Faculty News & Recognitions: 2019-20
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Summer 2020
Summer 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poem “Prelude” was published by Yale Review as part of their new “Pandemic Files” feature.
Summer 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Night Heron Barks published his poem for George Floyd, “Screens” in their Summer 2020 issue.
August 18, 2020: Monica Youn — She appeared in One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives.
August 14, 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — An essay on his childhood memories of Antigua was published in Condé Nast Traveler.
August 3, 2020: Sheila Kohler – Her essay, “The Windmills of our Minds,” on reading Cervantes during the pandemic, is published in The American Scholar.
August 2020: Susanna Styron — At the MOM Film Festival, she received a Best Director nomination for her film House of Teeth.
July/August 2020: Joyce Carol Oates — Her poems “The Blessing” and “That Other” are published in the July/August edition of Poetry magazine.
July 31 2020: Mark Doten — His story, “Judith and Ahmed: A Story of Friendship,” is published in The Literary Review.
July 30, 2020: Joyce Carol Oates— Her story “Hospice/Honeymoon” is published in The New Yorker as part of the summer’s online Flash Fiction series.
July 28, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Must I Go, is published by Random House.
July 20, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her short story, “Let Mothers Doubt”, is published in Esquire UK.
July 7, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her short story, “Under the Magnolia”, is published as part of the Decameron Project by The New York Times Magazine.
July 7, 2020: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, Open Secrets, is published by Penguin Books.
June 2020: Idra Novey — Her short fiction piece, “Harmony, Interrupted: How Will Live Music Return?” is published in The Chronicles of Now.
June 2020: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her short fiction piece “Run: California Is on Fire” is published in The Chronicles of Now.
June 2020: James Richardson — His book of poems, For Now, is published by Copper Canyon Press.
June 2020: Susanna Styron — Her documentary film, Out of My Head, is available on DVD and streaming platforms.
June 11, 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Summer 2020 issue of Bomb Magazine contains an interview with Phillips by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo.
June 9, 2020: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poem “Fantasia in a Time of Plague” appears in the anthology Together in a Sudden Strangeness, edited by Alice Quinn and published by Knopf.
June 9, 2020: Joyce Carol Oates— Her novel, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., is published by HarperCollins.
June 2, 2020: Sheila Kohler – Her essay, “Camouflage,” is published in The American Scholar.
Spring 2020
May 26, 2020:Joyce Carol Oates — Oates is named winner of the Cino del Duca World Prize.
May 18, 2020:Jhumpa Lahiri — She is recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Pennsylvania at their 264th Commencement.
May 2020: Mark Doten — His story, “Open for Business,” is published inn+1.
April 2020: Idra Novey — Her co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian is published with Penguin Poets.
April 14, 2020: Susanna Moore — Her memoir, Miss Aluminum, is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
April 9, 2020: Michael Dickman and Yiyun Li— Creative Writing faculty members named 2020 Guggenheim Fellows.
April 6, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Where Reasons End, is a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Spring 2020:Boris Fishman — His new book, Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table, a family memoir told through recipes, is out in paperback from HarperCollins.
March 2020:Boris Fishman—His essay on the unexpected consequences of an unusual artist residency appears in the March 2020 issue of Travel + Leisure.
March 19, 2020: Yiyun Li — She is awarded one of the $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fiction.
March 2, 2020: Yiyun Li— Her novel, Where Reasons End, is announced winner of the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
February 2020:Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His next book of poems, Living Weapon, is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
February 7, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Where Reasons End, is on the longlist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
January 28, 2020: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Where Reasons End, is a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
January 8, 2020:A. M. Homes — In an interview with Princeton Alumni Weekly, Homes discusses writing her first libretto for the opera, Chunky in Heat.
Early 2020: Aleksandar Hemon — The Matrix 4, to be directed by Lana Wachowski, for which Hemon co-wrote the script with Lana and David Mitchell, presently in pre-production, goes into production.
Fall 2019
Fall/Winter 2019:Idra Novey — Her fiction appears in the Fall/Winter issue of theYale Review.
December 2019: Michael Dickman — His latest poetry collection, Days & Days, is listed among The New York Times‘ Best Poetry Books of 2019.
December 2019: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Where Reasons End, makes several top books of 2019 lists including TIME Magazine, New York Times, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and NPR
December 2019:Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The paperback edition of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, is published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
December 3, 2019: Yiyun Li — Literary Hub lists her novel Where Reasons End among “26 Books from the Last Decade that More People Should Read.”
November 2019: James Richardson — “Vectors 5:2: PG-50” and “Epilogue in Stone” published in American Poetry Review, November 2019, 10-12.
November 2019: Monica Youn — She is the winner of the Salmon O. Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, which is a prize awarded by the editors of Poetry Magazine for a poem published in the magazine.
November 21, 2019: Monica Youn — Featured speaker at “Color Inside the Lines: Race & Subjectivity in Contemporary American Poetry” conference event on November 21 at Rutgers University.
November 19, 2019: Paul Muldoon — His new collection of poems, Frolic and Detour (Farrar Straus & Giroux) is published.
November 18, 2019: Aleksandar Hemon — The Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Canadian national book award, for which Hemon was one of the jurors, is awarded in Toronto, Canada.
November 12, 2019: Yiyun Li — Her travel essay about the Aland archipelago, “A Mother Journeys Through Grief Across Finland’s Many Islands,” appears in The New York Times Style Magazine.
November 9, 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her story is published in The Cutting Edge, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
November 6, 2019:Jhumpa Lahiri — Honored at the American Academy in Rome‘s 125th Anniversary New York Gala for her outstanding commitment to scholarship and creativity.
November 5, 2019: Idra Novey — Her novel, Those Who Knew, comes out in paperback from Viking/Random House.
October 31, 2019: Aleksandar Hemon — Hemon’s book, My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You, is published in the UK on October 31 (Brexit Day). It came out in the US in June 2019.
October 25, 2019: Idra Novey — Her novel, Those Who Knew, named a finalist for the 2019 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize.
October 21, 2019: James Richardson — His poem, “On the Fly” appears in The New Yorker. Read the poem online in The New Yorker
October 15, 2019: Jenny Xie — As recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Xie receives an award of $5,000 and reads from her prize-winning work on October 15, 2019, at 7 p.m. in Richmond at the VCU Cabell Library.
October 1, 2019:Joyce Carol Oates— Her novel Pursuit (Mysterious Press) is published.
October 1, 2019: Joyce Carol Oates — Her story is published in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019.
October 1, 2019: Jhumpa Lahiri — For The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Lahiri reads and discusses “Quaestio De Centauris,” by Primo Levi, translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee, which appeared in a 2015 issue of the magazine.
October 2019: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He turns in the script for the full-length feature film, Clemente, which will be produced by Legendary Films and directed by “OJ: Made in America” creator Ezra Edelman.
October 2019: Joyce Carol Oates — Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (Akashic Books), edited and with an introduction by Oates, is published.
October 2019: Joyce Carol Oates — “A Theory Pre-Postmortem” (fiction) is published in Conjunctions: Earth Elegies.
October 2019: Yiyun Li — “Department of No Solution” (story) appeared in Zoetrope.
October 2019: Yiyun Li — Introduction to The Folio Great Short Stories, published by Folio Society.
October 2019: Kirstin Valdez Quade — She receives the Fred R. Brown Literary Award from the University of Pittsburgh.
September 26, 2019: Tracy K. Smith — Smith receives the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry for Wade in the Water at the official awards ceremony.
September 16, 2019: Tracy K. Smith — Her poem, “The Man Who Owned Me,” appears in The New Yorker. Read the poem online in The New Yorker
September 9, 2019: Jhumpa Lahiri — Trick by Domenico Starnone, translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri (Europa Editions), is included on 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) Shortlist.
September 2019: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His essay “The Jets, the Bills, and the Art of Losing” appears in The Paris Review Daily.
September 2019: Jhumpa Lahiri— Publication of The Penguin Book of Short Stories,edited and partially translated by Lahiri, which includes a translation of Italo Calvino born out of her Fall 2017 creative writing course, “To and From Italian.”
Fall 2019: James Richardson — “Incredulous Essay on Hummingbirds,” appears in New England Review 40:3 (2019), 131-133.
Fall 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her story called “The Teacher” appears in the Fall issue of Salmagundi.