New books are out or are forthcoming from Literary Arts alumni.

Colin Channer has been honored by Poets & Writers as recipient of a Writers for Writers award for 2023. The award is given to writers who have been given generously to other writers and to literature more generally. Colin Channer, associate professor in Literary Arts, was recognized for co-founding the Calabash International Literary Festival, and supporting end encouraging writers from the African diaspora, the Americas, Europe and Asia, and helping readers in th Caribbean and worldwide discover an ever-growing body of literature.

Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Sawako Nakayasu is one of four co-translators awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2021 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work for their translation of Yi Sang: Selected Works, published by Wave Books.

A Literary Arts faculty member and an alumna have been short-listed for the 2021 National Book Awards.

Jay Gao MFA '22 reports that his debut poetry collection, Imperium, has been accepted for August 2022 publication by Carcanet Press.

Chibuihe Obi Achimba has been selected by the St. Botolp Club Foundation as an Emerging Artist of 2021.

Erica Hunt, Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Poetry, was interviewed in Poets & Writers Magazine about her new poetry collection, Jump the Clock, published in October by Nightboat Books.

“Gay in Nigeria, Black Male in America,” an opinion piece by Chibuihe Obi Achimba MFA ’22, was published in The New York Times on Saturday, Nov. 7. Chibuihe, who is studying poetry in the Literary Arts graduate program, was a 2019 – 2020 Scholar-at-Risk at Harvard University before matriculating at Brown.