Creative Writing Program News

Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap to deliver the 2024 Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature at Cornell University

The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture Series in Modern Indian Literature is made possible by a gift from the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Sumi Prabhu.

Hannah V Warren's Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales

Creative Writing Program's Hannah V Warren Debuts Poetry Collection, Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales

Creative Writing Program Graduate Student Hannah V Warren's full-length debut poetry collection, Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales, with Sundress Publications is “a visceral collection that is not only read but also felt in t

Dr. Jake Syersak

Creative Writing Program Graduate Jake Syersak Awarded Translation Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Creative Writing Program 2019 doctoral graduate Jake Syersak, a poet and translator, has been awarded a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, to support his translation from the French of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's The Unearther.

Shoulders-up photograph of LeAnne Howe with a pink jacket. She has short black hair.

Professor LeAnne Howe cited as "one of Native America’s greatest writers and theorists"

Book on Professor LeAnne Howe Receives Rave Reviews from Top Journals 

Nathan Dixon Wins Thirteenth Annual Short Fiction Prize

Nathan Dixon of the Creative Writing Program has been selected as the winner of the annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Read more about this exciting news from BOA Editions, Ltd. below:

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