Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Drama African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Nonfiction Chapbook Contest. How can you return to where you've never been? ( GHOST GESTURES ) conjures diaspo...
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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. A poetry collection meets cookbook, MOTHER TONGUE celebrates the recipe as a testament to women's labor and communal care, transmitt...
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. The stories in Alejandro Heredia's YOU'RE THE ONLY FRIEND I NEED offer new possibilities for transnational sto...
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...
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...
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...