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.
Li Charmaine Anne: Crash Landing
This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends.
Leanne Dunic: Wet
In photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe.
Kara Stanley: The Pain Project
The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane, thoughtful inquiry into the challenge of living with chronic pain and how Stanley and her husband navigate its impact on their lives.