OUR MISSION
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. We were founded in 1977 and continue to be one of the few national literary journals entirely edited, designed, and produced by students. You’ll find that our minds are open, our interests diverse. We solicit manuscripts from writers we love and select the most exciting finds from our virtual submission box. Above all, our commitment is to our readers—to producing a collection that informs, surprises, challenges, and inspires.
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Over the years, the journal has published National Book Award-winners and Nobel laureates, as well as early writing by then-lesser known talents including Tom Perrotta’s first short story and early poems by Alicia Ostriker and Suji Kwock Kim.
Our archives include work by Raymond Carver, Jorge Luis Borges, Lorrie Moore, Louise Glück, Fred Chappell, Kara Walker, Jane Kenyon, James Tate, Philip Gourevitch, Lydia Davis, Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, Phillip Lopate, Ha Jin, Jonathan Lethem, Italo Calvino, John D’Agata, Jack Pierson, Sam Lipsyte, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Safran Foer, Wayne Koestenbaum, Deb Olin Unferth, Timothy Liu, and Etgar Keret.
More recent issues have featured new work by Lydia Millet, Diane Williams, Elizabeth Wurtzel, David Shields, Gary Snyder, and Paul Muldoon, as well as interviews with Susan Orlean and Michael Ondaatje.
OUR STAFF
| Editor-in-Chief | Laura Thomas |
| Managing Editor | Jaime Green |
| Business Manager | Madeline Felix |
| Nonfiction Editor | Nick Neely |
| Poetry Editor | Liam Powell |
| Fiction Editor | Matt Gallagher |
| Art Editor | Kate Peterson |
| Web Editor | Grant Bergland |
| Contests, Readings & Promotions Manager | Crystal Kim |
| Panel Discussions Editor | Crystal Kim |
| Development Manager | Suzie Hanrahan |
| Copy Chief | Yurina Ko |
| Copy Editor | Hope Ewing |
| Nonfiction Board |
Brooke Larson Brandt Miller Carena Litpak Jaime Green |
| Fiction Board |
Rose Waldman Suzie Hanrahan Michael Nardone Sanae Lemoine |
| Poetry Board |
Will Brewer Gerard Coletta Kara Billey |
| Blog Editor | Hope Ewing |
| Faculty Board |
Lucie Brock-Broido Binnie Kirshenbaum William Wadsworth |