Robert Colman: Ghost Work
Ghost Work is a suite of poems that explores a son’s gradual loss of his father from dementia.
Jane Baird Warren: How to Be a Goldfish
How to Be a Goldfish is a compelling, heartfelt, humorous read about acceptance and understanding, and will provide a gentle introduction to discussions about alternative families, homosexuality, feminism, forced adoptions and social justice.
Sonia Di Placido: Flesh
Flesh – a composite of poems perceived, evoked, discovered, moving between and among sensory boundaries as they eschew forward, backward or around exterior life to interior.
Suzanne Kamata: Cinnamon Beach
Cinnamon Beach is a multicultural tragicomedy, told from three female perspectives.
Tammy Armstrong: Pearly Everlasting
In a narrative sown with rural folklore and superstition, Pearly Everlasting is an enchanting woodland Gothic about the triumph of good over evil and the forgotten beauty of the natural world.
Rob Taylor: Weather
Rob Taylor’s poetry collection, Weather, is a book of small poems, mostly haiku. Taylor wrote 156 poems, one per week through the first three years of life of his second child.
Sara Power: Art of Camouflage
A powerful debut about the lives of girls and women caught in the orbit of the military.
RJ McDaniel: All Things Seen and Unseen
RJ McDaniel’s novel is an incisive reflection on identity and wealth, and a refreshing racial queer story of survival.
Erin McGregor: What Fills Your House Like Smoke
E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal line.
Yilin Wang: The Lantern and the Night Moths
The Lantern and the Night Moths is Yilin Wang’s love letter to modern and classical Chinese poetry, the art of literary translation, and Sino diaspora communities.