Woodstock, NY —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at The Golden Notebook Woodstock
Join author Jennifer Kabat for discussion around her book The Eighth Moon.
Ithaca, NY —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at Buffalo Street Books with Adrian Shirk
Join authors Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shirk in conversation about The Eighth Moon.
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: 2024 Book Lovers Ball
Experience the power of life-changing literature with Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, author of the forthcoming memoir Becoming Little Shell. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.
Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
Southampton, NY —
In-person: Scott Chaskey appearing at Stony Brook South Hampton at “Writers Speak Wednesday”
Join Scott Chaskey for Writer’s Speak Wednesday at Stony Brook University.
Streaming: https: www.youtube.com/mfawriting
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Dorothy Chan Book Launch at Milkweed Books
Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes award-winning author Dorothy Chan for a reading from their new poetry book Return of the Chinese Femme, an unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness. Dorothy will read from their book and sit in conversation alongside poet Douglas Kearney, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.
Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 6 p.m.
About the book
The speaker in Dorothy Chan’s fifth collection, Return of the Chinese…
Craig Popelars
Craig Popelars is the Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Milkweed Editions. A thirty-year publishing veteran, Craig previously served as the Publisher of Tin House Books in Portland, Oregon and as the Associate Publisher and Marketing & Sales Director of Algonquin Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. During his publishing tenure, he has published and promoted critically acclaimed and bestselling authors including Julia Alvarez, Ross Gay, Tayari Jones, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Gabrielle Zevin, Morgan Talty, and Hanif Abdurraqib. Craig earned his BA in English Literature and History at Appalachian State, and when he’s not reading or listening to vinyl…
News
Craig Popelars joins Milkweed as new VP, Sales & Marketing
Effective March 18, 2024, Craig Popelars has joined Milkweed Editions in the newly created role of Vice President, Sales & Marketing. Popelars was previously the publisher of Tin House Books, and the associate publisher of Algonquin Books
Daniel Slager, Publisher and CEO of Milkweed, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Craig to the Milkweed team. We’ve had some wind in our sails in the marketplace over the last few years, and we are all very excited to build on it.”
Popelars shared, “I’ve admired Milkweed’s storied publishing program ever since I wrote my very first bookstore shelf-talker for Larry Watson’s …
Seattle, WA —
In person: Jessica Fisher appearing at Third Place Books
Third Place Books is delighted to welcome Kevin Craft and Jessica Fisher to the Ravenna store for an evening of poetry! Craft and Fisher will be presenting their new collections of poems. This event is free and open to the public.
For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A.
Rosalie Moffett
Rosalie Moffett is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco, 2019), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June