# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2018-19

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# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2018-19 ---

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## Summer 2019

**Summer 2019:** Joyce Carol Oates — “Mr. Stickum” (fiction) appears in the new, reconstituted and “woke” *Playboy.*

**August 27, 2019:** Sheila Kohler — Her story, “Cracks,” is published online in *Paris Review Redux.*

**July 2019**: Kirstin Valdez Quade — She reads John L’Heureux’s story, “The Long, Black Line,” for *The New Yorker* podcast. [Listen to the podcast](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/kirstin-valdez-quade-reads-john-lheureux)

**July 2019**: Daphne Kalotay — Her novel *Blue Hours* (TriQuarterly Books) is published.

**June 2019**: Aleksandar Hemon — As a naturalized U.S. citizen, he is recognized among ‘[Great Immigrants](https://www.carnegie.org/awards/great-immigrants/2019-great-immigrants/)’ for his contributions to American society by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

**Summer 2019**: Joyce Carol Oates**—***The Triumph of the Spider Monkey* (novella) is reprinted by Hard Case Crime with a new cover by iconic pulp fiction artist Robert McGinnis.

**Summer 2019**: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Cure,” is published in *Speak Magazine,* Issue 3.

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## Spring 2019

**Spring 2019**: Sheila Kohler — Her essay titled “Dostoevsky” is published in *The Antioch Review,* Vol. 77

**Spring 2019**: Daphne Kalotay — Her story “Providence” is published in *Missouri Review.*

**May 2019**: Tracy K. Smith — She receives the [2019 Harvard Arts Medal](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/01/u-s-poet-laureate-tracy-k-smith-94-to-receive-harvard-arts-medal/?utm_source=Lewis+Center+for+the+Arts&utm_campaign=537a043408-LCA_MAY_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acc2f4aa48-537a043408-174697197), awarded to recognize excellence and demonstrated achievement in the arts by a Harvard or Radcliffe alumnus/a or faculty member.

**May 2019**: Simon Armitage — During his time as Holmes Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Armitage is [named the United Kingdom’s next Poet Laureate](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48228837).

**May/June 2019**: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Darling,” published in *Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine*

**March 19, 2019:** Michael Dickman — His collection of poems, *Days & Days*, is published by Penguin Random House.

**March 2019**: Yiyun Li — Her story, “All Will Be Well,” appears in *The New Yorker.* [Listen to Li read the story or read online at *The New Yorker*](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/all-will-be-well)

**March 2019**: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He wins the [2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing](https://pen.org/2019-winners/?utm_source=Lewis+Center+for+the+Arts&utm_campaign=6a0aab64e3-LCA_MAR_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acc2f4aa48-6a0aab64e3-174697197) for *The Circuit*, his nonfiction sports narrative on the 2017 men’s professional tennis season.

**February 2019**: Joyce Carol Oates — She wins the [2019 Jerusalem Prize](https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/01/joyce-carol-oates-is-named-the-2019-jerusalem-prize-winner/?utm_source=Lewis+Center+for+the+Arts&utm_campaign=f2efc6a2df-LCA_FEB_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acc2f4aa48-f2efc6a2df-174697197), which honors writers whose work evokes “The Freedom of the Individual in Society,” by Jerusalem International Book Forum.

**February 2019**: [Erika L. Sanchez](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/erikasanchez/) — She receives a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

**February 2019**: Yiyun Li — Her novel, *Where reasons End*, is published by Random House (North America) and Hamish Hamilton (UK and Commonwealth).

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## Fall 2018

**December 2018**: [Simon Armitage](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/sa18/) — During his time as Holmes Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Armitage is awarded the [2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/19/simon-armitage-wins-queens-gold-medal-for-poetry-2018).

**December 2018**: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her English translation of *Trick* by Domenico Starnone makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Translation.

**December 2018**: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His work of nonfiction, *The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey*, makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Literary Sports Writing.

**December 2018**: Jenny Xie — Her poetry collection, *Eye Level*, makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Open Book Award.

**December 2018**: Tracy K. Smith — Her collection, *Wade in the Water*, included on *The New York Times*‘ [Best Poetry of 2018 annual list](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/books/review/best-poetry.html?).

**November 6, 2018**: Idra Novey — Her novel, *Those Who Knew*, is published by Viking/Random House. The book is chosen as a November 2018 Indie Next Paperback Pick by the American Booksellers Association.

**November 2018**: Yiyun Li— Her memoir, *Dear Friend from My Life I Write to you in Your Life,* is a finalist for Le Prix Medicis, France.

**November 2018**: Tracy K. Smith — Her collection, *Wade in the Water*, included on *The New York Times*‘ [100 Notable Books of 2018 list](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/19/books/review/100-notable-books.html?).

**October 1, 2018**: Yiyun Li — Her story, “When We Were Happy We Had Other Names,” appears in *The New Yorker.* [Listen to Li read the story or read online at *The New Yorker*](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/when-we-were-happy-we-had-other-names)

**September 2018**: [Terrance Hayes](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/th18/) — His collection, *American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin*, included on longlist for [National Book Award in Poetry](https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2018/?cat=poetry).

**September 2018**: Jenny Xie — Her collection, *Eye Level*, included on longlist for [National Book Award in Poetry](https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2018/?cat=poetry).

**September 2018**: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her English translation of *Trick* by Domenico Starnone included on longlist for [National Book Award in Translated Literature](https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2018/?cat=translated-literature).

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## Summer 2018

**July 2018**: [Phil Klay](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/pklay/) — Awarded the [2018 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters](https://www.americamagazine.org/magazine/2018/07/05/phil-klay-named-2018-hunt-prize-winner) (for outstanding work in the category Cultural & Historical Criticism by Saint Thomas More: The Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University and the directors of America Media) for his short story collection, *Redeployment*.

**June 2018**: A. M. Homes — Penguin Random House publishes her third short story collection, *Days of Awe*.

**Summer 2018**: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “Monsieur André,” is published in *Fiction* no. 63