Books published by Gival Press

"Winner of the Gival Press novel award"--Page 4 of cover.

"Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award."

After getting dumped by her boyfriend, a midwestern woman moves to New York to live on her own for the first time.

"The Pleasuring of Men is the coming-of-age story of Tom Vaughan, a gay man living in New York City in the nineteenth century.

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award, "The Cannibal of Guadalajara" is a refreshing dark comedy, with a range of characters who commingle between Mexico and Manhattan among their nightmares and dreams. Winner gives the reader surprises of sex and romance and paints a sympathetic and precise description of their world. Wildly imaginative, it paints a lush yet pointedly satirical portrait of New Yorkers in love and lust, baby boomers in mid-life misadventures, Gen-Xers in the grip of perennial childhood, and the aspirations that have led them all astray.

"I hope you like the powerful and evocative poems in Museum of False Startsas much as I do. I especially admire how skillfully Chip Livingston makes the ordinary exotic, erotic and extraordinary."-Ai

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. 2009 Winner of the Los Angeles Book Festival Poetry Award

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award. 2010 Finalist Texas Book Award for Fiction.

Gay poetry: ""Gregg Shapiro's stunning debut marks the arrival of a new master poet on the scene. His work blows me away."" -Greg Herren

Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award for Fiction

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. Poems rooted in Greece and its women.

Erotic gay poetry by award-winner poet Jeff Mann.

A collection of stories.Honorable Mention: 2011 London Book Festival for General Fiction

"Casillo's surprising and accomplished collection reveals a heartfelt observer of life's emotional emergencies and indignities told with immediacy and feeling."

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award-Honorable Mention for Poetry

Writers Notes Magazine Book Notable Award for the Young Adult Literature Category

A study of prosody in poetry with various languages and English translations.

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award.""...this rich and vibrant collection of poetry [is] not only serious and insightful, but a sheer delight to read."" -Jane Butkin Roth

Winner of the Lammy Award for Lesbian Poetry. Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award.

A historical novel about Aldous Huxley and his circle "astonishingly alive and accurate." -Roger Lathbury, George Mason University

Collection includes the award-winning poetry collection "Find Shards from Sussex" and new poems.

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. This rich whirl of the dervish traverses a grand expanse from bars to crazy dreams to fruition of desire.

Psaltery and Serpentines kisses its readers on the mouth so that the poetry becomes 'the ripe fruit to . . . lips,' and one wakes to loving poetry, this poetry in particular. Cecilia Martinez-Gil welcomes the reader into the world of poetry as a partner in the creative act, and readers engage this book-length seduction as tango partners and 'symphonic creatures.' ...Opening this book to any of its poems will weep the imagination into the poet's creation, and its reviewer's lips will burn for hundreds of kisses. -Rich Murphy, author of Voyeur and judge for the 2009 Gival Press Poetry Award

"Really clicking, Second Acts, is a picaresque, sci-fi/western, such as Verne or Welles might have penned it, but with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Tim W. Brown's tale of a husband's search for his fugitive wife takes readers on a whirlwind tour of America, circa 1830. In subverting history Brown's tale celebrates it, with a scholar's eye for authentic details and at a pacing so swift the pages give off a nice breeze." - Peter Selgin

This international anthology of poetry in English, French, and Spanish includes notable poets Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, and 150 other poets. The poems transcend borders, be they personal, cultural, or national.