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Announcing Multiverse and Hannah Emerson’s The Kissing of Kissing

Milkweed Staff — 08/12/2021

We are excited and humbled to announce a new literary series, Multiverse, and the first book in the series, Hannah Emerson’s The Kissing of Kissing, out April 2022.

MULTIVERSE

Multiverse is a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging, curated by neurodivergent poet Chris Martin, and featuring a chorus of editorial voices. Multiverse primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. The desire of Multiverse is to serially surface multiple universes of underheard language that might intersect, resonate, and aggregate toward liberatory futures. In other words, each book in the…

Hannah Emerson

Hannah Emerson is the author of The Kissing of Kissing. She is also the author of a chapbook, You Are Helping This Great Universe Explode.

Tara Chace

Tara Chace is the translator of Haymaker in Heaven. Her translations from the Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish include work by Jo Nesbø, Per Nilsson, Lene Kaaberbøl, and Agnete Friis. She lives in Seattle.

Edvard Hoem

Edvard Hoem is the author of Haymaker in Heaven. He has been one of Norway’s leading literary writers since his breakthrough with the Critics’ Prize–winning novel The Ferry Crossing in 1974.