Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. ALL WE ASK IS YOU TO BE HAPPY is a collection of prose poetry that lives at the nexus of several possible futures: the diaspora and homeland, performativity and the real, android and animal, a girl and her f...
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Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. BASS 1998 is a collection of flash fiction inspired by, inhabiting, and misrepresenting the 1998 installment of the Best American Short Stories anthology series. Each story is in convers...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. RONNIE SPECTOR IN ROCK GOMORRAH tells the story of a singer trapped in a world that is dominated by white production. This collection brings together the resonance between race and...
Fiction. In five stories of genre and structure, of dissolution and fracturing, GENERICS explores the edges and ends of female identity: societal expectations of beauty, the transience of girlhood, postpartum depression, cinematic stereotypes of wom...
Poetry. Alysse Kathleen McCanna's debut poetry collection interrogates the self through the concept of pentimento. An art historical term, pentimento occurs when traces of previous work are revealed, indicating the artist changed aspects of her comp...
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. ON THE MEZZANINE is a lyrical, intertextual work that explores an unfolding relationship between the unnamed narrator and her lover, C., to whom the writing is addressed. The lives of the two characters are thro...
Poetry. These condensed, narrative poems all describe initial-contact experiences with alien societies and exoplanetary civilizations, in the form of summary reports from diplomatic missions or expeditionary forces that encounter failures of communi...
Fiction. WE portrays the havoc that the threat of an immigration raid wreaks upon a surprisingly wide diversity of the residents of a suburban American community. Told in a series of vignettes that dip in and out of the lives of not only those in da...
Poetry. In language that shifts between striking lyricism and deceptive narrative directness, the poems in MIGRATION deal in the compulsions and desires that propel our lives. Migration as it occurs in nature is both impelled and cyclical. This is n...
Fiction. A boy crawls through a tunnel in the Gaza Strip to bring back supplies to his family and neighbors despite the high risk of the tunnel being flooded, gassed, or bombed. On the eve of the Arab Spring in Libya, a girl and her best friend disg...
Poetry. African American Studies. DEAR GIRL: A RECKONING revisits the biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley and reimagines her journey through the Middle Passage to Boston. The poems are a gathering of ghosts whose voices shift from slaver...
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Fiction. "THE WHITE SWALLOW has so many things going for it—starkly memorable imagery, strangeness that feels natural to the story, the feeling that the story itself grew up from the earth like a tree, and an ending that defies moralization. It seem...
Poetry. Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poetry chapbook explores memory, family history, loss, and selfhood through a hypnotic and airtight series of prose poems whose focus and singularity bloom from every page. Hoffman's finely honed powers of observation...
Fiction. "Good stories destabilize a reader's view of the world. And when this happens, the experience is exciting and mystifying. BAD HABITATS is just such a remarkable read. Startling in its ambition and stunning in its achievements, the amalgamat...
Poetry. "A startlingly surreal and mytho-erotic creation, The Egg Mistress conjures unknown boundaries of eros and worlds within an egg whose origins demand the geographies of a new language: 'If I could speak mineral./ If I could only eat bonemeal....