Barnard College News
For eight years, the Donald E. Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen prize has been awarded yearly to a graduating senior, who receives $25,000 to support her creative writing.
Grenager explores gratitude, psychic awakenings, and reflects on the highs and lows of life across five short poems.
Asha Futterman ’21 reads her poem about the tales of womanhood and the cycle of time.
Eichler explores the connections between pandemics throughout history.
Mountain writes about her intimate memories of romance and falling in love from the perspective of being on a flight.
A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge ’69, was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Here, Berssenbrugge reflects on the natural influences and the creative process at work in her latest collection of poems.
The writer — whose debut novel, Burnt Sugar, is shortlisted for the Booker Prize — discusses her incredible journey into the literary industry and writing her first book.
Adjunct professor Nina Sharma ’05 writes about the power of play during a time of personal and global transition.