Self-ish

A moving memoir of a remarkable transgender woman’s life, from her childhood in a military family, an architectural career in Africa, a spiritual journey as a Quaker, and her service as a political appointee under President Obama.

Brother carnival

Brother Carnival is the tale of a narrator’s anguished quest to find a missing brother by probing that sibling’s story excerpts for clues as to his whereabouts, while on a more arresting level the novel portrays the odyssey of one who is reconciling to his lost self.

Losing beck

When Avigdor Element’s hundred year legacy falls into the hands of the writer Jennie Silver, she creates a diary, a play and a novella in an attempt to psychologically escape a man who has imprisoned her mind and who was very much influenced by Element’s bad behavior.

Trash mountain

In a scummy southern town where the only thriving business is trash, a quirky teenager with an eco-terroristic spark must decide whether to destroy the noxious landfill poisoning his town or do what everybody else does: work there.

Letters from a young father

A father-to-be, through the course of his wife’s pregnancy, writes a poem a week to his unborn child; each poem is a letter of life, a letter of love, as he prepares himself for the greatest journey of all: fatherhood.

Everyone wants to be ambassador to france

b>“Bryan Hurt’s stories are like no one else’s. They are by turns hilarious, whimsical, arresting, and heartbreaking, but what makes them such a delight is the sly simplicity and off-handed charm of their telling.”—T.C. BOYLE

Cairn

Set in Alaska and Arizona, Peggy Shumaker’s new and selected writing explores the wildness of land, heart, and family.

Confessions of a barefaced woman

In Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, Allison Joseph turns her keen and sassy eye on all the furious and hilarious conditions of modern black womanhood.

A history of too much

These are poems born of facets and interrogations of citizenship and national dissolution in the Greek cultural landscape of economic austerity, of the self in love, too, with topoi imbued with history, eros, and loss. The terrains are multiple and transient, the subjects both quotidian and extra...

Snake iii

Snake—the Hunger Sutras is the third book in the Snake Quartet. By now snake has carried the lost voices—from the smallest single celled whisper to the bellow of more complex creatures as she wanders the empty Earth.

The shame of losing

Just as Sarah Cannon is settling into suburban life with her young family, she is thrown into a tailspin when a horrifying accident nearly kills her spouse.

Jane of battery park

Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended when the cult family members nearly killed him for flirting with her. Eight years after a romantic meet-cute in Battery Park, both search for so...

I was a bell

In this collection, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves, and how, despite the passage of time, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present.

Sinking islands

A scientist who has the power to influence the Earth’s forces tries to teach her skill to kindred souls from around the world.

Buy me love

A novel about chance, trust, and a lottery ticket.

Abracadabra, sunshine

Using epistolary letters and fragments, Abracadabra, Sunshine collects multiple personal, cultural, and historical narratives that embrace the tragedy, magic, and beauty that is the human experience.

American quasar

American Quasar, a visual-textual collaboration, addresses personal and political trauma, the emotional craters left by family, and the ways in which one learns to love not only as son, brother, student, or lover, but from the space one occupies as "citizen.”

The playwright's house

When a renowned Cuban theater director is arrested under mysterious circumstances, a successful young lawyer and his estranged brother must overcome their family’s tragic past and confront their country’s unforgiving political reality in order to free their father.

A gypsy's book of revelations

A short story collection that explores the weirdness of the human experience: physical transformations and experiments, adolescence and old age, extreme forms of love, from Japan to Poland through Pasadena. 

Lexicon

Lexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph’s award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. Joseph loves language, though as a black woman, it doesn’t always love her back. Still, she persists—with language as friend and foe.

A camera obscura

A Camera Obscura charts a trajectory through the solar system of art, science, and faith to allay the displacement of living.

Snake iv

Original Grace completes the modern epic myth/reality of the Snake Quartet. It intends to bring into awareness through poetry how and why irresponsible human stewardship of Mother Earth has pushed nearly all lifeforms to the vanishing point.

Strange children

In a polygamist commune in the desert, a fourteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father’s child while the boy commits murder four hundred miles away—a crime that will ...

Touching creatures, touching spirit

Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a personal study conveyed in thought-provoking nonfiction and creative nonfiction stories of psychic and empathic reach-across between unlikely beings: human and insect, human and lizard, human and coyote, and of course many cats.

Extremely lightweight guns

In this bold debut collection, Nikki Moustaki explores femininity in contexts that grapple with violence, mental illness, loss, love, and relationships. She investigates these themes through a variety of provocative narratives, settings, and forms: from a prose poem about a gun shop owner ranting...

Underneath

Martha Johnson wants to be a good mother and a devoted wife. It’s all she’s ever wanted in life, and she tries her very best, but when her husband threatens to leave her, her desperation reveals only one strategy that can save her family, punish her ungrateful husband, and earn power: murder.

From the caves

*WINNER of the 2021 Foreword Indie Book Award in Literature*Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devast...

The sadness of whirlwinds

The stories in Jim Peterson’s The Sadness of Whirlwinds lead readers through inscrutable realms of both the known and the unknown, provoking them to challenge their own notions of love, death, truth, and reality.

Deadheading and other stories

From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

American bastard

American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the life of being a bastard, sandblasting the myth of the “chosen baby.”

Volando bajito

Vision

We generous

Washing a language

"Laurel Ann Bogen is an admirable poet with a distinctive voice. In this fascinating book, again and again she transforms her moments of joy, the wounds she has suffered, into a mouth, speaking her terse and immaculate poems, and often, miraculously, breaking into song." —Edward Field

Waking bodies

Waiting for the beloved

A patrimony of fishes

Passing

The paradelle

The silicon valley diet and other stories

Sex

Rumor of cortez

Rorschach art

View from a burning bridge

Unfree associations

A bug collection

Confessions of a headmaster

In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve social justice through education for all youth: from children of celebrities to foster and incarce...

Golden ghetto