Falcon Heights, MN —
Michael Kleber-Diggs reads at Eggroll Queen Music Cafe
Join Michael Kleber-Diggs for a poetry reading at the Eggroll Queen Music Cafe on Sunday, August 15th at 2:00pm (CT)! More details here!
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.
Ezra E. Fitz
Ezra E. Fitz is the translator of The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon. He has worked with Grammy-winning musician Juanes, Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos, and the king of soccer himself, Pelé.
Authors
A Whale in the Amazon Forest: a Cover Image Story
by: Fábio Zuker
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A whale in the amazon forest: a cover image story
“Space and time move in mutual dependence. It’s as if rivers, lakes, and forests can slow or even halt the passage of time as it’s traditionally conceived: an arrow shot across a smooth surface. It’s not like a car driving down the road. In the Amazon, time will take its time, at least as long as there are rivers and forests.”
I decided to quote an excerpt from my book, The Life and Death of a Minke Whale and Other Stories of the Brazilian Rainforest—which…
Fábio Zuker
Fábio Zuker is a writer and journalist. He holds a master’s degree from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris and is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo.
Jenara Nerenberg
Jenara Nerenberg is a publicity consultant for Milkweed Editions. A producer and literary agent, Jenara is also the author of Divergent Mind, creator of The Neurodiversity Project & The Interracial Project, and founder of Divergent Literary, a full-service literary agency representing neurodivergent authors and allies. Raised in San Francisco, she is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard and spent six years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, reporting for CNN, Fast Company and elsewhere. Her bestselling author interview series occur live in person, sometimes on Instagram, and appear in print at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good and the Garrison Institute, featuring Roxane Gay, Pico Iyer, Omid Safi, Darnell Moore, Gabor Mate, Steve Silberman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Sundance’s Kamal Sinclair, angel Kyodo williams, Netflix’s Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Krista Tippett and others. Jenara is proudly neurodivergent, collaborates widely, and sends out event announcements at Microphone in Her Throat. She is thrilled to be at Milkweed promoting its fantastic authors.
Authors
Ready to Take Flight: A Cover Image Story
When someone writes a book about anything the first thing they are often asked is: HOW?
How did you find the time, the topic, the means to get it out of your insides and into the outside world for all to see? When someone writes a book that takes as its subject matter their own personal lived experiences – those which might range from deeply unsettling – to upsetting – or even traumatising; perhaps the question most commonly asked is: WHY?
Why would you put yourself through it? Why would you unearth that pain? Why would…
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Kerri nÍ Dochartaigh’s first book, Thin Places, was published in Spring 2022 in the US. It was an Indies Introduce selection for Winter/Spring 2022, an Indie Next selection for April 2022, and A Junior Library Guild selection for Spring 2022. Cacophony of Bone is her second book. She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her family.