Terrance Hayes's most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation's 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle […]
Catherine Barnett is the author of three collections, Human Hours (winner of the 2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry, a New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection, and a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Award), The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets), and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). In May 2024, Graywolf […]
Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic and Imagine Me Gone. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of […]
Rivka Galchen is an award-winning fiction, and long-form non-fiction writer, known especially for her interest in the relationship between fiction and science. Holding an MD, she has drawn on her understanding of scientific and clinical approaches to pursue questions about the relationship between fact and value, science and fiction, truth and deception in her writings. Her […]
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary […]
Born in Brooklyn, Martín Espada is the author of more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. A former tenant lawyer in the Greater Boston area's Latino community, he has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and JD from Northeastern University. Espada published his first poetry collection, The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero (Waterfront Press), in 1982. […]
The acclaimed novelist, Susan Choi, will read from her latest book, Flashlight, a Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub, as part of the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. Please note that this event has been postponed until March 2026. Author Megha Majumdar will now be reading on […]
Critically acclaimed author Megha Majumdar will read from her latest novel, A Guardian and a Thief, as part of the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. Megha Majumdar graduated from the Hunter MFA Creative Writing Program in 2011 and now teaches in it. Her book, A Guardian and a Thief, has just been long-listed for the National […]
Megha Majumdar is the author of the forthcoming novel A Guardian and a Thief, currently a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first book, the New York Times bestselling novel, A Burning, was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal. In India, it […]
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Glimmer Train, etc. A new poetry collection, Sugar, will be out in early 2026. Other books include The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024), Everything (Four Way, 2021), Nightshade (Four Way, 2019). Unfathoming (Four Way, 2017), Furs Not Mine (Four Way, 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Long Division (Salmon […]
