Alumni News

The novel manuscript by Gail Vida Hamburg (MFAW June '04), Liberty Landing, was a finalist in the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Hamburg workshopped the first 30 pages in a workshop at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø with Bob Shacosis workshop two summers ago.

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø MFA Writing Seminars graduate Megan Galbraith published an essay, titled "Sin Will Find You Out" in Catapult. The essay recounts her search for and conversation with her birth mother, who gave Galbraith up for adoption at six months old.

Summer Brennan '01 published an article, "The Invisible Black Man on a Prospect Park Statue" in New York Magazine.

Sheila Lewandowski '97, longtime arts advocate and co-founder of The Chocolate Factory, an award-winning incubator for experimental performance in Queens, New York, has been awarded the 2016 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College.

Michael Pollan '76 talks with The Guardian about his new Netflix series Cooked and his belief that through the "mere act of caring about provenance, our food would get better."