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Join us for an evening with Katie Kitamura as part of Columbia’s Art + Life series, a programme of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Columbia’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program for majors and aficionados. Art + Life has hosted writers like Ladan Osman, Hernan Diaz, Phillip B. Williams, Bushra Rehman, Morgan Parker, Tommy Pico, Jenny Zhang, Eileen Myles and many others, and provides an opportunity for students to ask the invited reader questions and to engage in roundtable discussions with the artist.

Kitamura will be in conversation with Assistant Professor in Writing and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Hilary Leichter.

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. One of President Obama’s 2025 Summer Reads, it was longlisted for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was also one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature and the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, Kitamura’s work has been translated into 24 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.