# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2021-22

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# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2021-22 ---

## Summer 2022

**Summer 2022**: [Kirstin Valdez Quade](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/kvquade/) — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, represents New Mexico at the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival.

**June 2022**: [Joyce Carol Oates](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/) — Her collection of stories, [*Extenuating Circumstances: Selected Stories*](https://penzlerpublishers.com/product/extenuating-circumstances/), is published by Mysterious Press.

**June 2022:** [Paul Muldoon](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/muldoon/) — His pamphlet of new poems, *Sure Thing*, is published by The Lifeboat Press.

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## Spring 2022

**May 22, 2022**: [Idra Novey](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/inovey/) —Her piece about poet-novelists and Mieko Kawakam, “Each Sentence Is One You Can Feel,” is published in *The Atlantic.*

**May/June 2022**: [Sheila Kohler](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/skohler/) — Her story, “A Secret Country,” is published in [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine](https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/current-issue/).

**May 17, 2022**: [Jhumpa Lahiri](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jhumpalahiri/) — Her book *[Translating Myself and Others](https://press.princeton.edu/news/jhumpa-lahiri-translating-myself-and-others)* will be published by Princeton University Press. The collection will include several essays, both previously unpublished and previously published, that reflect on Lahiri’s experiences with translation, self-translation, and writing across languages.

**May 16, 2022**: [Yiyun Li](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/yiyunl/) — PEN/Faulkner Foundation selects Li as the winner of the [2022 PEN/Malamud Award](https://www.penfaulkner.org/2022/05/16/yiyun-li-wins-the-2022-pen-malamud-award-for-excellence-in-the-short-story/) for Excellence in the Short Story.

**April 28, 2022**: Yiyun Li and [Patricia Smith](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ps4841/) — Li and Smith [elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.](https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/04/yiyun-li-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/)

**April 13, 2022**: [Patricia Smith](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ps4841/) — Her poem, “Still Wielding My Useless Shovel,” is published in the Spring 2022 issue of *Ploughshares*.

**March 15, 2022**: [Kirstin Valdez Quade](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/kvquade/) — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, is shortlisted for the [Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction](https://lambdaliterary.org/2022/03/2022-lambda-literary-award-finalists/).

**March 11, 2022**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

**March 5, 2022**: [A.M. Homes](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/homes/) — *Rise*, the opera that Homes co-wrote with composer and instrumentalist Kamala Sankaram, [opens at the Kennedy Center](https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2021-2022/written-in-stone/). Bringing to life the often forgotten 1921 Portrait Monument featuring Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, and one face left uncarved, Sankaram and Homes give a voice to those whose stories have been left out of history.

**February 25, 2022**: Patricia Smith — Poets.org chose one of Smith’s poems, “[The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon](https://poets.org/poem/sun-mad-envious-just-wants-moon),” as its Poem-of-the-Day on Friday, Feb. 25.

**February 25, 2022**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, is announced a finalist for the Aspen Words Prize.

**January 26, 2022**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, is named a finalist for the [PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2022-pen-america-finalists/).

**Spring 2022:** Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Constancy of Things,” is published in *The American Scholar*.

**Spring 2022**: Patricia Smith — She wins the [2022 Golden Rose](https://nepoetryclub.org/contests/golden-rose/), one of America’s oldest literary prizes, from the New England Poetry Club. The ceremony is held on July 17, 2022, at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, a National Historic Site in Cambridge, MA.

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## Fall 2021

**Fall 2021**: [Sheila Kohler](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/skohler/) – Her short story, “The Third Party,” is published in *Salmagundi.*

**Fall 2021**: [Yiyun Li](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/yiyunl/) — Her story, “The Buttercup Mousetrap,” is published in *Zoetrope: All-Story.*

**Fall 2021**: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, *Dreaming for Freud*, is sold to Arete Publishing House in Serbia.

**December 2021**: [Kirstin Valdez Quade](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/kvquade/) — Her debut novel, *The Five Wounds*, is shortlisted for the [2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction](https://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/carnegie-medals/2022-winners).

**December 2021**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — *The Five Wounds* is longlisted for the [2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2022-pen-america-longlists/).

**December 2021**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Media outlets including NPR, *Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly*, Goodreads, and Booklist add her novel, *The Five Wounds,* to their best book lists for 2021.

**December 8, 2021:** Kirstin Valdez Quade — She is announced winner of [The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize](https://centerforfiction.org/kirstin-valdez-quade-wins-the-the-center-for-fiction-2021-first-novel-prize-for-the-five-wounds/) for *The Five Wounds*.

**December 6, 2021**: [Rowan Ricardo Phillips](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/rrp2/) — His collection *Living Weapon* is named among *The Guardian*‘s “[Best Poetry Books of 2021](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/06/the-best-poetry-books-of-2021).”

**December 2021**: [Kathleen Ossip](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ko8070/) — Her book of poems, *July,* is named a [Best Book of 2021 by NPR](https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2021).

**December 2021**: [Aleksandar Hemon](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ahemon/) — The film, *The Matrix: Resurrection* (directed by Lana Wachowski), for which he co-wrote the script, is slated for release. It premieres in San Francisco on Dec. 18; wide release is Dec. 22, 2021.

**November 16, 2021**: [Paul Muldoon](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/muldoon/) — His fourteenth collection of poems, *Howdie-Skelp*, is published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.

**November 10, 2021**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, *The Five Wounds*, is longlisted for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

**November 10, 2021**: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, *Open Secrets*, is longlisted for the [2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize](https://www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/2022-joyce-carol-oates-prize-longlist) with the New Literary Project.

**November 9, 2021**: [Jhumpa Lahiri](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jhumpalahiri/) — *Trust*, an English translation of the novel *Confidenza* by Domenico Starnone, is published by Europa Editions in the USA and UK.

**November 9, 2021**: [Nicole Sealey](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/nsealey/) — She wins the inaugural [Granum Foundation Prize](https://www.granumfoundation.org/news/granum-prize-winner-announced-lpm22) for her book-length poem *The Ferguson Report: An Erasure*.

**November 8, 2021**: Yiyun Li —  “[Hello, Goodbye](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/hello-goodbye),” is published in *The New Yorker.*

**November 4, 2021**: Nicole Sealey — She is announced the winner of a 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem: ‘Pages 22-29, An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure’.

**November 2, 2021**: Paul Muldoon — Beatles star Paul McCartney’s autobiography, *The Lyrics* — edited by Muldoon — is published in the US by W.W. Norton/Liveright.

**October 2021**: [Joyce Carol Oates](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/) — Her collection of stories, [*The Ruins of Contracoeur*](http://www.swanriverpress.ie/title_contracoeur.html), is published in Ireland.

**September 16, 2021:** Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poem, “November Nocturne” from his book of poems, *Living Weapon*, is included in the [*Forward Book of Poetry 2022*](https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571369409-the-forward-book-of-poetry-2022.html). The anthology brings together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes; Phillips’ poem was selected as “Highly Commended” in the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry.

**September 14, 2021**: Joyce Carol Oates — Her story, “Parole Hearing,” is reprinted in *The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021*, edited by Lee Child.

**September 9-13, 2021**: [Susanna Styron](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/styron/) — Streaming release of her feature documentary, [*9/12: From Chaos to Community*](https://912film.com/), in honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

**September 2021:** Yiyun Li — Her book, *Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li*, is published.

**September 2021**: [Patricia Smith](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ps4841/) — She is named recipient of the [2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-lilly).