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Katie Naughton ’08 is poetry in motion: She’s working on her dissertation for a doctorate in literature at the University of Buffalo; teaching undergraduates; creating a website for poets, and more. Amid all of that, she writes poetry.

Journalist Antonia Noori Frazen ’11, who won a George Polk Award in 2018, works as a general-assignment reporter for The Washington Post, she agreed to answer some questions about her career.

Fresh from graduation, Michelle Chung ’20 began an extensive job search and, having previously interned for Penguin Random House, knew that she had an interest in publishing. After identifying an opening with Simon & Schuster, a top publishing company based in New York City, she reached out to Brian Belfiglio ’90.

Award-winning author Kamila Shamsie ’94 wrote an op-ed for the British newspaper The Guardian titled “The UK once welcomed refugees - now we detain them indefinitely. It must end.”

As Lindsey Foster ’20 walked to her Global Shakespeare class earlier this year, she received a call from an unknown number. She answered, only guessing at who might be calling. That’s when she got the news — she had been accepted to Cornell Law School.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar and students in her “English and its Discontents” senior seminar recently presented their research at a virtual conference titled “Thinking with an Accent: Through Voice, Across Media.”

After graduation, Danny Berger ’20 will join City Year in Philadelphia to work at a school in an underserved or low-income community.

In his Marrow of African American Literature class, Professor Vincent Odamtten wants students to see that African American writers, in describing their own experiences, are writing about the American experience.

When the BBC asked a panel of writers, curators, and critics to choose “100 genre-busting novels that have had an impact on their lives,” Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie ’94 made the list.

Jake Zappala ’12 earned a doctorate in atomic physics at the University of Chicago, but he’s stayed true to his other favorite academic subject. Zappala writes novels for fun.