David Nikki Crouse’s work has always explored the mysteries of identity, and these remarkably rendered stories double-down on that subject by focusing on the self-mythology of people living in Fairbanks, Alaska, merging the hard exterior world of the Alaskan wilderness with its inhabitants’ complicated interior landscapes.
In richly lyrical prose, this coming-of-age novel tells the story of aspiring artist Sonya Hudson, who yearns to break free from psychological distress and celebrate her place in the world.
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what it means to be human and mortal on a fragile planet.
One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realizing you should have gone to the hospital sooner.
Living below the surface with parents not her own, Marisol Blaise is determined to earn her place in the underwater merstation known as Aqueous, until she learns a secret that will crush her world forever.
Soundtracked with soul, disco, and funk hits from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, the speaker of Testify returns in Trouble Funk to tell the story of how his parents met and fell in and out of love.
Written in memoir form through the language of flowers, this book of poems examines a daughter’s chronic illness in order to consider the vastness of human connection.
Written in memoir form through the language of flowers, this book of poems examines a daughter’s chronic illness in order to consider the vastness of human connection.
A stylistically and conceptually daring collection that winds from fantastical horror to mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its sharp, compassionate view the material, spiritual, and emotional lives of Haitian people.
Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous partnership with a dangerous ally in order to save the city of Astrum from a spreading curse.
