{"id":6881,"date":"2026-04-06T20:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:46:25","slug":"second-year-mfa-student-lana-reeves-announces-book-deal-with-penguin-random-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/second-year-mfa-student-lana-reeves-announces-book-deal-with-penguin-random-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-year MFA student Lana Reeves announces book deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penguin Random House will publish second-year MFA student <strong>Lana Reeves<\/strong>&#8216; debut poetry collection <em>KAMA&#8217;\u0100INA<\/em>\u00a0in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Lana hails from O&#8217;ahu, Hawai&#8217;i and received her BA with honors from Harvard University, where her thesis, under the direction from former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, was certified <em>summa cum laude.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Lana and her work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanareeves.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lanareeves.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6882\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1003\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250.png 2142w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250-1024x754.png 1024w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250-768x566.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250-1536x1132.png 1536w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/email-newsletter-writer-covers-40-e1775505024250-2048x1509.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/news\/\">MORE NEWS<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguin Random House will publish second-year MFA student Lana Reeves&#8216; debut poetry collection KAMA&#8217;\u0100INA\u00a0in 2027. Lana hails from O&#8217;ahu, Hawai&#8217;i and received her BA with honors from Harvard University, where her thesis, under the direction from former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, was certified summa cum laude.\u00a0 Learn more about Lana and her work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,14,22,6],"tags":[5,4],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-06-163603.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}