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Devon Walker-Figueroa Wins 2020 National Poetry Series

Milkweed Staff
… to announce that Devon Walker-Figueroa has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2020. Her manuscript Philomath … eats locusts and every daughter is blonde. If one of the book’s motives is ’Find[ing] a way out of this valley named … Walker-Figueroa has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2020. Her manuscript Philomath …

Daniel Slager

… Daniel Slager Daniel Slager is the Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed as … appearance in print in the United States. His most recent book-length translation was Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria … Daniel Slager is the Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining …
Authors / Watch & Listen

Remembering Max Ritvo

… up to our booth during Justin Boening ’s first-ever book signing (“Justin Boening, sign my chest! ” he yelled, shouldering his way through the crowd), and then more officially one Friday in May 2016, when we received the manuscript of Four Reincarnations . We acquired the book just three days …

Sean Hill

… Sean Hill Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one … Sean Hill is the author of  Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and  Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one …
Authors / What Matters Most / Watch & Listen

What Matters Most | Ep. 4 Beth Dooley

Milkweed Staff
… What Matters Most / Watch & Listen Video URL Note: To view the closed captions, click the YouTube logo in the bottom … can follow along by subscribing here ! A joyful snippet of their conversation makes it into this week’s episode of … and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland , a Minnesota Book Award finalist. We are increasingly a publisher of both …
Nonfiction / Poetry

Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed

— 01/27/2026
… story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies.  What … for a memoir to assume the elusive, ever-changing shape of water, to be the story of family but where the notion of … Governing Bodies, exemplifies many of these things. A book that is deeply personal and yet global in reach. A book
Authors / What Matters Most

Jos Charles' a Year & other poems is a door left open to form, fire, and fate

Milkweed Staff
… open to form, fire, and fate Authors / What Matters Most The year is 2021, and wildfires are ravaging the West Coast. … Enter the poet Jos Charles, whose seminal collection of poems, feeld , was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and … Every fragment is a month, and each month spills into the book-length poem that captures a year unlike any other. …
Roundup

#ireadindie: International Women's Day

… International Women's Day Roundup We’re proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that … and happily rise to the occasion. This inspirational gift book encourages girls and women to seize the day, be kind to … We're proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that …
Bookstore / Roundup

Read This Next: Celia Recommends (April)

… juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a girl who finds an (imaginary?) friend … juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a …
Fiction / SF/F

Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man

— 09/01/2024
… - 8:17am Fiction / SF/F Todays’ guest is Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy Nalo Hopkinson. Together we center her first novel in over a decade, the remarkable Blackheart Man, and look at what it means to … differences, deeply Caribbean.  Blackheart Man  is a book exploring the “what-ifs” in the histories of marronage …