Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library.
Jennifer Eli Bowen is a writer, arts instructor, and editor.
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renowned author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting.
Henry David Thoreau is one of the most widely recognized names in American letters. Born in 1817, he wrote extensively on naturalism, transcendentalism, philosophy, global and American politics, and abolition.
Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow.
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.
Join Shilpi Suneja in conversation with Sana Harron at Newtonville Books to celebrate the launch of the newly packaged paperback, House of Caravans.
Join Ellen Wayland-Smith to discuss new book The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self. The author will be joined by Eula Biss, Lochlann Jain, and moderated by Maggie Nelson.
This discussion is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities’ “Book Chats” series, organized in partnership with the USC Writing Program, the Department of English, and the HEAL program at the Keck School of Medicine. Learn more and register here.
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara alongside Stephanie Choi, Matthew Gellman, Jimin Seo, and Sarah Ghazal Ali for the first program in Poets & Writers’s “The Luminous Life: Debut Poets Virtual Reading.” More information and registration information here.
