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Claire Jimenez

Claire Jiménez ’06 Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez emerges as the best novel published in 2023

Jack Brenner ’26 in the Perkins Arboretum

Have You Listened to the Sounds of the Colby Forest?

A new humanities lab project, to be presented at this year’s liberal arts symposium, asks people to close their eyes and listen to what the woods have to say

Farnham Writers' Center

One Writer at a Time

With peer-to-peer tutoring, the Farnham Writers’ Center prepares students for a lifetime of effective communication

Matt LeVan, digital archives librarian

Interested in Insights from Maine Artists?

Lights Out Gallery gifts a treasure trove of interviews with contemporary Maine artists to Colby’s digital archives

Yannik Buchi in Long Island City

He Discovered Software Engineering and Found Himself

Yannik Büchi ’17 double majored in French and biology, and today he’s a full-stack software developer at real estate startup Upright

Eleanor Jackson

Role Reversal

Eleanor Jackson ’02 now works as the literary agent for her former professor, Debra Spark

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead signs books for fans after a reading at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts.

Sitting Next to a Famous Author in Class

Colson Whitehead shares insights about writing with the College community

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson in screening room

Does Climate Fiction (and Filmmaking) Work? 

Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson develops a new tool to measure how effectively filmmakers represent climate change on screen

Steven Weiberg in Catskills

Teaching Kids to Ask the Big Questions

Artist Steven Weinberg ’06 takes an interdisciplinary approach to his children’s books

Nicole Georges

The Marriage of Pictures and Words

Graphic memoirist Nicole Georges named 2024 Jennifer ​Jahrling​ Forese Writer-in-Residence