The Spanish-language translation of Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cielo nocturno con heridas de fuego) was released by Vaso Roto Ediciones on July 16, 2018.

The story collection, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart, is reviewed in Kirkus Reviews.  It is set to be released on September 18, 2018.  The book release party will take place in...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is launching a new Commission on the Arts. With distinguished cochairs, including UMass MFA alum and former Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha...

Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to Islamic State, has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, acclaimed by...

Nicholas Montemarano's (MFA'00) new novel, The Senator's Children (Tin House Books, Nov. 2017), was reviewed in the New York Times on Dec. 18, 2017.  Read the review here.

Dorothea Lasky's (MFA'04) new book of poetry, Milk, is reviewed by The Arkansas International and The Literary Hub.