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In this moving coming-of-age novel set in the 1980's, award-winning author Stefan Kiesbye tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy and his older sister, who grow up in Michigan's storied Upper Peninsula, in a town that has been left off the map. Once no more than a small outcropping of stone in the middle of Lake Superior, it now lives its second incarnation away from curious eyes, a lost island, a haunted place where fairy tales and creatur...

In this contemporary novel set in the southern Appalachians, the lives of two young women-Leda and Shannon-are knit together when one is left alone on a farm after the loss of her partner and the other is displaced by mountaintop removal coal mining. "Book One: Way Out Farm" finds Leda trying to tease an existence out of her land. Her goats and a rescue dog are among her only contacts until she becomes close to Shannon, a single mother who h...

The history of our relationship with mental illness is the history of silence. Everything Has Become Birds is an attempt to change that. For centuries the mentally ill have either been locked up, driven out of cities and towns by whip and lash, sterilized, lobotomized, and euthanized. The catalogue of horrors rivals the worst of humanities abuses and yet comparatively little has been written about it. How often the victims were silenced, told ...

The Ensenada Library is a novel that pays tribute to libraries and reading with a cast of characters worthy of Chekhov. It's about the fate of reading and the libraries that honor books and reading. A vision of the possible fate of reading in a digital age, The Ensenada Public Library is what we'd get if Fahrenheit 451 had been written by Jorge Luis Borges.

In the Bare Bones House of Was is a collection of poems that broadly addresses ideas of place, politics, and the passage of time, while intimately reflecting on the ghosts and histories that reside beside the poet in her very old house In Virginia, and that remain a constant in a culture of the American South. The eponymous poem-as well as many other poems in this collection-emerged from extensive historical research concerning the house, farm...

Understory is an epic, a poem that historically follows the deeds and misdeeds of heroes. The hero at the heart of this contemporary epic explores the dominions of her native terrain, the passions and battles of the body, and of her own literal and figurative understory…the singular network of lives, desires, and liberations that sustain the larger story of a life.

The novel begins in 1996 when a principled and spirited woman sets her sights on becoming a member of Parliament. When and how does she get there? The story unfolds through the perspectives of two dramatically contrasting characters whose lives become tragically entangled. Waheeda is a thirty-two-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh who enters politics after her brothers are murdered. Monish, her secret lover, is a scion of a Delhi business dynas...

Judith Small's new collection of poetry, Second Tongue, is a sharply observed identification with the immigrant heart and soul. Based on her work as a translator, the book's themes are loss, displacement, and the need to bear witness. The collection won the 2017 Brighthorse Prize in Poetry.

Look. A woman is writing on parchment, a scroll.*We don't know her name. Her king, Solomon, hasdied, and the whole country's going to hell under thenew king, Rehoboam. The year is 937 BCE. Banishedfrom the ring of political power, she grounds herselfby collecting the kingdom's ancient stories. Of thefour writers in Genesis, J is the one who deliversthe earthly creatures-Noah, Joseph, Jacob, Rachel, et al-and, to paraphrase Pogo, they is us. He...

The Collector of Shadows, by James Silas Rogers, is a collection of poetry set primarily in the upper Midwest and celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary. Rogers, an award-winning essayist and well-published poet, is the author of a chapbook, Sundogs, and of a collection of essays and poems involving cemeteries, Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead.

It's 1923 and Annie O'Leary has made a rational and even beautiful life for herself on the back ward of a state asylum, where she's confined for a terrible crime she doesn't remember committing. She writes poetry, helps the nurses, and sings old hymns off the back porch. Then a new patient arrives to change all the equations. Lucy Valenta, a young art student, needs to get back in her right mind and bring her enormous gift into the world. The ...

In the Amber Chamber is a story collection where fairy tales and speculative fiction intersect with the hard facts of eastern European history. These political fables take place in eastern Europe, Kansas, and even other planets. Its characters include Peace Corps volunteers, childless parents, Hansel and Gretel, former rural farmworkers, Dust Bowl survivors, and immigrants in Chicago. Like the work of Kelly Link and Angela Carter, In the Amber...

Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering lesbian daughter who is called home to a Jewish enclave in the suburbs of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, where she grew up-halfway between the Shawn...

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How I Met You is a collection of award-winning short fiction by the celebrated fiction writer Bradley Jay Owens that includes stories ranging in subject matter from coming-of-age to relationships in tones ranging from the dramatic to the comic.

A collection of short fiction by the award-winning writer Alina Stefanescu in which the author brings an immigrant's sharp eye to the American way of life. In prose that reminds us of the best of Grace Paley, Every Mask I Tried On is by turns smart, funny, and profound.

A collection of poetry by Carla Maria Stout that is both mysterious and touching, Remote Fishing and Sassafras Tea celebrates and explores human connections, love, and the mysteries and wonders of nature.

Staring down heartbreak and regret, Stewart Simmons, flees a haunted Philadelphia for the beauty of the West. In a raw, yet lyrical, voice that gives life to the urgency and appetites of youth, West of Love takes place in a time before the internet, before cell phones, before technology changed the ways we live and love. And as an older Stewart looks candidly back at his younger self, a picture of the human heart emerges-one that offers a test...

Peter Grandbois' This House That is a haunting collection of poetry that traces the effort to reintergrate the self after loss.It is a book about family, about love, and about the mystery of being human.