Philipp Meyer

The Son

(Novel: Ecco Press, May 2013)

"" . . . raw and dazzling and brutal and real, The Son should come with its own soundtrack.” " — Téa Obreht

Katie Williams

Absent

(YA Novel: Chronicle Books, May 2013)

" A thriller... which leads to an unexpectedly transcendent and moving finale." — Kirkus Reviews

Emily Rapp

The Still Point of the Turning World

(Memoir: Penguin, March 2013)

""A beautiful, searing exploration of the landscape of grief and a profound meditation on the meaning of life."" — Kirkus Reviews

Domenica Ruta

With or Without You

(Memoir: Spiegel & Grau, February 2013)

"Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do: She has created herself." — Gary Shteyngart

Matthew Dickman

MAYAKOVSKY’S REVOLVER

(Poems: W.W. Norton, October 2012)

""Dickman is big news. He is a lifeboat filled with champagne and asthma inhalers; and his abundant talent and indie-rock spirit are humanizing and reviving American poetry."" — Tony Hoagland

Kevin Powers

The Yellow Birds

(Novel: Little Brown, Sept 2012)

2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

"...the ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT of America’s Arab wars." — Tom Wolfe

Alix Ohlin

Inside

(Novel: Knopf, June 2012)

Shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize

"Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams." — Heidi Julavits

Alix Ohlin

Signs and Wonders

(Stories: Vintage, June 2012)

"I’ve seldom come upon a book so aptly titled for what’s inside, page to page." — Richard Bausch

Michael McGriff

Home Burial

(Poems: Copper Canyon Press, May 2012)

"A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor." — Third Coast

Bruce Snider

Paradise, Indiana

(Poems: Pleiades Press/LSU, April 2012)

Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize

Patrick Ryan Frank

How the Losers Love What’s Lost

(Poems: Four Way Books, April 2012)

2010 Four Ways Books Intro Prize

"...one of the best young poets I've come across in many years." — Alan Shapiro

S.E. Smith

I Live in a Hut

(Poems: Cleveland State Poetry Center, March 2012)

Cleveland State First Book Award

"Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes." — Matthea Harvey

Brian McGreevy

Hemlock Grove

(Novel: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, March 2012)

""A wonderfully creative and twisted reinvention of classic monster archetypes, wrapped up in a mysterious thriller."" — Eli Roth

Dominic Smith

Bright and Distant Shores

(novel: Washington Sq Press (US) Allen & Unwin (AUS), 2011)

Shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

""Written with extraordinary literary grace, Smith's third novel gleams as a gem of evocative historical fiction." " — Kirkus Reviews

Jeff Hoffman

Journal of American Foreign Policy

(Poems: New Issues, 2011)

2010 New Issues Poetry Prize

"Tonic intelligence, exhilarating craftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman's fine first book is a gift to us all." — Linda Gregerson

Michael Dickman

Flies

(poems: Copper Canyon Press, 2011)

James Laughlin Award for Best Second Book

"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind." — The New Yorker

Farid Matuk

This Isa Nice Neighborhood

(Poems: Letter Machine Editions, 2010)

Selected for the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series

Lori Aurelia Williams

Maxine Banks is Getting Married

(YA novel: Roaring Book Press, 2010)

"A spot-on, unsentimental teen viewpoint; [this] honest story of love, heartbreak, and kindness will keep teens hooked." — Booklist

Joseph Skibell

A Curable Romantic

(novel: Algonquin, 2010)

2011 Sami Rohr Choice Award in Jewish LIterature

"Intellectual comedy of the highest order." — J.M. Coetzee

George Brant

Elephant’s Graveyard

(play: Samuel French, 2010)

2008 Keene Prize in Literature

"The most striking production in the New Student Drama Festival." — Times of London

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

Lidless

(play: Yale University Press, 2010)

Yale Drama Prize, Keene Prize in Literature

"[Lidless] recall[s] the political urgency which propelled a previous generation of writers into the theatre in the first place." — David Hare

Carrie Fountain

Burn Lake

(poems: Penguin, 2010)

Winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series

"I’m stunned by the power of these poems. Here’s all the real trouble we’re in: death and time and pain—held in a clear crisp collection that seems made of joy." — Marie Howe

Jake Silverstein

Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact & Fiction

(novel: W.W. Norton, 2010 )

"The great accomplishment is that the reader, in the end, does not care what is fact, what is fiction, because she has happily arrived at that much more elusive grail: truth. " — Antonya Nelson

Belinda Acosta

Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over

(YA novel: Grand Central Publishing, 2010)

2011 International Latino Book Awards, 1st Place Books into Movies

"Acosta's joyous celebration of sisterhood, motherhood, friendship, and family is an insightful read." — Publisher's Weekly

Michael McGriff, Translator

The Sorrow Gondola: Translated Poems of Tomas Tranströmer

(poems: Green Integer, 2010)

"The first single volume edition of the influential Swedish poet."

Lisa Railsback

Betti on the High Wire

(YA novel: Dial Press, 2010)

"Heartwarming and refreshing. A remarkable new voice in middle-grade fiction."

LIsa Railsback

Noonie’s Masterpiece

(YA novel: Chronicle Books, 2010)

"Fast, funny and filled wtih Noonie's wild art." — Discovery Girls

Katie Williams

The Space Between Trees

(YA novel: Chronicle Books, 2010)

"The haunting premise and honest narration will equally captivate both teen and adult readers." — BookPage

David Wevill, ed. by Michael McGriff

To Build My Shadow a Fire

(poems: Truman State Univ Press, 2010)

"A rare harvest of a lifetime's truth-telling" — Eavan Boland

Carson Kreitzer

The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer

(play: Dramatic Publishing, 2006)

Winner of The Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize

"Kreitzer has a huge vision… Oppenheimer is superb theater." — Cincinnati Inquirer

Brian Hart

Then Came the Evening

(novel: Bloomsbury, 2009)

"What an achingly beautiful and astonishing first novel." — John Dufresne

Michael Dickman

The End of the West

(poems: Copper Canyon Press, 2009)

"Dickman's book moves with careful intensity as it confidently illuminates buried, contemporary suffering." — Publishers' Weekly

Belinda Acosta

Damas, Dramas and Ana Ruiz

(YA fiction: Grand Central/Hatchett Book Group, 2009)

2011 International Latino Book Awards, 1st Place Books into Movies

"An engaging, touching book." — Julia Alvarez

Jessica Garratt

Fire Pond

(poems: University of Utah Press, 2009)

Winner of the 2008 Agha Shalid Ali Poetry Prize

"She narrates her private heartbreaks candidly but without self pity or narcissism, while infusing her work with an Emersonian sense of place." — Medbh McGuckian

James Hannaham

God Says No

(novel: McSweeney's, 2009)

"Everything a person could ask of a first novel—and twice that much. " — Jennifer Egan

Philipp Meyer

American Rust

(novel: Spiegel & Grau, 2008)

Notable Book 2009 New York Times; Book of the Year, The Economist; Ten Best Books of 2009, Washington Post; Best.Books.Ever, Newsweek.

"American Rust captures a sense of a menacing society, a wider world in the throes of decay and self-destruction." — Colm Toibin

Michael McGriff

Dismantling the Hills

(poems: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)

Winner of the 2007 Agnes Starrett Lynch Prize

"These are poems of place and generation, lyrically intense and intensely crafted." — Eavan Boland

Matthew Dickman

All American Poem

(poems: Copper Canyon Press, 2008)

Honickman First Book Prize

"Matthew Dickman's poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior intellectual pretensions." — Tony Hoagland

Philip Pardi

Meditations on Rising and Falling

(poems: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008)

Winner of the 2007 Brittingham Poetry Prize

"The real pleasure here is his willingness to . . . examine the familiar in a manner that is both gentle and startling." — Bob Hicok

Brendan Short

Dream City

(novel: MacAdam/Cage, 2008)

"Short's work is unmannered and precise, and he tells his story so invisibly well that when you reach the last page you won't expect to be haunted by it. But you will be." — Stephen Harrigan

Dominic Smith

The Beautiful Miscellaneous

(novel: Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2007)

"With an exquisite ear not just for language but for emotional truth as well, Dominic Smith has written an ambitious and strikingly unusual tale." — Julia Glass

Steven Gehrke

Michelangelo’s Seizure

(poems: University of Illinois Press, 2007)

Winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series

Emily Rapp

Poster Child

(memoir: Bloomsbury, 2007)

"Everything about Emily is uniquely wonderful: her memory; her story; her voice; her human insights; her endless strength, honesty and grace; her pitch-perfect prose." — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Jenny Browne

The Second Reason

(Poems: Univ of Tampa Press, 2007)

"There is a surprising calm in the wild leaps this poetry makes, as if the poet is at home with the unpredictable and intent upon bringing us there with her. " — Laura Kasischke

Dominic Smith

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

(novel: Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2006)

Winner of the 2006 Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters

"As beautiful as if it were written not in words but in light." — Stephen Harrigan

Alix Ohlin

Babylon

(stories: Knopf, 2005)

"Ohlin’s stories are animated by an intelligence that defies the restraints of literary categories with rare composure and a quiet, almost self-effacing, assurance." — The New York Times

John McManus

Bitter Milk

(novel: Picador, 2005)

"[It] consolidates John McManus's place as one of the most powerful and original American writers of the twenty-first century." — Madison Smartt Bell

Sam Taylor

The Body of the World

(poems: Ausable Press, 2005)

"One of the most astonishing first books I have encountered in years." — Joseph Stroud

Lori Aurelia Williams

Broken China

(YA novel: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

Winner of PEN/Phyllis Naylor Fellowship

Alix Ohlin

The Missing Person

(novel: Knopf, 2005)

"A wonderful debut by a terrific young writer." — Chris Offut

Robert Ford

The Student Conductor

(novel: Putnam, 2003)

"[The Student Conductor] brings uncommon musical sophistication to bear on a love story also fraught with personality clashes and politics." — The New York Times

John McManus

Stop Breakin’ Down

(stories: Picador, 2003)

"Here is rage on the page . . . . It’s a whole environment, with a new food chain, and yes, I want to know about it." — Los Angeles Times

Jenny Browne

At Once

(Poems: Univ of Tampa Press, 2003)

Honorable Mention, 2002 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry

"These poems are grounded in the human, in the bloom and wither of daily life with all its surprise, mystery, and disappointment."

Shao Wei

Pulling a Dragon’s Teeth

(poems: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)

Winner of the 2002 Agnes Starrett Lynch Prize

"This poetry is humorous, magical . . . and sad in a very familiar way, as if we were partly living in the lost East Sichuan province of Shao Wei's childhood, partly lost among the living in New York." — Jean Valentine

Joseph Skibell

The English Disease

(novel: Algonquin Books, 2003)

"A wildly funny novel that is equal parts Philip Roth, Groucho Marx, and Woody Allen." — Booklist

Kate Sterns

Down There by the Train

(novel: Shaye Areheart, 2003)

"It cannot be long before [Sterns] is mentioned in the same breath as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro." — The Sunday Telegraph

Lori Aurelia Williams

Shayla’s Double Brown Baby Blues

(YA novel: Simon & Schuster, 2003)

"This poetically written and powerful novel has a lyrical quality and emotional honesty similar to Maya Angelous’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." — Voice of Youth Advocates

Arthur Bradford

Dogwalker

(stories: : Knopf, 2002)

"Stories that are sweet, haunting, resonant, generous, and true the way only the very strange is true." — David Foster Wallace

Steven Gehrke

The Pyramids of Malpaghi

(poems: Anhinga Press, 2002)

"His style is already idiosyncratic in the best sense—his thumbprint is clear." — T.R. Hummer

Bruce Snider

The Year We Studied Women

(poems: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)

Winner of the 2003 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

"[These poems] are content and courageous enough to be what they are: observant, expressive, sometimes sad, sometimes slyly witty." — Kelly Cherry

Lori Aurelia Williams

When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune

(YA novel: Simon & Schuster, 2001)

"Intrigues, breaks hearts, then soars. Williams is superb." — Angela Johnson

Steven Gehrke

The Resurrection Machine

(poems: BkMk Press, 2000)

"[These] poems offer us a profoundly moving evocation of illness, death, and a surprising and redemptive faith." — Nicole Cooley

John McManus

Born on a Train

(stories: Picador, 2000)

"A phenomenal talent blazing up suddenly on the horizon." — Elle

Karla Kuban

Marchlands

(novel: Scribner, 1999)

"Marchlands is more than a fine first novel. It’s as wise, tough, tender, and terrific a coming-of-age yarn as one could wish for." — John Barth

Marlys West

Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr

(poems: University of Akron Press, 1999)

"Marlys Wests’s poems do jazz with our brains. What a refreshing wonder she is!" — Naomi Shihab Nye

Joseph Skibell

A Blessing on the Moon

(novel: Algonquin Books, 1997)

Winner of the 1998 Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters

"Startlingly original." — Washington Post Book World