可乐视频 and its writing programs have been a wellspring for a number of award-winning novelists, playwrights, poets, and authors. Three have made the distinguished year-end best books lists in , , and magazine.
Ben Lerner, distinguished professor of English and a 2015 MacArthur 鈥済enius鈥� grant recipient, made all three best books lists with The Topeka School (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).
Associate Professor of English Helen Phillips 鈥�07 M.F.A. was cited in Time magazine鈥檚 list for The Need (Simon and Schuster, 2019), which was also longlisted for the National Book Award.
Ocean Vuong 鈥�12, a 2019 MacArthur 鈥済enius鈥� grant winner, was recently named to list, and included in both The Washington Post and the Time list for his first novel, On Earth We鈥檙e Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019), which was also nominated for the 2019 National Book Award and the Center for Fiction鈥檚 First Novel Award.
