Cornell Creative Writing Program News Today

Isaac Salazar is an English major.

Date Time Cornell poet’s play “Trap Door” opens an aperture into Ithaca history “Trap Door,” a “headphone walking play” that opens May 20 in downtown Ithaca, invites audiences to notice the streets they travel, said Cornell poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. “Meandering these streets, one might happen upon a landmark site or a name easily recognized. But how many stories go untold? Which ones have slipped into gaps in history? What place do such silences hold in shaping a community?...

April 12, 2021 National Book Award-winning novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, returns to Cornell for a virtual reading on Thursday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Registration is required for this free and open to the public event. Susan Choi Susan Choi and her work have been praised by many. Joan Didion describes her as “A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” Jennifer Egan says Choi’s work is “Deeply impressive, confident...

Novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, whose novel "Trust Fall" won the 2019 National Book Award, will read from her New Yorker story "Flashlight" during a virtual event on April 22.

April 8, 2021 The opening of “Subdivision,” J. Robert Lennon’s new novel, might be familiar to anyone who’s checked into a bed-and-breakfast. Familiar, and yet off a little off. “At the guesthouse, I was invited to come downstairs anytime and work on the puzzle,” the unnamed protagonist begins, describing a massive jigsaw puzzle that her hosts, Clara and the Judge, seem to be more interested in than her. “The ladies had not yet given me a key or even revealed which room I would be...