By the end of 2025, all five writers became published novelists

From left, Blair Hurley ’09, Sash Bischoff ’09, Lovell Holder ’09, Laura Hankin ’10, and Daria Lavelle ’09 at a writers retreat the group held in Princeton in December 2024 to celebrate that they each were officially published authors.

Courtesy of Daria Lavelle ’09

By Harrison Blackman ’17

Published Feb. 27, 2026

In December 2024, five Princeton alumni returned to campus — not for a reunion, but to work on their fiction in a cozy farmhouse setting. “It was a nice time to hang out with friends who are in the same boat as you,” Laura Hankin ’10 says of the retreat. “To almost feel like you had some co-workers in a profession where you don’t really get co-workers in the same way.”

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