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Caroline Harper New

… Caroline Harper New Caroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds , winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr … ecopoetic short films, painting exhibitions, children’s book illustrations, and ethnographic research in Madagascar. … Caroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds , winner of the 2023 …

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 …

Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Mikeas Sánchez

… Mikeas Sánchez Mikeas Sánchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems . She is one of … Mexico. She is the only woman to have ever published a book of poetry in that language. Her six volumes of … Mikeas Sánchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems . She …

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 …

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 …