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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]