Featured Faculty Publications
"Letters of the Alphabet Go to War," by Lesyk Panasiuk, translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky (1/2026)
Winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry: "The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems" by Patricia Smith (9/2025)
Works by Sheila Kohler, republished in Fall 2025 by Open Road.
"An Oral History of Atlantis" by Ed Park (7/2025)
"Fox: A Novel" by Joyce Carol Oates (6/2025)
"Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li (5/2025)
"The Float Test" by Lynn Steger Strong (4/2025)
"Flint Kill Creek," stories by Joyce Carol Oates (11/2024)
"Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa," edited by Nicole Sealey and John Murillo (11/2024)
"Joy in Service on Rue Tagore," poems by Paul Muldoon (9/2024)
"Soon and Wholly," poems by Idra Novey (9/2024)
"My Father's Name," a film by Susanna Styron (5/2024)
"Pacific Power & Light," poems by Michael Dickman (2/2024)
"Elsewheres," EP by Cielo Hemon, aka Aleksandar Hemon (12/29/23)
"Same Bed Different Dreams" by Ed Park (Penguin Random House, 11/23)
"The World and All That It Holds" by Aleksandar Hemon, winner of the 2023 Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine in France (2023)
"Lies and Sorcery" by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee (NYRB, 10/23)
"Wednesday's Child: Stories," by Yiyun Li (Macmillan, 9/23)
"I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton" by Lynn Melnick (Spiegel & Grau, 8/23)
"SAGE" by Marilyn Chin (W.W. Norton, 5/23)
"Standing in the Forest of Being Alive" by Katie Farris (Alice James Books, 4/23)
"The Lost Wife" by Susanna Moore (Knopf, 4/23)
"Take What You Need" by Idra Novey (Viking/Penguin Random House, 3/23)
"Unshuttered" by Patricia Smith (Northwestern University Press, 2/23)
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon (1/23, Macmillan)
"The Book of Goose" by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9/22)
"The Unfolding" by A.M. Homes (Penguin Random House, 9/22)
"The Castle of Perseverance" by Paul Muldoon; watercolors by Philip Pearlstein (Enitharmon Press, 11/22)
"Howdie-Skelp" by Paul Muldoon (11/21, Faber & Faber and Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
"The Lyrics" edited by Paul Muldoon (11/21, W.W. Norton/Liveright)
"The Ruins of Contracoeur" by Joyce Carol Oates (10/21, Swan River Press)
"Tolstoy Together" by Yiyun Li (A Public Space Books, 9/21)
2025-26 News & Recognitions
Spring 2026
February 2, 2026: Ed Park — His short story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
January 27, 2026: Yiyun Li — Her memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, wins the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
January 2026: Ilya Kaminksy & Katie Farris — Their co-translation of Ukrainian Poet Lesyk Panasiuk’s Letters of the Alphabet Go to War will be published by Sarabande books.
2026: Sheila Kohler — Her new book, Talent to Burn, is forthcoming from Open Road and her essay, “On Speaking Up,” will appear in Salmagundi.
Fall 2025
December 17, 2025: Lynn Steger Strong — Her novel, The Float Test, is included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2025.
December 10, 2025: Joyce Carol Oates — Her novel, Fox, is included in Harper’s Bazaar’s 10 Best Books of 2025 and Publishers Weekly Best Books 2025: Fiction.
December 7, 2025: Patricia Smith — Brooklyn Poets honors Smith at their 2025 Awards Gala.
December 2025: Patricia Smith — The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner/Simon & Schuster) is included in Publishers Weekly Best Books 2025: Poetry and NPR Books We Love 2025.
December 2025: Yiyun Li — Her memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025, New Yorker Best Books of 2025, TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025, NPR Books We Love 2025, and The Guardian’s Best Memoirs and Biographies of 2025, among others, and was named a “New Yorker Essential Read for 2025.”
December 2025: Ed Park — His story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, is included in TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 and NPR Books We Love 2025.
November 19, 2025: Patricia Smith — The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems wins the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.
October 20, 2025: Ed Park — A Public Space awards Park the 2025 Deborah Pease Prize, which was established in memory of one of A Public Space’s founders to honor a figure who has advanced literature and the arts.
October 7, 2025: Patricia Smith — The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.
October 7, 2025: Yiyun Li — Things in Nature Merely Grow is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
September 30, 2025: Patricia Smith — The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, is published by Scribner.
September 10, 2025: Yiyun Li — Things in Nature Merely Grow is longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
September 10, 2025: Patricia Smith — The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems is longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.
Fall 2025: Sheila Kohler — Six of her early books including Cracks, The Perfect Place, The House on R. Street, Stories from Another World, Crossways, Children of Pithiviers, and Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, are republished by Open Road.
Fall 2025: Ilya Kaminsky — His poetry collection Deaf Republic has been adapted for the international stage, with performances at Royal Court Theater in London and at Dublin Theater Festival.
Summer 2025
July 29, 2025: Ed Park — His collection of short stories, An Oral History of Atlantis, is published by Random House.
July 1, 2025: Paul Muldoon — He moves to emeritus status as he retires from the faculty of Princeton University.
June 17, 2025: Joyce Carol Oates — Penguin Random House publishes her latest work of fiction, Fox: A Novel.
2024-25 News & Recognitions
Spring 2025
May 20, 2025: Yiyun Li — Her memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
April 8, 2025: Lynn Steger Strong — Her novel, The Float Test, is published by Harper Collins.
April 3-15, 2025: Sheila Kohler — She is in residence at the American Library in Paris and gives a public lecture on April 8, 2025.
March 6, 2025: Ed Park and Jenny McPhee — Park and McPhee receive 2025 Arts and Letters Awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each writer is awarded $10,000 to honor and encourage creative work.
March 2025: Ilya Kaminksy — Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic was listed by the Atlantic Monthly among The Best American Poetry Books of the 21st century.
February 6, 2025: Paul Muldoon — He is bestowed with a Saoi of Aosdána title, an honor given for “singular and sustained distinction in the arts,” by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.
February 2025: Jenny McPhee — For her translation of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, she is winner of the 2024 John Florio Prize, given biennially for translations of full-length Italian language works and sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute.
Fall 2024
December 11, 2024: Joyce Carol Oates — Her story collection, Flint Kill Creek, is listed among recommended books for 2024 by The New Yorker.
December 4, 2024: Joyce Carol Oates — Her novel, Butcher, is listed among The Best Books of 2024 by Vogue.
November 26, 2024: Paul Muldoon — His poetry collection, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, is on the New York Times‘ list of 100 Notable Books of 2024.
November 5, 2024: Nicole Sealey — Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa, edited by Sealey and John Murillo, is published by Wesleyan University Press.
November 5, 2024: Joyce Carol Oates — Her new collection of stories, Flint Kill Creek, is published by Mysterious Press.
October 26, 2024: Jenny McPhee — She is winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2024 Italian Prose in Translation Award for her translation from the Italian of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante.
September 10, 2024: Paul Muldoon — His 15th collection of poetry, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, is published.
September 3, 2024: Idra Novey — Her book of poems, Soon and Wholly, is published by Wesleyan University Press.
September 2024: Idra Novey — Soon and Wholly is named a best new book of the month with Chicago Review of Books, reviewed by David Woo in LitHub‘s best poetry books of October, and featured in Poetry Magazine‘s podcast and in Orion magazine.
September 2024: Patricia Smith — She is the recipient of the Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant impact on the field of poetry.
September 2024: Joyce Carol Oates — She received Sjöjungfrun, or the Mermaid Award, a new Literary Prize at Europe’s celebrated Gothenburg Book Fair, held September 26-29 in Sweden.
2024: Sheila Kohler — She has an essay published in Salmagundi entitled “Fiction and Fantasy” and a story in The American Scholar called “Revenants.”
Summer 2024
July 11, 2024: Patricia Smith — She received the Fuller Award from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame for her outstanding lifetime contribution to literature.
June 2024: A. M. Homes — She went on a book tour in Barcelona to discuss the Spanish and Catalan translations of The Unfolding as well as the republication of In A Country of Mothers.
2023-24 News & Recognitions
Spring 2024
May 31, 2024: Susanna Styron — Her latest documentary short, My Father’s Name, premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival with a sold out screening.
May 2024: Jenny McPhee — She is shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation for her translation from the Italian of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante.
May 2024: Ed Park & Yiyun Li — Park’s novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, and Li’s short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, are named finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
May 2024: Sheila Kohler — She was a finalist for the Rome Prize at the American Academy and was nominated as writer in residence for 2025 at the American Library in Paris.
April/May 2024: Sheila Kohler — Her essay is included in “On the Couch: Writers Aanalyze Sigmund Freud” edited by Andrew Blauner and published by Princeton University Press.
April 19, 2024: Ed Park — His novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, is winner of the 2023 L.A. Times Book Prize in Fiction.
March 2024: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is one of five finalists for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and is featured as a monthly fiction pick by Barnes & Noble.
March 2024: Sheila Kohler — Her mystery story “Turnabout” is published in Ellery Queen’s.
February 21, 2024: Ed Park & Yiyun Li — Finalists for the L.A. Times Book Prize are announced, including Wednesday’s Child: Stories by Li and Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel by Park.
February 2024: Idra Novey — Her bestselling novel, Take What You Need, is available in paperback.
February 2024: Michael Dickman — His poetry collection, Pacific Power & Light, is published by Knopf.
February 1, 2024: Aleksandar Hemon — The World and All That It Holds is published in Germany as Die welt und alle was sie enthalt.
January 9, 2024: Yiyun Li — Her short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is named a finalist for the 2024 Story Prize.
January 2024: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.
Fall 2023
December 29, 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — His musical alter ego, Cielo Hemon, releases an EP entitled Elsewheres.
December 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — His poetry appears in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.
December 2023: Patricia Smith — Unshuttered is featured on the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books of 2023.
December 2023: Yiyun Li — Her short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is listed among the best books of the year by The New Yorker, New York Magazine’s Vulture, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, and Library Journal.
December 2023: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and makes several best of the year book lists published by the Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and NPR.
December 2023: Ed Park — His novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, makes best of the year book lists in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and Los Angeles Times.
December 2023: Susanna Moore — Her novel, The Lost Wife, is named among Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2023 and New Statesman’s Books of the Year.
November 28, 2023: Idra Novey — Take What You Need is longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.
November 27, 2023: Joyce Carol Oates — “Personal Statement,” a profile of Oates by Rachel Aviv, appears in the November 27 issue of The New Yorker.
November 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — BBC airs “To Odesa,” a series of his new essays about returning to Odesa, Ukraine, during the war.
November 2023: Yiyun Li — The Royal Society of Literature names Li among its 2023 International Writers, a life-long award that recognizes the contribution of writers across the globe to literature.
November 7, 2023: Ed Park — His novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, is published by Penguin Random House.
Winter 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, Refusenik, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
October 10, 2023: Jenny McPhee – Her new translation of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante is published by New York Review Books Classics.
October 3, 2023: Katie Farris — Her collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
September 27, 2023: Katie Farris is appointed associate professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts.
September 5, 2023: Yiyun Li — Her story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is published by FSG in the US and 4th Estate/Harper Collins in the UK.
September 5, 2023: Joyce Carol Oates — She is the editor of the collection A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, published by Akashic Books.
September 2023: Sheila Kohler — Her short story, “Sidney,” is included in the Akashic anthology A Deeper Shade of Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Her story “Revenants” appears in Fiction magazine.
Fall 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — His poetry is awarded Prix Alain Bosquet from Gallimard in France, is honored with Premio Laudomia Bonanni in Italy, and is shortlisted for 2023 Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns Internationella Litteraturpris in Sweden. In Ukraine, Kaminksy is awarded The Boris Dereviyanko “Ludi Dela” Civic Service award for his work in support of humanities during the war in the city of Odesa.
Fall 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — The World and All That It Holds is published in Norway, Italy and France, where it receives the 2023 Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine. His book, This Does Not Belong to You, is published in Slovenia.
Summer 2023
August 3, 2023: Idra Novey — Granta‘s online edition publishes her short story, “Conversations with My Father.”
August 2023: Idra Novey — The London Magazine publishes an excerpt from her novel, Take What You Need.
August 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, is published in paperback from Spiegel & Grau.
July 2023: Patricia Smith is the recipient of the 2023 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
June 2023: Joyce Carol Oates receives the 2023 Taobuk Taormina International Book Festival Award (Sicily).
Summer 2023: A. M. Homes — Her novel The Unfolding is longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice Prize.
2022-23 News & Recognitions
Spring 2023
Spring 2023: Joyce Carol Oates publishes two new fiction works: 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (Mysterious Press, March 2023) and Zero-Sum: Short Stories (Knopf).
Spring 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, Refusenik, was the winner of the Julie Suk Award.
May 8, 2023: Yiyun Li — Princeton University names Li a recipient of the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
May 2, 2023: Marilyn Chin — Her new book of poems, SAGE, is published by W.W. Norton.
April 2023: Katie Farris — Her first book of poetry, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is published by Alice James Books.
April 19, 2o23: Ilya Kaminksy — He is named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
April 15, 2023: Daphne Kalotay — Her story collection, The Archivists, is published by TriQuarterly Books.
April 4, 2023: Susanna Moore — Her novel, The Lost Wife, which received a starred Kirkus review, is published by Knopf.
April 4, 2023: Yiyun Li— The Book of Goose is announced winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
March 14, 2023: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is published by Viking/Penguin Random House.
March 7, 2023: Yiyun Li— The Book of Goose is named a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s most prestigious peer-juried literary prize.
March 7, 2023: Idra Novey — CBS New York’s Book Club names Idra Novey’s new novel, Take What You Need, among three “FicPicks” selected for audience voting through March 12.
February 21, 2023 — Yiyun Li elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.
February 15, 2023: Patricia Smith — Her poetry book, Unshuttered, a collection of dramatic monologues accompanied by 19th-century photos of African Americans, is published by Northwestern University Press.
February 2, 2023: Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose is longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
January 24, 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — His novel, The World and All That It Holds, is published by Macmillan.
January 5, 2023: Katie Farris — Three original poems are published by The Rumpus.
January 2023: Idra Novey — Her new novel, Take What You Need, receives a starred Kirkus review and is named a most anticipated book of 2023 by Vulture, Today and elsewhere.
January 2023: Kathleen Ossip — Her poem “The Facts” is selected for The Best American Poetry 2023.
Winter 2023: Daphne Kalotay — Her short story “A Guide to Lesser Divinities” is published in the Winter 2023 (#60) issue of Harvard Review.
Winter 2023: Sheila Kohler — Her novel Dreaming for Freud is published in Serbian (March). Her book Cracks, which was made into a film with Eva Green, is reissued with Open Road (January).
Fall 2022
December 2022: Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose is featured as a Best Book of 2022 with many publications, including The New Yorker, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Slate, LitHub, Book Page, LA Times, and elsewhere.
November 2022: Paul Muldoon — His new book, The Castle of Perseverance (with watercolors by Philip Pearlstein), is published by Enitharmon Press.
October 2022: Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose is selected for the longlist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
September 20, 2022: Yiyun Li — Her fifth novel, The Book of Goose, is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
September 6, 2022: A. M. Homes — Her latest novel, The Unfolding, is published by Viking-Random House.
Fall 2022: Daphne Kalotay is awarded a 2023 Art & Science Residency from the Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Fall 2022: Idra Novey — Her short story “The Glacier” won a 2022 Pushcart Prize and is included in the next Pushcart Prize anthology.
Fall 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her short story, “Sydney,” is included in the Akashic anthology A Darker Shade of Noir: Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Fall 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her essay on Freud as a fiction writer is forthcoming in “On the Couch.”