Divorced Business Partners by Emily Hyland (2024)
Poetry
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“Emily Hyland’s inventive debut is a frank chronicle of one couple coming together and apart as they struggle through the high-stress adventure of launching a restaurant. In sharply drawn scenes—tender, aching, brutal, and comic almost all at once—Hyland creates a kind of documentary sequence, a portrait of people trying their best to love and to work. As richly dimensional as a novel, Divorced Business Partners is bracingly contemporary and thoroughly alive.” —Mark Doty, author of What is the Grass? Walt Whitman in My Life
Boolean Logic by Morgan Christie (2023)
Nonfiction
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Morgan Christie’s book is in conversation with various themes including race, gender inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and others as questions regarding how experiences define us are viewed through a Boolean Logic lens, where sums do not always equal their parts. These essays intertwine sport, family, and community and other aspects that assist in shaping identities through lineage and the lessons we take from them.
I Have Her Memories Now by Carrie Grinstead (2022)
Fiction
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“I Have Her Memories Now is a dark and beautiful collection of stories about girls and women, daughters and mothers, friendship and loneliness. The prose is exquisite, and the narratives have a way of plunging into the characters that is breathtaking. Carrie Grinstead is an amazingly talented young writer. Her stories are utterly hers; they sound like no one else. I really love this book.”
—Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown
The Second Longest Day of the Year by Jean Prockott (2021)
Poetry
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“The Second Longest Day of the Year offers us a poetic landscape that is easily entered but not lightly forgotten. Jean Prokott’s writing is agile. It moves gracefully from a stark wittiness and conversational observations to unforgettable imagery evoking the true palpability of grief. You’ll find yourself pausing between pages to reflect and revel; to mourn or query; to grow and keep going.”—Sierra DeMulder, author of Today Means Amen
Self, Divided by John Medeiros (2020)
Nonfiction
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In 1995 John Medeiros and his identical twin brother participated in a gene therapy study in which the HIV-positive twin was infused with billions of genes from the HIV-negative twin. This memoir details, from a firsthand perspective, a time in our recent history when the world had to reckon with the emergence of a seemingly undefeatable virus. Self, Divided explores the dysfunctional yet enduring relationships that surround this pivotal moment in Medeiros’s life and family, brilliantly capturing how we all are connected, in one way or another, to those around us.
Irreversible Things by Lisa an Orman Hadley (2019)
Fiction
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Brimming with wit and heart, Irreversible Things follows three decades in the life of author-qua-narrator Lisa and her charismatic Mormon family, from childhood to puberty to adulthood. From a young girl grappling with early friendships, first crushes, and a beloved neighbor’s shocking murder, to a young woman beginning her own family, dealing with infertility, and caring for a father with Alzheimer’s, this work expands our understanding of the novel form, weaving together memoir, fiction, and the fiction of remembering.
Simples by KateLynn Hibbard (2018)
Poetry
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Poetry. Women’s Studies. “With Simples, KateLynn Hibbard has created a medicine chest of poems, a book that transports us back in time to search out the remedies and inner strength necessary to survive a hardscrabble life on the frontier plains. It is a sweeping portrait of a time and a region, one that offers an especially keen insight into the lives of women and children—bringing historical erasures and overlooked history into a brighter relief.
Still Life with Horses by Jean Harper (2017)
Nonfiction
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Still Life with Horses chronicles the quest to live ethically while navigating a changing personal and professional landscape. The book explores how animal relationships can keep us grounded when human relationships fail.
The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street by Jacob Appel (2016)
Fiction
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“No one gets off scot-free in these arresting Jacob Appel stories, which blaze with a relentless forward momentum. And, yet—as Appel’s underlying concern is kindness and connection—these eclectic, flawed, and deeply funny characters seem somehow to always find a way to make their stand. We can’t help but root for them.” —Josh Rolnick, author of Pulp and Paper
At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody by Marci Vogel (2015)
Poetry
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At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody, winner of the 2015 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize, features California poet Marci Vogel’s explorations of memory, family, loss, and life across intersections of contemporary landscapes and cultures, at home and abroad.