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
Our Siberian Summer (Novel), Davis, CA An accidental US immigrant, Rita struggles with relationships, haunted by two closest people she left behind, and exploring post-USSR legacy of distrusting ... [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
Just Plain Filthy: The Life and Times of Book Banning's Trial of the Century (Nonfiction), Cary, NC The first book-length history of Island Trees v. Pico, the only book ban case ever to make it ... [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
Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names is a collection of poems ... [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 (Neal 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
Land of the North Winds (Nonfiction), Western MA / Northern Italy Land of the North Wind (Simon & Schuster, 2025) takes readers across the circumpolar north to chronicle the dual impacts of ... [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]