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Roa Lynn ’60 wrote a piece that appeared in The New Yorker earlier this summer about having lunch with Pablo Neruda in June, 1968, and the poem he wrote for her inspired by that meeting. Lynn links her memory of Neruda to hearing the news of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and an attempted murder she witnessed from the window of a bus while traveling in Argentina. 

Effy Redman '04 recently published a piece in The New York Times about growing up with Moebius Syndrome, a condition that renders her unable to smile or make most other facial expressions. In the article, Redman meditates on the difficulties she deals with as a person unable to participate in the many-layered and surprisingly vital social mechanism that is a simple smile. 

The Lost Girls, the debut novel of Heather Young MFAW '11, was published this summer by William Morrow. The Lost Girls, while not her first published work, is her first work of fiction. 

The buzz around Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair '10 continues to grow. The book, while still unpublished, has already been recognized by the Prairie Schooner Book Prize as their 2015 winner. Now, Cannibal appears Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016." 

The Imperial Wife, by Irina Reyn MFAW '06, has received widespread critical attention and praise, including an article and interview with NPR, and a review in the .