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Milkweed Presents: Found Ancestry with K. Iver

K. Iver hosts a talk with Danez Smith, Eli Erlick, and Dorothy Chan about searching for lineage outside the families into which we are born: the mentor, the barber, the historical figure, the queer “uncle,” the unapologetic pop star. Together, they’ll explore how these sources can and do stitch belonging where it’s been severed.

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Community Partner Spotlight: Women's Prison Book Project

Brianna Reed — 02/18/2025

Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

As a publisher, we join in thoughtful partnerships to “build an engaged community” around the books and authors we publish. Sometimes partners are community organizations, libraries, or independent bookstores who host readings with the authors we publish. And sometimes our partners are organizations with connections to specific communities of readers that we may not otherwise reach through bookstore, digital, library, or other traditional publishing channels. One such partner is the Women’s