An autobiographical odyssey from Panama to Texas, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s poetry collection "Stepmotherland" ponders split identities through art, current events, and religion. Of African and Chocó descent, Holnes describes himself... Read More

Poetry is always looking for voices from the wilderness, and with her country music cool, Southeastern Kentucky’s Marianne Worthington is a fitting, masterful voice for Appalachia. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, CALYX,... Read More

Yara El-Ghadban looks at the life of Ariel Sharon from a unique perspective in her novel "I Am Ariel Sharon". In January 2006, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon—nicknamed “Arik”—falls into a coma from which he will never... Read More

Devon Walker-Figueroa is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the New England Review’s Emerging Writer Award. Her work has been been published in Ploughshares, The Harvard Advocate, The Nation, New England... Read More

Daniel Lassell was raised in Kentucky with llamas and alpacas, and his poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, Southern Humanities Review, and several other publications. He is currently a resident of Colorado... Read More

About life with schizoaffective disorder, the memoir "Lilies in the Field" is powerful in charting Kathy Anderson’s path to self-worth. Kathy Anderson’s poignant memoir "Lilies in the Field" deals with her mental illness and the... Read More

In poems both elegiac and snarky, Randall Mann questions what makes a better life for a middle-aged gay man living through the historic days of Covid and a federal assault on LGBTQ+ rights. The poems, though focused through the lens of... Read More

Every author launches their book into the world with a prayer. Please, powers that be, let this humble collection of words make teenaged girls laugh uncontrollably, or provoke men to schedule a prostate exam, as the case may be. Some... Read More