Summer 2021
August 3, 2021: Joyce Carol Oates — The novel Breathe is published by Ecco/HarperCollins.
August 3, 2021: Aleksandar Hemon — His essay, “The Aquarium,” is published in The Contemporary American Essay anthology edited by Phillip Lopate.
July 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His ORB Lecture Series video interview on poetry and current affairs is published in The Oxford Review of Books.
June 2021: Kathleen Ossip — Her book, July, is published by Sarabande Books.
June 2021: Yusef Komunyakaa — He receives the 2021 Griffin Trust’s Lifetime Recognition Award.
June 2021: Yusef Komunyakaa — His new book, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, is published.
Summer 2021: Sheila Kohler — Her blog, “How to Create a Successful Villain,” is published in Ellery Queen’s Something is Going to Happen.
Summer 2021: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, Becoming Jane Eyre, is translated into Turkish and published by Yayinevi.
Summer 2021: Sheila Kohler — She gives a talk on her novel, Open Secrets, at the Devon Yacht Club Amagansett.
Summer 2021: Sheila Kohler — Her article, “How to Detect an Unsuitable Partner,” is published in Psychology Today.
Summer 2021: Daphne Kalotay — Her story “Heart-Scalded” is published in the Summer issue of Missouri Review.
Summer 2021: Idra Novey — Her new short story, “The Glacier,” is published in The Yale Review.
Summer 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He has an interview published in Poetry Wales.
Spring 2021
Spring 2021: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her book of poems, La raccolta di Nerina, is published by Guanda in Italy.
Spring 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poems are published in Ploughshares and Poetry London.
May 16, 2021: James Richardson — He received a President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching after 41 years on the faculty at Princeton.
May 4, 2021: Aleksandar Hemon — His story, “The Conductor,” is included in the Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story edited by John Freeman.
April 27, 2021: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her novel, Whereabouts, is published by Knopf.
April 6, 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, is published by Norton.
March 29, 2021: Yiyun Li — She is named among 18 recipients of 2021 Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
March 23, 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His essay, “Justice for the Negro Leagues Will Mean More Than Just Stats” is published as a feature story in The New York Times Magazine.
March 3, 2021: Sheila Kohler and A.M. Homes — The memoirs Once We Were Sisters by Kohler and The Mistress’s Daughter by Homes are included on a list of “35 Memoirs Everyone Should Read” by Reader’s Digest.
March 2021: Presidential Visiting Scholar and faculty member Hilton Als and Lewis Center Chair Tracy K. Smith are elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
February 9, 2021: Joyce Carol Oates — American Melancholy: Poems is published by Ecco/HarperCollins.
February 9, 2021: Joyce Carol Oates — A collection of short stories, The (Other) You: Short Stories, is published by Ecco/HarperCollins
February 2021: Monica Youn — Her poem “Detail of the Rice Chest” appears in Harpers.
February 11, 2021: Jhumpa Lahiri – She is named winner of the biennial John Florio Prize for Italian Translation for her English translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone.
February 10, 2021: Idra Novey — Lean Against This Late Hour, a collection of poems by Garous Abdolmalekian translated from the Persian by Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh, is named a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
February 4, 2021: Mona Kareem — Kareem, Princeton University’s Translator in Residence for fall 2020, is a recipient of a 2021 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship.
January-February 2021: Sheila Kohler – Her short story, “The Changing Room” is published in the Jan./Feb. 2021 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
January 25, 2021: Tracy K. Smith — Her newly commissioned poem, “Travels Far,” is featured in MTA citywide memorial for workers lost to COVID-19. The digital project appears within 107 of the system’s subway stations (in all five boroughs and online) through February 7, 2021.
January 13, 2021: Paul Muldoon — His poem “A Postcard from St. Barts” is published in Ploughshares Winter 2020-21 issue.
January 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poetry collection, Living Weapon, (published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020) will be published in the UK by Faber, marking Philips’ first publication in the UK.
January 2021: Monica Youn — Her 12-poem sequence “Study of Two Figures (Dr. Seuss / Chrysanthemum Pearl)” is published as a multimedia interactive poetry feature in The New Yorker online.
2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish a new version of his non-fiction book on African American poetry, When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness.
2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He is named President of the Board of The New York Institute of the Humanities and a board member of Aspen Words, a non-profit literary program of the Aspen Institute.
2021: Daphne Kalotay — Her fiction collection Vertigo and Other Stories won the 2021 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.
2021: Susanna Styron — International release of her film, Out of My Head.
Fall 2020
December 24, 2020: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, Open Secrets, is included among “The Best Books Vogue Editors Read in 2020.”
December 22, 2020: Tracy K. Smith — My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems, Yi Lei, translated by Smith from the Chinese with Changtai Bi, makes the PEN America Literary Awards longlist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
December 22, 2020: Idra Novey — Lean Against This Late Hour, a collection of poems by Garous Abdolmalekian translated from the Persian by Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh, makes the PEN America Literary Awards longlist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
December 22, 2020: Danez Smith —His poetry collection, Homie: Poems, makes the PEN America Literary Awards longlist for the PEN/VOELCKER Award for Poetry Collection.
December 2020: Yiyun Li – Her work, “The Reason Why,” is featured in The Yale Review Windham Campbell Prizes Issue.
December 1, 2020: Paul Muldoon — Irish Repertory Theater presents a virtual performance by Liev Schreiber of Muldoon’s “Plaguey Hill,” a Covid diary, as part of their digital fall season.
December 2020: Paul Muldoon – His work Binge (Lifeboat Press) wins the 2020 Michael Marks Award for the best poetry pamphlet published in the United Kingdom.
December 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Australian Book Review named Living Weapon among its best books of the year.
November 24, 2020: Jhumpa Lahiri – She is named a finalist for the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation for her translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone.
November 9, 2020: Yiyun Li – Her essay, “The Ability to Cry,” is published in the November 16 issue of The New Yorker.
November 5, 2020: Yiyun Li – Her review of Carmen Boullosa’s The Book of Anna is published in The New York Review of Books.
November 3, 2020: Tracy K. Smith — My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei, translated by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi, is published by Graywolf Press.
November 3, 2020: Sheila Kohler — Her story “Miss Martin,” which was in Cutting Edge edited by Joyce Carol Oates, is published in The Best American Mystery Stories 2020.
November 2020: Daphne Kalotay — Her book Blue Hours is named a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Fiction.
November 2020: Paul Muldoon — His latest book of poems in Swedish, Förstklassigt Aloeträ, translated by Lars-Håkan Svensson, is published by Ellerströms Förlag.
November 2020: Joyce Carol Oates – She is the recipient of the Carvalho Prize, a Spanish award for distinguished contribution to the “noir” tradition.
October 28, 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His essay, “Looking Back on Baseball’s Silent Season,” is published as a featured essay in The New York Times Magazine.
October 20, 2020: Paul Muldoon — The collection Dislocations: Selected Innovative Poems of Paul Muldoon, edited by John Kinsella, is published by Liverpool University Press.
October 13, 2020: Aleksandar Hemon — He is named the 2020 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature from Virginia’s Longwood University.
October 6, 2020: Joyce Carol Oates — Her book, Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas, is published by Grove Atlantic/The Mysterious Press.
October 6, 2020: Jenny Xie — She receives a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry.
October 2, 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Rumpus publishes a review of Phillips’ Living Weapon that situates the book squarely in this moment and also as the end of a trilogy.
October 1, 2020: Idra Novey — Her collaboration with visual artist Erica Baum, “Too Soon to Tell,” is published by Poetry Society of America.
September 9, 2020: Monica Youn — Her poem “Study of Two Figures (Pasiphae/Sado)” is published in The Best American Poetry 2020 (Edited by Paisley Rekdal, Simon & Schuster).
September 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His essay, “The 2020,” appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review.
Fall 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poem “Violins” appears in the Library of America’s forthcoming anthology Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters, edited by Kevin Young.