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.

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

Milkweed Staff — 03/19/2024

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 …