Based on Elizabeth Engelman’s family history and experiences growing up as the daughter of a Santeria priestess, the short story collection "The Way of the Saints" charts... Read More

Maureen Aitken’s "The Patron Saint of Lost Girls" pretends to be a collection of short stories but is not. Instead, advantages of both short-story and novel formats are fused... Read More

Gritty, raw, liberated, and twisted into lines of beauty, Emma Bolden’s melancholic realizations mostly relate to her body and her hysterectomy. With multiple collections and... Read More

Woefully unfair. Dedicated to a deceased father, this collection is so powerful and precious, it’s heartbreaking to realize how meaningful it would have been for the old man,... Read More

Winner of the 2014 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the fetchingly named "Underwater Panther" is Angie Macri’s debut collection of poems rooted in Mississippi River landscapes and... Read More

Shifts in time and from character to character parallel the motif of the swinging trapeze to reveal the circus-like perils of family relations. "Failing the Trapeze", by Susan... Read More

The wide variety of personal accounts creates a gritty, deeply emotional collection of war stories. Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume Two is an inspiring... Read More

With succinct observation, the narrator correctly identifies the motives and hope of Mexican immigrants. Texas is north of Mexico, but in John Mort’s insightful and delightful... Read More