Women’s instincts and memories are alchemical in A. J. Ashworth’s unnerving speculative collection "Maybe the Birds". In one tale, a school shooting survivor carves mementos mori for the lost; her relationship fractures with the... Read More

The is much to gain from African knowledge, not least an understanding of how one’s ancestors can bless a life. We learn as much from Nigerian poet Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, a PHD candidate in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.... Read More

The Mariana Islands claim a long line of Chamorro versemakers and storytellers. To this tradition, Danielle P. Williams adds a measure of Black gospel to create this wholly original debut collection. An essayist and spoken-word artist... Read More

For the poet, no skill is more of service than observation—what is there, what once was and will be, where love left a mark. In this regard, Robert Fanning looks up to very few. Now the author of five collections of poetry and three... Read More

Sara Gothelf Bloom’s sophisticated novel-in-vignettes "Just Enough to Start Over" is about an artistic German Jewish family in exile from the Nazis. There are three Dubrovsky sisters: Bertha, a talented musician; Annelene, a gifted... Read More

A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel "Becoming Felicity". A lifelong resident of Loon, Cass is devastated to learn that its library will close without... Read More

Handling the tough topics of weight loss, obesity, and disordered eating with respect, "Always Hungry" is a revealing memoir. Jane McGuinness’s witty, openhearted memoir "Always Hungry" is about experiencing weight loss, motherhood,... Read More

Janis A. Fairbanks’s reverential family memoir recounts her Native American childhood in Minnesota, wherein love outweighed poverty. Fairbanks belongs to the Fond du Lac band of the Lake Superior Chippewa people. She grew up the fourth... Read More