Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
United States
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Join the National Book Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Cooper Union for the 2025 Science + Literature Ceremony, celebrating the three remarkable 2025 Science + Literature selected titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Selected authors Claire Wahmanholm for Meltwater, Ed Yong for An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, and Ramona Ausubel forThe Last Animal will join for readings and conversation. Learn more about the event here.
Claire Wahmanholm
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder, Redmouth, and, most recently, Meltwater, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and was a National Book Award Science + Literature selection. A McKnight Writing Fellow and the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she lives in the Twin Cities.
A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.”