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Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, All Heathens explores the speaker's Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery.

Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art in vibrant language.

A rollicking, wide-reaching annotated soundtrack of pop stars, phone psychics, Elvis impersonators, and other marvels of the human voice.

Winner of the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction; Campbell has published one other book, JOURNEY INTO MOTHERHOOD: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery. Though it was published with Riverhead in 1996, it¿s still relevant to note that this book sold more than 10k copies and earned Campbell a $20,000 advance at the time. ; Campbell¿s work is largely focused on, as Campbell puts it, ¿bodies marked by memory,¿ and several of these stories specifically look at women who are having to overcome a history of violations against their bodies. As Campbell herself writes, this is timely and aligns with the conversations of the #MeToo movement. Campbell, too, is very vocal about her own history dealing with rape and the judiciary processes that follow, and she has dedicated her working career to fighting for women¿s rights and helping women. These stories are SO important. ; Director of Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing. ; In the past has worked for California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco Women¿s Building Collective, and San Francisco State University Creative Writing Department. ; Though she graduated from both in the 70s, she has contacts from her undergrad (Standford) and her MA (San Francisco State University). She earned her MFA in 2013 from Bennington Writing Seminars. Campbell has also participated in Tin House Summer Workshops, Bread Loaf Writer¿s Conference, Napa Valley Writing Conference, New Harmony Writer¿s Workshop, and Juniper Summer Writing Institute. ; In just the last few years, Campbell¿s stories have won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Mary C. Mohr Prize for Fiction, the Briar Cliff Review Fiction Award, and she has been named a finalist for prizes from Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Belleview Literary Review.

In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country¿whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book¿s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem ¿July.¿ In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.

This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called "witches" of the past and considers parallels to present-day questions of social justice.

In Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy-how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted.

Index of Haunted Houses is an investigation of longing and belonging, of haunting as a mode of living.

This book-length erasure of pages from Stephen King's Misery reimagines the novel's themes of constraint and possibility through beautiful, mixed-media poems.

This glowing debut explores the wonders and cruelties occurring within nature, science, and religion. Its poems pulse like starlight.

Pitting tiny heroes against tiny villains, Robert Yune explores issues of familial and cultural identity in modern-day America.

Noam Dorr, a former intelligence analyst, explores the strange experience of Middle East conflict driven in part by cutting-edge technology.

These off-kilter love poems deconstruct the historical, pop-culture imbibed tropes of American queerness. Cerebral, stunning.