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Awards & Prizes

Jackson Holbert Wins 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Milkweed Staff
… Prizes We are thrilled to announce that Jackson Holbert is the winner of the 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize . His manuscript Winter … describes Winter Stranger as follows: “In this beautiful book, poems of life are tempered by the shadow of mortality. … We are thrilled to announce that Jackson Holbert is the winner of the 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize . His …

David Keplinger

… David Keplinger David Keplinger is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Another City , … from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Colorado Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Minds on Fire Award, … David Keplinger is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Another …

Alex Lemon

… Alex Lemon Alex Lemon is a poet and the author of two memoirs: Happy , selected by Kirkus as a best memoir, … Mosquito , Hallelujah Blackout , Fancy Beasts , The Wish Book , and Another Last Day . Lemon’s writing has appeared in … Alex Lemon is a poet and the author of two memoirs: Happy , selected by Kirkus as a …
Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: November

Milkweed Staff
… / Roundup This month we’re recommending books hot off the press as well as ones we’ve loved for years, and we’ve really covered the field in terms of genre: we’ve got novels, short stories, nonfiction, … I had that rare feeling of wanting to re-read the book as soon as I finished.   HANS Girl, Woman, Other: A …
Hybrid / Poetry

Philip Metres : Shrapnel Maps

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 07/01/2020
… Half dream, half nightmare, all real. Filled with the remnants of what people hope for and what they are willing to do, and … things. DN: One of the main juxtapositions in your past book Sand Opera is between the horrors of Abu Ghraib and … Half dream, half nightmare, all real. Filled with the remnants of what people hope for and what they are …

J. Drew Lanham

… J. Drew Lanham A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love … the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. … A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of  The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s …
News

Meet our 2020 Fellows

Milkweed Staff
… and it is our great hope that they will contribute to the expansion of our field in the future.” — DANIEL SLAGER , Publisher & … experience, and exposure necessary to pursue a career in book publishing. Intended to provide an alternative route to … and it is our great hope that they will contribute to the expansion of our field in the future.”  —DANIEL SLAGER, …
Editors / Authors / Interviews

A Conversation with Dalia Rosenfeld

… / Authors / Interviews Credit: Sarah Dougherty I received The Worlds We Think We Know on submission a few years ago, … like these. I sat down to talk with her before her recent book launch in Minneapolis. Joey McGarvey: This is your first … commonalities I see between the stories. There’s a sense of displacement the characters feel, a sense of uprootedness. …

Lee Ann Roripaugh

… Lee Ann Roripaugh Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five collections of poems. Her first collection,  Beyond … named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award. Her third collection, On the Cusp of a Dangerous … Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five collections of poems. Her first …

Scott Chaskey

… Scott Chaskey Scott Chaskey is the author of Soil and Spirit . He is also the author of a memoir, This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm , and a book of nonfiction, Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, … Scott Chaskey is the author of Soil and Spirit . He is also the author of a …