Registration will open on Monday, March 23 at 12 PM.

Photo Credit: Lærke Posselt

Join us for an evening with Olga Ravn 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.

Olga Ravn (b. 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen’s texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen’s readership worldwide. Her novel The Employees was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in 2021, and her novel The Wax Child was published by New Directions in 2025.

Ravn will be in conversation with Associate Professor of Writing, Rivka Galchen.