Congratualtions to this year's recipients of the Whiting Award. Excerpts of their work can be found at The Paris Review Daily.
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations.
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss where survival and surrender are blurred.
Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner of the 2020 Whiting Award for Drama
Winner of the 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
Winner of the 2020 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
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Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.
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Named a "Best Poetry Book of 2019" by Electric Literature, Entropy Mag, and Auburn Avenue
Named a "Favorite Book of 2019" by Lit Hub
Named a "Best Queer Book of 2019" by BuzzFeed and Book Marks
Sisterhood is forever…whether you like it or not.
Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane’s deliciously addictive, voyeuristic exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what happens in a sorority house.
Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that h
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Poetry. Poetry and translations by Genya Turovskaya have been published in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Aufgabe, A Public Space, Octopus, Jubilat and others. Her recent translations include Elena Fanailova's THE RUSSIAN VERSION (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) and Aleksandr Skidan's RED SHIFTING (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007).