Page Getz, A Town with Half the Lights On
A Town with Half the Lights On is a tender testament to the notions that home isn’t just the place you live, family isn’t just your relatives, and it’s almost never easy to find the courage to do what’s right.
Scotty Olsen: My Grandmother, My Kookum
Scotty Olsen’s essay My Grandmother, My Kookum is published in the International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine Fourth Quarterly Edition 2024.
Meredith Hambrock: She’s a Lamb!
She’s a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion.
Shane Goth: Hannah and the Wrong Note
A young pianist realizes that mistakes can sometimes lead to joyful discoveries in this melodic picture book.
Lauren Grant: Body Rubble
Lauren Grant’s essay “Body Rubble” was recently published in GRIFFEL’s March 2025 issue.
Suzanne Kamata: River of Dolls and Other Stories
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between desire and duty, as well as the conflicting expectations of different cultures.
Léa Taranto: A Drop in the Ocean
An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.
Minelle Mahtani: May It Have a Happy Ending
A searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice.
Tonya Lailey: Farm: Lot 23
Tonya Lailey’s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agriculture.
Catherine Young: Black Diamonds
A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.