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.

 

Nicholas Triolo

Nicholas Triolo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, activist, and long-distance trail runner. His writing and images have been featured in Orion, Outside, Terrain.org, and Trail Runner.

San Francisco, CA —

In Person: Metamorphosis contributor T.K. Rex appearing at San Francisco Lit Crawl

“I want to believe!”—but should you? In this perilous time of deception, demagoguery, and suckers born every minute, The Fabulist has assembled a knockout lineup of Bay Area writers, poets, and activists who wield fantastical fictions to say true things about our beating human hearts—and who tell true tales to confront exploitative popular narratives.

Duluth, MN —

Amy & Dave Freeman at Bent Paddle Brewing

Hosted by Bent Paddle, Zenith Bookstore, and the Boundary Waters Action Fund

Amy & Dave Freeman will share some tales of adventure from their new book, NORTH AMERICAN ODYSSEY. Books will be available to purchase. Discussion will focus on how environmental issues witnessed during the writing of the Freeman’s newest book have grown more urgent, and possible ways environmental decline can either be curtailed or perpetuated by elected officials at all levels. The importance of electing individuals who champion a sustainable future will be touched on by the writers.

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