About The Editors
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“Endlessly inquisitive and wider in scope than length, the novella proves a worthy addition to the canon of messy, strange, and keen women. Genre-bending, hard to categorize, and teeming with life.” —Kirkus Review What is your novella about? Still…
“How do we survive a body breaking and then taking us back home to the origin site of violence?…This is the story of a body not broken but reaching for beauty, a life not destroyed, but re-storied.” – Lidia Yuknavitch,…
Give us the elevator pitch for your book. In the wake of my mother’s death, I uncovered boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that brought to light a family ghost: my uncle Jack, who disappeared during the…
What is your novel about? Soon after her husband’s tragic death, Robin Besher makes a startling discovery: He had recklessly blown through their entire savings on decrepit rentals in Four Points, the Appalachian town Robin grew up in. Forced to…
What is your middle-grade novel about? The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh (Fitzroy Books) is about an eleven-year-old girl who reluctantly moves from the Midwest to Southern California. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, Grace is caught in…
“At a time when anti-immigration vitriol substitutes for immigration policy, No Option but North deftly blends heartbreaking migrant accounts with cogent insights into the systemic causes that make the trek north an almost impossible option if you’re poor and from…