 2022) was featured on The Slowdown Podcast hosted by Major Jackson
David Ryan’s story “Horse With Tornado” was published in the Georgia Review Winter 2023 issue
Lincoln Michel published an article “The Year That A.I. Came for Culture” in The New Republic
Kate Zambreno’s book Tone (co-authored with Sofia Samatar) was published in November 2023 by Columbia University Press
Lincoln Michel was featured on The Kurt Vonnegut podcast and published a short story “The Pond God” in McSweeney’s Issue 71: Horror Stories, guest-edited by Brian Evenson
Afaa M. Weaver was awarded the 2023 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a lifetime achievement honor in poetry
Dennis Nurkse’s (published as D. Nurkse) poem “End of Summer in the Foothills” was published in The New Yorker
Timothy Kreider published a guest essay in The New York Times
Kate Zambreno published a story for the exhibition catalogue of Tove Jansson’s Paris art retrospective, inspired by The Summer Book, in The Paris Review Daily
Kate Zambreno’s book The Light Room was published in July 2023 by Riverhead Books, for which she was profiled by Brian Gresko and on the cover of Poets & Writers
Afaa M. Weaver was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award
Patricio Ferrari’s translation (with Margaret Jull Costa) of The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa was published by New Directions (July 2023)
Garth Risk Hallberg published an essay in LitHub on the TV adaptation of his novel City on Fire
Marie Howe was in conversation with poet Charif Shanahan “on Ecopoetics, Spirituality, and Losing Oneself” on The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Dennis Nurkse's (published as D. Nurkse) poem “The Dim Tenements” was published in the May 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine
Meredith Talusan received a Creative Capital Award and MacDowell Fellowship for fiction in 2023
R.A. Villanueva’s live story “Offerings” was featured in “The Push and the Pull” episode of The Moth Radio Hour
Kate Zambreno’s essay “Winter Zoo” was published in The Yale Review
David Ryan’s story “Elision” (published in the New England Review) won a 2023 O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Kate Zambreno’s afterword of Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo was published at The Baffler.
Afaa Weaver’s poetry collection A Fire in the Hills was published in April 2023 by Red Hen Press and subsequently awarded the The 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize
Marie Howe’s poem “Reincarnation” was published in The New Yorker in March 2023
Lincoln Michel’s story “The Last Serving” was published in Lightspeed
Meredith Talusan’s short story “Crosscurrents” was published in the Bellevue Literary Review issue 43, and interviewed
Violet Kupersmith’s novel Build Your House Around My Body was a finalist for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Kupersmith was also awarded an 2022 NEA Fellowship in Prose.
Carolyn Ferrell’s novel Dear Miss Metropolitan was a finalist for both the 2022 PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2022 PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction. Ferrell was also awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022.
Dennis Nurkse’s (published as D. Nurkse) A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems was published in April 2022 by Knopf
David Ryan Wins O. Henry Prize for Warp and Weft,”.
Victoria Redel's new poetry collection was published in 2022
New Fiction from Meredith Talusan: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sentences.
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi is praised as "political speculative fiction at its finest" in a starred review by Publishers Weekly.
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden MFA ‘12 has been nominated for the 2019 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book by the National Book Critics Circle.
An excerpt from Stephen O’Connor’s novel-in-progress is in the current issue of Harper's.
Myla Goldberg is a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards for ther novel, Feast Your Eyes.
Afaa Weaver is the recipient of the 2019 Art and Literature Medal from the Chinese Writers’ and Artists’ Association.
Tina Chang’s new collection, Hybrida, was named one of the Best Books of 2019 by Publisher's Weekly in the category of poetry along with Ilya Kaminsky, Jericho Brown, Brenda Shaughnessy, and the late Jane Mead.
David Ryan has two new published stories: “Double Blind” at SmokeLong Quarterly and “Heirloom” at the Kenyon Review.
Appendix Project by Kate Zambreno received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Stories from Screen Tests: Stories and Essays, which will be published by Harper Perennial in July, will be included in the Spring issue of Paris Review.
“With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding” by Tina Chang is featured on The New York Times Modern Love Column.
Improvement by Joan Silber '67 has been listed among The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2018.
Carol Zoref, the director of the Writing Center, has won the Ribalow Prize for her novel Barren Island.
“A Feeling Artist” by Lincoln Michel is now available in the winter 2018 issue of The Paris Review.
“Black Box” by David Ryan is now available on Conjunction’s online magazine.
Mary LaChapelle's "Saab Story" was listed in The Best American Short Stories 2018 under "Other Distinguished Stories of 2017."
“The Tomb of Wrestling” by Jo Ann Beard appears in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2018.
Kathleen Hill’s memoir, She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons, has just come out in paperback. It has received a Nautilus Book Award.
Tina Chang’s forthcoming poetry collection, Hybrida, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2019. Her writing has been published recently in PEN’s Mythology Issue, the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day series, anthologized in Brian Turner’s The Kiss anthology among other anthologies, and New York magazine. Her work will also be appearing in the NYC transit system as part of the Poetry-in-Motion series co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America.
Barren Island by Carol Zoref has been shortlisted for the 2018 Harold U. Ribalow Book Prize.
Melissa Febos MFA ’08 was awarded the inaugural Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary.
David Ryan’s story "Black Sun" has been published in Juked. His forthcoming work includes "The Stag Beetles" in Bellevue Literary Review and "Black Box" in Conjunctions.
Recent work by Kate Zambreno includes “Introductions by Kate Zambreno—A collaboration between B. Ingrid Olson and Kate Zambreno” in Bomb Magazine, “Accumulations (Appendix F)” in The White Review, and “Stills/Faces” in Affidavit.
Carolyn Ferrell’s story, “A History of China,” was chosen by editors Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2018.
Joan Silber ’67 won the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel, Improvement.
“Mozart’s Final Hour” by D. Nurkse was published in the February 2018 issue of The New Yorker.
Recycle is a collaboration between Sarah Gerard and writer/collage artist Amy Gall. The book features 42 original collages bookending an in-depth "collaged" conversation and is available for preorder through Pacific.
sam sax is a recipient of the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris was released in April 2018.
Monica Youn was named a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection, Blackacre.
Barren Island by Carol Zoref was awarded the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction in the National Jewish Book Awards.
Marie Howe has been appointed a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets.
The essay “Stick Control” by Jacob Slichter appeared in a recent issue of the online journal 1966.
Love in the Last Days by D. Nurkse was published in Fall 2017.
Poet Matthea Harvey was awarded a fellowship from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in the category of creative arts for 2017.
Kevin Pilkington's collection, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems, was a 2017 IPPY Award Medalist in Poetry.
David Hollander MFA '97 published a short story, Ghostwritten, on The Collagist.
David Ryan’s latest book, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked, has been published by Ig Publishing.
Nicole Dennis-Benn MFA ’12 was featured in TimeOut’s Get to know immigrants who are putting their stamps on NYC.
Monica Youn was recently awarded the William Carlos Williams Award by the Poetry Society of America.
D. Nurkse has current poetry in a number of journals, including “Midwinter” in Ploughshares, “The School of Loneliness” in Kenyon Review, and “Poetry Recital,” “Half-Finished Houses,” and “Narva” in The Manhattan Review.
Monica Youn was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
Leigh Newman recently had a story featured in The New York Times' Modern Love podcast.
Blackacre by Monica Youn was longlisted for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award.
Tina Chang and Nicole Dennis-Benn MFA '12 shared their thoughts on the 2016 election in Art in the Wake of Trump.
Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings was featured as a 2016 notable work of fiction by The Washington Post.
The Washington Post named Monica Youn’s Blackacre one 2016's best poetry collections.
Serendipity, the podcast by Ann Heppermann, was named in New York magazine's list of "20 Great Podcasts."
"Rise Up" by Martha Southgate was published in The American Scholar.
"The Birth of a Nation" by Vinson Cunningham was published in The New Yorker.
Monica Youn has been longlisted for the National Book Award for her collection, Blackacre (Graywolf Press).
Nelly Reifler's story, History Lesson, is available as an audiobook thanks to McSweeney’s and Audible.
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor received rave reviews from The Washington Post: “It’s heartbreaking. It’s cathartic. It’s utterly brilliant.”
Congratulations to James Hannaham for winning the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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