# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2020-21
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# Faculty News & Recognitions: 2020-21 ---
## Summer 2021
**August 3, 2021**: [Joyce Carol Oates](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/) — The novel *Breathe* is published by Ecco/HarperCollins.
**August 3, 2021**: [Aleksandar Hemon](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ahemon/) — His essay, “The Aquarium,” is published in [*The Contemporary American Essay* anthology](https://penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9780525567325) edited by Phillip Lopate.
**July 2021**: [R](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/rrp2/)[owan Ricardo Phillips](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/rrp2/) — His ORB Lecture Series video interview on poetry and current affairs is published in *The Oxford Review of Books*.
**June 2021**: [Kathleen Ossip](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ko8070/) — Her book, [*July*](http://www.sarabandebooks.org/titles-20192039/july-kathleen-ossip), 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](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/skohler/) — Her blog, “[How to Create a Successful Villain](https://somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2021/07/28/how-to-create-a-successful-villain-by-sheila-kohler/),” 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](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreaming-freud/202107/how-detect-unreliable-partner),” is published in *Psychology Today*.
**Summer 2021**: [Daphne Kalotay](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/dkalotay/) — Her story “Heart-Scalded” is published in the Summer issue of *Missouri Review*.
**Summer 2021**: [Idra Novey](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/inovey/) — Her new short story, “[The Glacier](https://yalereview.org/article/the-glacier),” is published in *The Yale Review*.
**Summer 2021**: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He has an interview published in [*Poetry Wales*](https://poetrywales.co.uk/product/poetry-wales-57-1-summer-2021/).
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## 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](https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/05/16/four-faculty-members-recognized-outstanding-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*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606179/the-penguin-book-of-the-modern-american-short-story-by-edited-by-john-freeman/) edited by John Freeman.
**April 27, 2021**: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her novel, [*Whereabouts*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659511/whereabouts-by-jhumpa-lahiri/), 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](https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2021-literature-award-winners/) 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](https://www.rd.com/list/memoirs-everyone-should-read/)” by *Reader’s Digest.*
**March 2021**: Presidential Visiting Scholar and faculty member [Hilton Als](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/hiltonals/) and Lewis Center Chair [Tracy K. Smith](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/tksmith/) 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](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/).
**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](https://www.curbed.com/2021/01/mta-nyct-coronavirus-memorial-covid-19.html) 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*](https://outofmyheadfilm.com/).
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## Fall 2020
**December 24, 2020:** Sheila Kohler — Her novel, *Open Secrets*, is included among “[The Best Books *Vogue* Editors Read in 2020](https://www.vogue.com/article/best-books-vogue-editors-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](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-longlists/) 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](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-longlists/) for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
**December 22, 2020:** [Danez Smith](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/danezsmith/) —His poetry collection, *Homie: Poems*, makes the [PEN America Literary Awards longlist](https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-longlists/) for the PEN/VOELCKER Award for Poetry Collection.
**December 2020**: [Yiyun Li](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/yiyunl/) – Her work, “[The Reason Why](https://yalereview.yale.edu/reason-why),” is featured in *The Yale Review* Windham Campbell Prizes Issue.
**December 1, 2020:** Paul Muldoon — Irish Repertory Theater presents a [virtual performance](https://irishrep.org/event/irish-rep-online-2020/plaguey-hill-a-new-work-by-paul-muldoon/) 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](https://michaelmarksawards.org/awards-2020/shortlists2020/) 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](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/928-survey/7118-books-of-the-year-2020).
**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](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/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*](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/11/05/kareninas-children/) 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](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cj-box/best-american-mystery-stories-2020/).*
**November 2020:** [Daphne Kalotay](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/dkalotay/) — 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](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/) – 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](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/magazine/covid-baseball.html),” 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](http://www.longwood.edu/news/2020/aleksandar-hemon-2020-dos-passos-prize-winner/) 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](https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jxie/) — 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*](https://therumpus.net/2020/10/living-weapon-by-rowan-ricardo-phillips/) 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.