Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction—Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and […]
The Spring 2019 Distinguished Writers Series concludes with a special reading by Monica Youn. Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Blackacre, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts […]
Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books - six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books , two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short […]
Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize. It was named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the […]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's debut short-story collection Friday Black was a New York Times best seller, an L.A. Times best seller and a Boston Globe best seller. It won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was a finalist a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Gardner Award, among others. Adjei-Brenyah […]
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a nonfiction books The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, Appropriate: A Provocation and Intimate, and six books of poetry, most recently Nightingale. She is the recipient of multiple honors and in 2019 was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College kicks-off its Spring 2020 programming with Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Lisa Brennan-Jobs' debut memoir Small Fry -- describing her life growing up as the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs -- attracted widespread critical acclaim, including in The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, The Wall St Journal and The New York […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College welcomes Mary Ruefle. Poet and essayist Mary Ruefle is the author of books including Dunce, which was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, The Most Of It, Madness, Rack, Honey and A Little White Shadow. She was Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College welcomes Jia Tolentino. Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Formerly, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, went to University of Virginia and […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College welcomes Laila Lalami. Laila Lalami is the author of four novels including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Other Americans, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a best-of-2019 […]
