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Makenna Goodman

… Makenna Goodman Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame , which was named a Best Book of the Year by the Harvard Review and The White … Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame , which was named a Best Book of the Year by the Harvard Review and The White …

Rick Barot

… Rick Barot Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones . He was born in the Philippines, grew up … for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord, which was a finalist for the LA Times … Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones . He was born in the …

Ada Limón

… Ada Limón Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate and the editor of the national bestselling anthology You Are Here: Poetry in … of poems, including The Carrying , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN /Jean … Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate and the editor of the …

Lauret Savoy

… writer, photographer, and pilot, Lauret Savoy is a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage. The author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American … of ourselves in this land. Trace won the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. It was also a …

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Announcing three new books by Ada Limón

Milkweed Staff

… books from award-winning poet and newly appointed host for the critically acclaimed podcast The Slowdown Ada Limón . Following the critical success of Limón’s 2018 collection The Carrying , The Hurting Kind —a … read by the author will be released in tandem. The second book in the deal, Beast: An Anthology of Animal Poems , …

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Presence and Absence: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff

… Absence: A Cover Image Story Authors by Victoria Chang The cover for Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief , emerged organically, in the same way that this book emerged. After my mother died, there was the obvious grieving of my mother as body, as mind, as caretaker, but I was …

Hayan Charara

… Hayan Charara Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit . He is a poet, children’s book author, essayist, and editor. His other collections of … Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That …

Jennifer duBois

… Jennifer duBois Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language . Her first novel, A Partial History of … Award for Debut Novel and winner of the California Book Award for First Work of Fiction. Soon after its … Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language . Her first novel, A Partial …

Fady Joudah

… Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is the author of […] , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, … Fady Joudah is the author of […] , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, …

Deirdre McNamer

… Deirdre McNamer Deirdre McNamer is the author of five novels: Aviary , Rima in the Weeds , One Sweet … , and Red Rover , which was a winner of the Montana Book Award and was named a best book of the year by Artforum … Deirdre McNamer is the author of five novels: Aviary , Rima in the Weeds , One …