Mary Gaitskill is the author of three novels, three books of short stories, and an essay collection. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To. Veronica was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and that same […]
Join us for an immersive experience and the premiere of the award-winning film Preschool to Prison, which exposes how children from black and brown communities, are unfairly labeled and funneled from school to prison for minor infractions. Trauma affects the whole collective, but so does Healing. Systemic change begins as an inside-out process. We will tend to […]
Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan is the author of four collections, most recently, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (WW Norton, 2023). His other books include The Cineaste (WW Norton, 2013), which Terrance Hayes described as "dazzling." Quantum Lyrics (WW Norton, 2007), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (WW Norton, 2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times, and Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), […]
Meet old friends or make new ones at the Ice Cream Social Final Welcome Week Event! Treat yourself to free ice cream and more giveaways! 8th Floor Dining Hall, East Building
Eula Biss is the author of four books: Having and Being Had (2020), On Immunity (2014), Notes from No Man's Land (2009), and The Balloonists (2002). Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has been recognized by a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. As a 2023 National Fellow […]
Join us for Hunter College's 3rd Annual Language Works Conference, where experts in translation and interpreting will come together to explore the changing landscape of language services in the digital […]
Come learn about the Philosophy Department, its classes, and its majors at a casual open house! Drop in to learn about majoring or minoring in Philosophy, and where our programs […]
Jennifer Egan's 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A […]
Kiese Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by The New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for […]
Laura Kasischke is the author of nine collections of poetry and seven novels. Kasischke was awarded the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst […]
