# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2019-20
**Source**: https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/creative-writing/faculty-news-recognitions/faculty-news-recognitions-2019-20/
**Parent**: https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/creative-writing/faculty-news-recognitions/
#### Creative Writing Faculty News & Recognitions
Show Menu ×
# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2019-20 ---
## 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](https://nightheronbarks.com/summer-2020/rowan-ricardo-phillips/)” in their Summer 2020 issue.
**August 18, 2020**: Monica Youn — She appeared in [One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives](https://poets.org/one-poem-protest-reading-support-black-lives).
**August 14, 2020**: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — An [essay on his childhood memories of Antigua](https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-childhood-trip-to-antigua-that-shaped-me-as-a-traveler) was published in *Condé Nast Traveler*.
**August 3, 2020:** Sheila Kohler – Her essay, “[The Windmills of our Minds](https://theamericanscholar.org/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*](https://houseofteethfilm.com/).
**July/August 2020**: [Joyce Carol Oates](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/) — Her poems “[The Blessing](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153805/the-blessing-5ed6f66178e6e)” and “[That Other](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153806/that-other)” are published in the July/August edition of *Poetry* magazine.
**July 31 2020**: [Mark Doten](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/mdoten/) — 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](https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/hospice-honeymoon)” is published in *The New Yorker* as part of the summer’s online Flash Fiction series.
**July 28, 2020:** [Yiyun Li](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/yiyunl/) — Her novel, *Must I Go*, is published by Random House.
**July 20, 2020:** Yiyun Li — Her short story, “[Let Mothers Doubt](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/books/a33216000/fiction-let-mothers-doubt-by-yiyun-li-read-by-jessie-ware/)”, is published in *Esquire UK.*
**July 7, 2020**: Yiyun Li — Her short story, “[Under the Magnolia](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/yiyun-li-short-story.html)”, 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](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/inovey/) — Her short fiction piece, [“Harmony, Interrupted: How Will Live Music Return?”](https://chroniclesnow.com/stories/harmony-interrupted) is published in The Chronicles of Now.
**June 2020:** [Kirstin Valdez Quade](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/kvquade/) — Her short fiction piece [“Run: California Is on Fire”](https://chroniclesnow.com/stories/run) is published in The Chronicles of Now.
**June 2020**: [James Richardson](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jrich/) — His book of poems, *For Now,* is published by Copper Canyon Press.
**June 2020:** Susanna Styron — Her documentary film, [*Out of My Head*](https://www.outofmyheadfilm.com/), 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](https://bombmagazine.org/articles/rowan-ricardo-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](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/us-author-joyce-carol-oates-wins-coveted-french-prize/1854099).
**May 18, 2020:**[Jhumpa Lahiri](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jhumpalahiri/) — 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](https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/open-for-business/),” is published in*n+1*.
**April 2020**: [Idra Novey](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/inovey/) — Her co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian is published with Penguin Poets.
**April 14, 2020**: [Susanna Moore](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/susannam/) — Her memoir, *Miss Aluminum*, is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
**April 9, 2020**: [Michael Dickman](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/mdickman/) and [Yiyun Li](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/yiyunl/)— Creative Writing faculty members named [2020 Guggenheim Fellows](https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2020/04/lewis-center-faculty-members-receive-2020-guggenheim-fellowships/).
**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](https://windhamcampbell.org/).
**March 2, 2020**: Yiyun Li— Her novel, *Where Reasons End*, is announced winner of the 2020 [PEN/Jean Stein Book Award](https://pen.org/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*](https://paw.princeton.edu/article/creative-writing-apocalyptic-opera), 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 the*Yale Review*.
**December 2019:** Michael Dickman — His latest poetry collection, *Days & Days*, is listed among *The New York Times*‘ [Best Poetry Books of 2019](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/books/review/the-best-poetry-books-of-2019.html).
**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](https://lithub.com/26-books-from-the-last-decade-that-if-you-havent-read-you-should/).”
**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](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/prizes#levinson) 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”](http://colorinsidethelines2019.wordpress.com/) 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](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/t-magazine/mother-loses-son-travel-coping.html),” 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](https://www.aarome.org/)‘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*](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/on-the-fly)
**October 15, 2019**: [Jenny Xie](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jxie/) — 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](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/jhumpa-lahiri-reads-primo-levi), 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](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/tksmith/) — Smith receives the [2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry](https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/books/wade-in-the-water/?sortby=year) 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*](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-man-who-owned-me)
**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](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/734282),” 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.*