Wolf Act  by AJ Romriell

02/18/2025

Wolf Act moves like a body does, an evocative intertwining of memories through the alienating potential of religious orthodoxy, the thrilling and shameful experiences of adolescence, and a search for love (including self-love) in a homophobic culture that narrowly defines lovability. —Elissa Washuta

Miri's Moving Day  by Stephanie Wildman & Adam Ryan Chang

11/05/2024

Miri will miss the Chinese lions in front of her apartment building. What will happen to her now that it's moving day? Fortunately Zayde, her Jewish grandfather, and Yeh Yeh, her Chinese grandfather, have some surprises to help her feel at home in her new apartment.

The Lake Huron Mermaid  by Linda Nemec Foster & Anne-Marie Oomen

10/15/2024

Literary magicians Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen, along with gifted illustrator Meridith Ridl, have made a beautiful book of poems about deep water—the literal and the metaphorical kind. Readers of all ages will dive deep then resurface, buoyed by invaluable wisdom... --Alison Swan

Brutal Companion  by Ruben Quesada

10/15/2024

Ruben Quesada's BRUTAL COMPANION is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read about the fact of longing: "You slowly fade/behind a sugar maple, branches like scarecrows waving goodbye." He manages this beauty with poetry that is so pure that I am always left gagging at even the slightest move and smallest decision in each line (for instance, "above the black milk of Lake Michigan"). —Jericho Brown

Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses  by Jennifer Lang

10/15/2024

American-born Jennifer traces her seven-year search—both on and off the yoga mat—for answers to hard questions about her marriage to a Frenchman, their imminent empty nest, her midlife hormones, and their new home in the Middle East.

Doll Seed: Stories   by Michele Tracy Berger

10/01/2024

This speculative collection spans horror, science fiction and magical realism. Often thematically centered on the lives of women and girls, especially women of color and their experiences of vulnerability and outsider status, these stories are often playful and always provocative.

Arroyo Circle  by JoeAnn Hart

10/01/2024

In the novel ARROYO CIRCLE, hoarding and homelessness are depicted through the dark marriage of environmental degradation and rampant capitalism.

Sex, Love, and Black Lives   by Dr. Mack Curry IV

09/20/2024

Come explore the thoughts and experiences that pour from my mind, a bit raunchy, romantic, and radical all at the same time.

We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood  by Jennifer Case

09/17/2024

Collection of personal essays tackling social stigmas around mothering, childbirth, and feminism in the twenty-first century.

They Were Horrible Cooks  by Allison Whittenberg

09/16/2024

Whether bearing witness to the torment of a mother who drowns her own children, or to the quiet sorrows of daughters mourning their mother by fingering the thread of her old coats, Whittenberg never fails to illuminate crucial truths at the center of human experience. These poems cut to the bone.

In & Out of Place  by Gabrielle Civil

09/15/2024

With diary entries, reflections, performance texts, and images, Gabrielle Civil documents her time making Black feminist performance art in Mexico. IN AND OUT OF PLACE explores—and expands—the parameters of her artistic process, heritage, and trajectory as a Black feminist artist in the world.

Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions)  by Jeff Fleischer

09/10/2024

The stories in ANIMAL HUSBANDRY all deal in some way with mythology, from animal fables to imaginary friends to the myths people tell themselves, from a farmer finding his cow has given birth to a surprising offspring to a guitarist trying to improve his skills with a visit to the crossroads.

Without You Here  by Jody Hobbs Hesler

09/10/2024

Noreen is 8 years old when her kindred spirit aunt dies from suicide. At 27, the same age her aunt was when she died, Noreen is a young mother trapped in a harmful marriage. How can she stop history from repeating itself? A story of generational trauma, mental illness, & the power of love.

Eleanora in Pieces  by Jessica Maffetore

09/05/2024

It's been two years since Eleanora's 4-year-old son disappeared from his bed in the middle of the night. Every day she waits for news that he's been found. And every day Eleanora lives with the nightmare of knowing that she failed to protect the person who matters to her the most.

Ghost Writer  by Stephanie Wildman & Cecilia Populus-Eudave

09/03/2024

Twins Flor and Roberto and their big brother Luis are back again, just in time for Halloween and Dia de los Muertos. But Halloween reminds them of Julio, their beloved Boston Terrier who'd passed away. They combine holiday traditions and come back in touch with happy memories of their pet.

Pineville Trace  by Wes Blake

09/03/2024

“Wes Blake renders the tale with great empathy and in language that’s so lyrical it practically lifts from the page. Blake is a writer to watch.” —Lee Martin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist The Bright Forever “A haunting debut!” —Julie Hensley, author of Landfall: A Ring of Stories

City of Dancing Gargoyles  by Tara Campbell

09/03/2024

In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this chaotic world of alchemical transformations, where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and gun-toting trees keep their own kind of peace.

The Last Whaler  by Cynthia Reeves

09/03/2024

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY calls THE LAST WHALER "a dramatic tale of survival at a frigid whaling station in 1937 Norway. This emotionally rich historical will keep readers turning the pages." FOREWORD REVIEWS’ starred review states “descriptions of the harsh Arctic landscape are lucid, at times ethereal.”

The Golden Land  by Elizabeth Shick

09/01/2024

Winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel. Etta Montgomery is a Boston-based labor lawyer coming to terms with the love and loss she experienced as a teenager during a 1988 family reunion in Burma.

The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape  by Lydia Paar

09/01/2024

Paar joined the American workforce at 14, holding nearly 30 different jobs from 25 homes across 8 states into adulthood. These essays explore her attempts to evade or transform the lower-middle-class American experience, through varied work and landscapes, and how it ultimately transforms us.

Controlled Conversations  by Karol Lagodzki

08/20/2024

In his debut novel, Karol Lagodzki asks: What separates people who transcend their fear and take risks for the sake of change from the rest of us? The answer is up to the readers.

The End of Tennessee   by Rachel M. Hanson

08/20/2024

"A gut-wrenching story of resilience and survival, beautifully anchored through the ferocity of Hanson's attachments to those she loves. Gorgeous, terrifying, impossible to put down."—Tessa Fontaine, author of The Electric Woman and Red Grove: A Novel

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark  by Katie Singer

08/16/2024

This book explores Newark’s Krueger-Scott African-American oral history collection. Singer separates these stories into thematic categories of social and political events, including church, work, and activism in order to paint an intimate portrait of the larger Black urban experience.

Broken Mirror  by Cody Sisco

08/16/2024

“A fantastic SF thriller with a sincere and important message.” —Kirkus Reviews Broken Mirror is the first volume in a queer psychological science fiction saga that looks at the stigma of mental illness and the hellish distrust and alienation that goes with it.

Bobby and Carolyn: A Memoir of My Two Mothers  by John Philip Drury

08/09/2024

“This is a memoir of songs and silences, of public and private performances. John Philip Drury uncovers in concise and beautiful prose the remarkable stories of the two mothers who raised him. A remarkable and jewel-like book.” (Stephen Kuusisto)

My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions  by Daniel A. Olivas

08/06/2024

"These stories are about love, heartbreak, magic, death and other oddities of our Chicano lives, as only Olivas's imagination can tell them... He is without a doubt one of the master storytellers of our time." —Daniel Chacón

Practice for Becoming a Ghost: Stories  by Patrick Thomas Henry

08/01/2024

In sixteen tales that smudge the line between the real and the fantastic, Practice for Becoming a Ghost tracks the malingering ghosts of grief that haunt the present. These stories grapple with grief and the fundamental truth that the act of living is always practice for becoming a ghost.

Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine  by Thao Votang

07/23/2024

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese-American Linh Ly’s unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present. Moving, insightful, and caustically funny all at once, the novel depicts a quarter-life crisis in deeply relatable prose.

The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility  by Natalie Lampert

07/16/2024

A fascinating and deeply-researched investigation into the lucrative, minimally regulated, fast-growing industry of egg freezing, from a young reporter on a personal journey into the world of cutting-edge reproductive medicine.

Tender One  by G. Gazelka

06/21/2024

Written in 2015–16, these often-personal poems take a spiritual journey through crisis to wholeness and a place of intimacy. Offered in this chapbook are their meditations and truths learned along the way.

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil  by Ananda Lima

06/18/2024

"One of the most original and unforgettable reads of the year." —LIBRARY JOURNAL "A terrific fiction debut.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "will delight readers crushed under the weight of the contemporary world.”—KIRKUS "Absolutely thrilling"—KELLY LINK

The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts  by DeWitt Henry

06/15/2024

Filled with a tight-knit ensemble cast of deeply realized characters, this earthy, beautifully nuanced story, set in suburban industrial America, reveals to us an everyday working woman as she finds her way on her own terms—through work, family, grief and love.

Talking Leaves Scrapbook  by Vivian Mary Carroll

06/11/2024

The debut collection of Cherokee poet Vivian Mary Carroll. "There is a contagious joy and appreciation present in this book that I find reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg and Sherwin Bitsui. The agency of the poet is rather astounding." Cedar Sigo, author of ALL THIS TIME

Arena Glow  by Angela Chaidez Vincent

06/04/2024

Arena Glow: Poems featuring women of the arena: the rodeo arena, the cockpit of a small plane, the boys’ club of engineering, the confines of a murderous board game, the Colosseum in which women also desired to fight as gladiators, the traditional marriage.

Clouds Are the Mountains of the World   by Alan Davis

06/04/2024

Mixing terrifying suspense, riveting slice-of-life episodes, terrifying encounters, heart-warming scenes, and splashes of dark humor, Davis narrates a gripping, powerful literary thriller about our human need to connect and endure.

Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours  by Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza

05/31/2024

Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours gathers poems from a love life in body and from love as grief when the sudden death of her spouse takes a woman into the afterlife of a widow. A book of hours weaves through the poems, holding her in the present, as she lives memory, imagination and myth.

Into the Ancient  by Joseph M Hess

05/31/2024

"...INTO THE ANCIENT crosses several continents while digging into memories: ex-lovers, a tragically lost brother. In Joe Hess’s exacting mirror, a troubling American style of loving, fogged-over and obscure against a late Cold War backdrop, starts to come clear." C. Wagner, Of Course, Fence

In the Grip of Grace  by Marianne Mersereau

05/24/2024

"Compelling poetry, adroit storytelling, and keen memoir." (Annette Sisson, author of Small Fish in High Branches) "Under the spell of Mersereau's vivid and compassionate voice, readers will be held in awe of her rich-storied life." (Anna Egan Smucker, author of Rowing Home and No Star Nights).

Maine Under Water  by Allison Whittenberg

05/07/2024

Set in the 1970s, the book centers on Charmaine "Maine" Upshaw who is about to graduate from junior high, after achieving valedictorian status. However, she is not able to read her grad speech to her class because of a power outage.

Tabitha, Get Up  by Lee Upton

05/03/2024

"It's Lee Upton's best, funniest, and most ingenious work of fiction yet."—Brock Clarke "Smart, funny...and a total joy!"—Iris Smyles "You're going to love this book."—David Ebenbach

Pulp into Paper  by Lenore Weiss

04/22/2024

In the close-knit community of Hentsbury, racism and the local paper mill’s oppressive control over the town collide in a gripping tale set in the 1990s in southern Arkansas along the fictional Mud River.

Bonfires & Other Vigils  by Colleen Alles

04/18/2024

Any event can be a vigil: a walk by a river, a flu shot at Walgreens, an hour spent by a bird feeder attracting mostly cardinals. These poems are watching the world around them—and the worlds beneath those worlds, too. Alles's second collection relishes in the elusive wonder of otherworldliness.

A Kind of Madness  by Uche Okonkwo

04/16/2024

Set in contemporary Nigeria, A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing.

Blue On A Blue Palette  by Lynne Thompson

04/16/2024

Thompson’s range in form and subject matter is equaled only by the deftness with which she handles each. In these pages we get a true blue bluesman who knows when to whisper and when to wait. John Murillo

The Corpse in the Trash Room  by Karla Huebner writing as Colette Tajemna

04/16/2024

In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ... Keith and his pals must navigate college politics, unruly druggies, and lesbian separatists in order to uncover the truth.

The Blue Divide   by Linda Nemec Foster

04/03/2024

With clarity and intensity, Linda Nemec Foster dives deep into the shadows, and deep into the light—global landscape, personal touch; faith and art; the sensual and the cruel; forward and backward through generations of family, acknowledging loss wherever it occurs... —Jim Daniels, author of Gun/Shy

Inside Out Egg  by Robin LaMer Rahija

04/01/2024

Inside Out Egg is an anxious collection of poems about finding love, beauty, and personhood on a media-soaked, consumerism-burned, hellscape of a planet.

She Called Me Throwaway - a Memoir  by Shama Shams

03/26/2024

Shama Shams spent her childhood in her native land of Bangladesh during a time of political turmoil and daily violence. Her father fled to the United States when her mother turned to extreme religion, which changed Shama's life forever.

Truth Be Told  by Linda Susan Jackson

03/15/2024

"In our violence, in our need, in our appetite for every last thing, we are no different than even the most terrifying gods...Truth Be Told is in every way a Revelation." -Tracy K. Smith

Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?   by Cyrus Cassells

03/15/2024

Who else could write work so unapologetic in its appetites, so sexy and urbane at the same time? Here we see him at his best-brazen, erotic, confident, and full of verve...In this brilliant collection, Cassells is the "artful, persistent dreamer"... -Richie Hofmann, Author of A Hundred Lovers

The Animal Is Chemical   by Hadara Bar-Nadav

03/15/2024

"Hadara Bar-Nadav organizes terror through a language so precise that every line proves how beauty can be wrought from pain." -Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Judge of the 2022 Levis Prize in Poetry

unalone  by Jessica Jacobs

03/15/2024

"Lucid, deft, circumspect, generous, sagacious, she gets down on her poetic knees and plants a green new tree of knowledge. Jacobs seeds, stakes, pollinates, flourishes, blooms." -Spencer Reece, Presbyterian Minister and Author

Letters from Conflict  by Lisa Stice

03/13/2024

Through a welcome bundle of poetic correspondence with an international community of artists and poets, a seasoned North Carolina poet and spouse of a U.S. Marine shares intimate insights and observations on creating history, family, community, and art.

Mother, (v)  by Anne Marie Wells

03/13/2024

Formally distinctive and beautifully honed, MOTHER, (V) is a reflective, precise and poignant sequence exploring fertility and its absence. This is honest, exquisitely realised poetry written with a freshness and intelligence that draws the reader in deeply, confirming Wells as a unique voice.

Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID's Long Haul  by Ann E. Wallace

03/12/2024

DAYS OF GRACE AND SILENCE documents the experience of living through COVID in spring 2020 and its aftermath, with illness, pain, and healing laid against a broad backdrop of pandemic deaths, mental health crisis, and social unrest. Yet the poems here are marked by hope and resilience.