Diane Glancy’s "Island of the Innocent" explores the “Book of Job with poems and poetic prose until the fissures” appear. Other times and places bleed into the story, including the United States’ Indian eradication efforts in the... Read More

Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s poetry collection "All the Gay Saints" addresses queer love, trans bodies, and the wholeness and holiness of queer lives. Shot through with a pure, unadulterated core of love, the collection... Read More

Afghani American Fowzia Karimi immigrated to the US with her family after the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and grew up in Southern California. Negotiating the before and after of that seismic childhood event requires reckoning... Read More

In his fourth book of poetry, "To Make Room for the Sea", Adam Clay notes, “The line between the public and personal? It depends on the world.” His poems play with the connection between individual experiences and the public,... Read More

Full of dark thrills and derring-do, Peter Bunzl’s steampunk fantasy "Skycircus" finds fourteen-year-old Lily receiving a personal invitation to Slimwood’s Stupendous Traveling Skycircus, accompanied by a package that contains her... Read More

A story told in seasons, L. B. Simmons’s We, The Wildflowers unfolds across a little more than a year as Chloe enters foster care and the group home that changes her life in radical ways. The Wildflowers—made up of Genesis, Adam,... Read More

A memoir about E. J. Koh’s formative years, "The Magical Language of Others" is structured around forty-nine letters, all that remain of a one-way correspondence from her mother over the seven years that they lived apart. Functioning... Read More

999 Jewish girls who were transported to Auschwitz became the initial victims of the Final Solution, but the girls disappeared from the historical record in the 1990s due to a methodological fillip. Heather Dune Macadam’s "999" rights... Read More