Authors / Roundup

2024 Book Lovers Holiday Gift Guide

Milkweed Staff — 11/26/2024

Because reading is life-changing, and books make the best gifts! In addition to our perennial favorite gift book, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our hand-selected recommendations are here to help you work through your holiday list.

Join our membership program to support the publication of life-changing literature like this and receive a 20% discount on all Milkweed books! Learn more here.

For the romantic adventurer:
North American Odyssey by Amy & Dave Freeman

Imagine taking a 12,000 mile journey from the Pacific Northwest, through Canada, and all the way down the…

Authors / Awards & Prizes

[...] by Fady Joudah is a 2024 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry

Milkweed Staff — 11/19/2024

Please join us in honoring and celebrating […] by Fady Joudah, 2024 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

“Fady Joudah’s […] scribes the elliptical seam between heritage and history into a sustained meditation on war, displacement, and love. Punctuated with the music of maqam in the marrow of its mission, this timeless collection illuminates an existential Palestinian struggle that rises to the universal through Joudah’s deft, querying verse.”—National Book Award judges citation

From the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize winner and one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, this urgent and essential collection combats the erasure of Palestinian resistance and…

Miami, FL —

In-Person: Ava Nathaniel Winter in Conversation with Jessica Jacobs at the Miami Book Fair

Join the panel “HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER” for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots of sacred texts. Structured around the 12 parshiyot (portions) of Genesis, JESSICA JACOBS’ unalone parallels immersion in Jewish teachings with the contemporary world and the author’s experiences growing up queer, embracing one’s sexuality, reversing roles as the adult child of aging parents, and other imposed roles of…

Natalie Wollenzien

Natalie Wollenzien is the marketing and publicity coordinator at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed, she worked in marketing and operations for Sarabande Books, and has written freelance reviews for Foreword Reviews since 2023. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Morissa Young

Morissa Young is an editor at Milkweed Editions. Before joining the team, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the UNCW Publishing Laboratory, editorial and acquisitions lead at Lookout Books, and spread designer for Ecotone. She earned her MFA in poetry and certificate in publishing from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington, and her BA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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Minneapolis, MN —

Canceled: Bonnie Jo Campbell at Open Book

This event has been canceled. We apologize, and hope you can join us on December 11 with Rick Barot and Danez Smith.

 

Milkweed Books presents National Book Award finalist BONNIE JO CAMPBELL. Bonnie will be reading from her latest novel, The Waters, out now in paperback. Program will include an interview with long-time fan Lisa Durose and a book signing.

 

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