The first title in Coffee House's new Spatial Species series in collaboration with Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. Next title will be N by Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, in Spring 2022.
Art book feel, with french flaps, unique trim size, and distinctive branding across the series.
A personal, artistic mediation on Aisha's experience as one of the only Black women in a Republican-dominated area during the Trump presidency that sits thoughtfully adjacent to conversations around the problem of over-policing BIPOC individuals in outdoor spaces.
Deeply interdisciplinary: brings dozens of painters, philosophers, musicians, writers, performers, travelers into conversation with each other.
Riveting, sparkling book-length essay that's easy to read in one sitting.
Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit won the 2018 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction and picked up praise from Kiese Laymon, Maggie Nelson, and Margo Jefferson. She's published essays in The Paris Review, Guernica, Catapult, and Literary Hub. Aisha's father is revered photographer Lester Sloan, she has a book about his work coming from MacSweeney's in August 2021.