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Pepper Auerbach

April 10, 2024

My Brain Itches! (Graphic Novel/Memoir), Brooklyn, NY My Brain Itches! follows a young boy named Pepper, as he navigates living with the sometimes frightening surreality of his psychosis. “I ... [Read More]

Nishant Batsha

April 10, 2024

A Superfluous Man (Novel), Buffalo, NY A Superfluous Man explores what it means to care for children at this fraught moment, all while seeking out the fissures between our digital and analog ... [Read More]

Natasha Driscoll

April 10, 2024

High Yellow (Fiction), Allendale, NJ In High Yellow, Tamera, a biracial girl navigates her life; learning how race, colorism and popularity shapes the way the world sees her. “The aim of this ... [Read More]

Lorraine Avila

April 10, 2024

Dieasperra (Fiction), Bronx, NY Dieasperra is a mystery novel with elements of magical realism and fabulism that follows Solgone and Estela to the Dominican Republic to honor the memory of their ... [Read More]

Kenyatta D. Berry

April 10, 2024

The Price of Freedom (Nonfiction), Santa Monica, CA Embark on a journey, discovering the overlooked African American narratives from the battlefield to Hollywood, igniting an impassioned plea for ... [Read More]

Karolina Letunova

April 9, 2024

Siberian Summer (Novel), Davis, CA Spanning a century in Western Siberia and two weeks in WA state, Siberian Summer is about immigrant Rita's lifelong bond with a friend she left behind and a ... [Read More]

Karla Cordero

April 9, 2024

Chillona / Crybaby (Poetry), San Diego, CA Chillona/Crybaby is a collection of poems documenting the impact of chronic illness upon the Indigenous/Mexican-American identity, while navigating the ... [Read More]

Julia Zarankin

April 9, 2024

The Babushka Beauty Pageant (Novel), Toronto, CANADA Three generations of strong, opinionated women from Ukraine wind up in Canada where they experience love, heartbreak, and a beauty pageant for ... [Read More]

Erica Blumfield

April 9, 2024

Starring Erica Blumfield (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA Bipolar convinces Erica her life is a reality TV show, a memoir weaving NYC’s music scene, a tumultuous love story, psychiatric institutions, ... [Read More]

Emmy Her Many Horses

April 9, 2024

The Remembering (Climate Fiction), Oceti Sakowiƞ Territory, South Dakota In The Remembering, Čuŋksi suddenly hears a voice in her head telling of the future to come, and the ancestral knowledge ... [Read More]

David Philip Mullins

April 9, 2024

The Houndsman (Novel), Omaha, NE The Houndsman follows big-game hunter Jesse Tindol on her quest to locate a missing child in the backwoods of northern Nevada. "The Houndsman will explore ... [Read More]

Cora Currier

April 9, 2024

Some Types of Intelligence (Novel), Molokai, Hawai'i Some Types of Intelligence is a novel about the war on terror — about Afghanistan, surveillance, art, and complicity with U.S. ... [Read More]

Anthony Aycock

April 9, 2024

To Ban Or Not to Ban: Censorship and Island Trees v. Pico (Nonfiction), Cary, NC The first book-length history of Island Trees v. Pico, the only book ban case ever to make it to the U.S. Supreme ... [Read More]

Alex Cain

April 9, 2024

The Body in the Greenhouse (Historical Fiction), Jamestown, RI The Body in the Greenhouse, a mystery set at Harvard in 1948, explores closed societies and the social codes required to succeed ... [Read More]

May Lee-Yang

April 9, 2024

The Happy Life (Short Story Collection), St. Paul, MN The Happy Life is a collection of short stories that center Hmong women protagonists who are outsiders within their own community across the ... [Read More]

Conor Bracken

April 9, 2024

All-American Dad (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH All-American Dad is a collection of poems which complicates the hypermasculine construction of fatherhood so we can see it as a unit of empire to ... [Read More]

Patrick Strickland

April 9, 2024

A History of Heartache: Stories (Short Story Collection), Athens, GREECE This interlinked short story collection is populated by people in or from Texas, enduring the corrosive impacts of ... [Read More]

Kim Watson

April 9, 2024

Searching for Zora (Neale Hurston) – The State of Poverty in America Today (Creative Nonfiction), Los Angeles, CA A cross-country photo-essay journey into poverty featuring Zora’s iconic ... [Read More]

Kenneth R. Rosen

April 9, 2024

Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic (Nonfiction), Western MA / Northern Italy Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic ... [Read More]

Anna Louie Sussman

April 9, 2024

Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty (Nonfiction), New York City, NY Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty explores how contemporary capitalism has become ... [Read More]

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The de Groot Foundation is a private 501(C)(3) grant making foundation located in the United States that supports writers and the literary arts.

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