Join publisher Milkweed Editions, acclaimed authors, and your fellow readers across the country and around the world for an evening celebrating forty years of inspiring writers and the power of books in our lives. More details here!
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For the third episode of What Matters Most, author Margaret Renkl joins us from her backyard and gives us a personal tour of her “pollinator garden,” where she has intentionally planted seeds that serve as refuge and fuel for the bees and butterflies who traverse her home in middle-Tennessee.
“It’s really a great comfort—if we had to be locked in our houses anyway— that it happened in the springtime when there is so much new life and that is…
Milkweed Editions is pleased to announce that torrin a. greathouse has won the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. For her poetry collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, greathouse will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions this December.
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018) and assistant editor of The Shallow Ends. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her work is published or forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, …
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Elizabeth Grey grew up on Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shores and spent much of her adult life moving around the country’s northern latitudes. Her interest in birds was sparked by a red-shafted northern flicker who hung around the feeder outside her dining room window.
Constant Laval Williams earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, where he received the Beau J. Boudreaux Poetry Award.
Please join us Thursday, September 24, for the 2026 Book Lovers Ball, Milkweed Editions’ signature fundraising gala. Join guest speaker Gary Paul Nabhan and fellow book lovers at the Minneapolis Institute of Art to celebrate and raise funds for transformative literature. Tickets will sell quickly—to secure yours, reserve them today!
Join Gary Paul Nabhan at Dragonfly Books for a reading and conversation of his latest work, Water in the Desert.
Join Gary Paul Nabhan at Changing Hands Bookstore for a reading and conversation of his latest work, Water in the Desert.
