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Between the Covers
Fiction / SF/F

Elvia Wilk : Oval

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 08/01/2019
… William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and … go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk’s crisp and stylish debut book.”—McKenzie Wark Read more about Elvia Wilk : Oval …
Authors / Submissions / Awards & Prizes

Bo Hee Moon Wins the Ninth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff
… Bo Hee Moon Wins the Ninth Annual Jake Adam York Prize Authors / Submissions / … Photograph by Christopher Zebo ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2024–25 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE Milkweed Editions and … that judge Matthew Olzmann has chosen Bo Hee Moon’s book Birthstones in the Province of Mercy as the winner of …
Jake Adam York Prize

Morissa Young

… Young is an editor at Milkweed Editions. Before joining the team, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the UNCW Publishing Laboratory, editorial and acquisitions … poetry and certificate in publishing from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington, and her BA in creative writing …
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Between the Covers
Fiction / Hybrid / Nonfiction / Poetry

Melanie Rae Thon : As If Fire Could Hide Us

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/10/2023
… David Naimon, Milkweed Editions Melanie Rae Thon’s latest book, As If Fire Could Hide Us , is described not as a novel with three chapters, nor as a collection of three stories, but as “a love song in three movements.” … as movements? How does writing from or toward love change the music of our sentences or lines, the shapes of our …
Podcast
Between the Covers
Fiction / SF/F

Zadie Smith : Grand Union

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 10/21/2019
… “Grand Union is an unusual creature, combining all the experimental exuberance of a writer discovering a form with the technical prowess of … The result is exhilarating. Between the covers of one book, readers will find such disparate forms as allegory, … “Grand Union is an unusual creature, combining all the experimental exuberance of a writer discovering a form …

Hajjar Baban

… , Poetry Daily , and Hayden’s Ferry Review , where she won the 2025 Poetry Contest, selected by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Baban is also a cofounder of … Collective. LOW FLYING PLANES is her first full-length book of poems. … , Poetry Daily , and Hayden’s Ferry Review , where she won the 2025 Poetry Contest, selected by Hieu Minh Nguyen. …
Podcast
Between the Covers
Hybrid / Poetry

Danez Smith : Bluff

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 11/08/2024
… Editions Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their … that questions poetry itself and even more so, questions the poet, a poetry that is continually in the process of … Nam Le for the New Your Times, speaking of Smith’s new book Bluff,  doesn’t just suggest that this book is a major …
Authors / Interviews

The Company of Owls: Author Q&A with Polly Atkin

Brianna Reed
… The Company of Owls: Author Q&A with Polly Atkin Authors / Interviews In … sat down with author Polly Atkin—recently longlisted for the 2025 Wainwright prize —to discuss the kinds of company we … Milkweed Staff: One of your most striking sections of the book, “Uplokkid,” reckons with the pandemic. To quote a …