This podcast features alumnus author David Grosz, class of 1993. David is editorial director and chief digital officer at Cahiers d’Art Institute, a publisher of catalogues raisonnés of leading twentieth and twenty-first century artists and architects, including Frank Gehry, Sam Gilliam, Robert Irwin, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Niki de Saint Phalle. David is a graduate of Yale University and received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College.

His debut novel is “Providence.”

This podcast features alumna author Nicole Ruane, class of 1988. Nicole is senior lecturer in classics, humanities, and Italian Studies at University of New Hampshire. She was previously a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University, a lecturer at Northeastern University, and an instructor at Union Theological Seminary and The General Theological Seminary. She has published numerous scholarly articles about gender, sacrifice, and ritual in the Bible and her work was included in “A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond,” edited by Deborah Rooke as well as other collections.

Her book is “Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law.”

This podcast features alumnus author Scott Newman, class of 2017. Scott is a writer, editor, podcast host, and founder. He has visited nearly forty countries and has lived in Amman, Antibes, New York, Sydney, and Paris.

His debut book is “The Night Before the Morning After.”

This podcast features alumnus author Jason Schwartzman, class of 2008. Jason is a writer, senior editor, biographer, and teacher. His writing has appeared in the “New York Times,” “New York Magazine,” “Narratively,” “Gothamist,” “Hobart,” “BULL,” “River Teeth,” “X-R-A-Y,” and other publications. Jason lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Alexandra, and their dog, Stella.

His debut book is, “No One You Know.”

This podcast features alumnus author Cyrus R. K. Patell, class of 1979. Cyrus is professor of English at New York University in New York. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American literature and language from Harvard University. His scholarship and teaching centers on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; “Star Wars;” minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history. He is the author of “Emergent U.S. Literatures” and “Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination.” He is presently at work on “What in the World is a Global Text?” as well as a study of the ways in which Shakespeare's “Hamlet” became a part of global cultural heritage. He is coediting volume eight of the twelve-volume “Oxford History of the Novel in English” on the American novel after 1940.

His most recent book is “Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe.”

This podcast features alumna author Aleksandra Crapanzano, class of 1988. Aleksandra is a screenwriter and food writer. A recipient of The M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing from The James Beard Foundation, she is a dessert columnist for “The Wall Street Journal.” She is the author of “The London Cookbook” and “Eat. Cook. LA.,” and her work has been widely anthologized, most notably in “Best American Food Writing.” She has been a frequent contributor to “Bon Appetit,” “Food & Wine,” “Food52,” “Saveur,” “Town & Country,” “Elle,” “The Daily Beast,” “Departures,” “Travel + Leisure,” and the “New York Times Magazine.”  She has years of experience in the film world, consults in the food space, and serves on several boards with a focus on sustainability.  Aleksandra grew up in New York and Paris, received her AB from Harvard and her MFA from NYU, where she has taught writing.

Her most recent book is "Gâteau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes."

This podcast features alumna author Catherine Price, class of 1997. Catherine is a science journalist, founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com, and the author of several books including: “How to Break Up With Your Phone” and “Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food.”

Her work has appeared in the “Best American Science Writing,” the “New York Times,” “Popular Science,” “O, The Oprah Magazine,” the “Los Angeles Times,” the “San Francisco Chronicle,” the “Washington Post Magazine,” “Parade,” “Salon,” “Slate,” “Men’s Journal,” “Self,” “Medium,” “Health Magazine,” and “Outside,” among others.

She is the author of, “The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.”

This podcast features alumnus author Calvin D. Sun, class of 2004. Calvin is a board-certified physician specializing in emergency medicine, a public speaker, author, activist, and travel writer based in New York City. He has worked at multiple emergency departments—most notably during the COVID-19 pandemic—as well as large-scale events primarily across the New York City metropolitan area.

Calvin is also the founder of The Monsoon Diaries: a blog-turned-travel community that has taken hundreds of readers to over 190 countries and territories in the past ten years including North Korea, Nauru, Greenland, and Antarctica. The Monsoon Diaries has been featured on BBC News, ABC News, MSNBC, TED, “National Geographic,” and “USA Today.”

His book, published by HarperCollins with a foreword by Lisa Ling, is “The Monsoon Diaries: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing from the ER Frontlines to the Far Reaches of the World.”

This podcast features alumna author Phoebe Zerwick class of 1978. Phoebe is an award-winning investigative journalist, narrative writer, and college professor. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; National Geographic; the Nation; the Winston-Salem Journal; and Glamour, among other publications. Her work has been recognized by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, Columbia University, the North Carolina Press Association, and has been featured in the HBO documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt. A graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Phoebe is the director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University, where she teaches writing and journalism, including courses taught at the law school in collaboration with the director of Wake Forest's Innocence & Justice Clinic. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her husband, a dog, and three cats. Her blended family includes three grown children. She is the author of Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt.

This podcast features alumnus author Tom Lin class of 2014. Tom was born in Beijing, China, and immigrated to the United States when he was four years old. A graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program in the English department at the University of California, Davis. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is his debut novel.