Books published by Sowilo Press

The winner of The Eludia Award, the stories in this collection range widely in setting and era, including France during World War II, Maine in the early eighteenth century, and Tennessee in the twenty-first century. What the stories all have in common, however, are characters who experience life as foreigners, whether in their own countries or not, and who long for a real or imaginary "elsewhere". Each character has a different impulse that propels their longing. Each story represents a border experience, imposed from the outside or inside, that paradoxically confines and propagates the human desire to be somewhere else.

"In this sometimes comic, sometimes disquieting, always engaging story collection, Tree Riesener blends a wild narrative drive with a poet's precision with language. These stories view the sacred, the profane, and the seemingly ordinary through a wonderfully warped lens. The result is both delightful and discomforting-an impressive achievement through and through." -David Hallock Sanders, founding director of Writing Aloud, Philadelphia

Kate Thorsen investigates the death of her niece, facing the secrecy of the Mohave tribe, a defrocked Pentecostal preacher ex-husband and a family-run criminal gang that holds the reservation in terror.

Set against the tense background of Northern Ireland's Troubles, The Accidental Wife follows the twists and turns of the McCann family over seven decades.
How many generations will these secrets destroy? Marion Smith has a secret. So does Colette McCann. Why did Matthew Jordan slip his passport into his pocket before he kissed his wife goodbye and drove to work? In a land riddled with suspicion and fear, secrets are not easy to keep. How long can Marion Smith hide what happened in Derry at the height of the Second World War? How many generations will her secret destroy? Lies, half-truths and omissions litter the stories of the McCann family, spanning seventy years of Northern Ireland's turbulent history. Who will come through unscathed and who will pay for the sins of the fathers?

Aubrey writes at the end of the twentieth century, interpreting a 
hitherto unknown ancient manuscript. Marina is the scribe who writes that
 manuscript at the end of the first century AD, from her exile on an Italian island.