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The Legacy Series in Short Fiction
The Larry Watson First Novel Prize
The Linda Nemec Foster First Book Award for Poetry
The Portage Poetry Series
The Back Home Series in Creative Nonfiction
The Heritage Series
Fall 2026
$24.95 | 11/26 | 220 pp
978-1-968148-81-2
The Loneliness of Glass
Kathleen Furin
Grappling with complicity, the characters in The Loneliness of Glass struggle as they learn how an intent to “save” others is often fraught with hypocrisy and can lead to self-destruction.
“Incandescent . . . Furin is a major new talent.”
—Jonathan Vatner, author of Carnegie Hill
$24.95 | 11/26 | 220 pp
978-1-968148-56-0
Ask Me About the Money
Keith Lesmeister
With profound empathy, searing details, and propulsive scenes, these stories introduce situations at once simple and profound. Keith Pilapil Lesmeister tunes our hearts to the powerful frequency of money.
“Deeply felt, generous, big-hearted stories.”
—Andrew Porter, author of The Imagined Life
$24.95 | 11/26 | 225 pp
978-1-968148-88-1
There’s No Way to Know
Mary Alice Hostetter
Mary Alice Hostetter complicates the downhome charms and easy myths of smalltown life with stories that attract and repel, embolden and frighten, tear down and build up.
“A joy . . . a tender and thought-provoking portrayal of life in the South.”
—Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints of You
$23.95 | 11/26 | 156 pp
978-1-968148-87-4
Aboard the Old Buoy
Andrew Rihn
Steve Costigan Jr., a boxer from Texas, sails from New Orleans to San Francisco in 1955 aboard the Old Buoy. Costigan’s many scrapes and setbacks fuel Andrew Rihn’s campy yet sincere pulp stories, inspired by the work of Robert E. Howard.
“Melvillean tales focused on the pugilist rather than the sailor.”
—Kyle Winkler, author of The Ship of Death
$23.95 | 11/26 | 118 pp
978-1-968148-86-7
Never Mind Your Good Reasons
BettyJoyce Nash
The characters in Never Mind Your Good Reasons face disruption and, finally, themselves in nine intimate, captivating tales. Loners who aren’t quite making it, BettyJoyce Nash’s people live on the outskirts of a town or city, a job, and their own lives.
“Edgy and sparkling jewels to be examined in the light.”
—Erika Raslin, author of Allegiance
$22.95 | 11/26 | 120 pp
978-1-968148-74-4
Summer & Other Stories
Tamara Skidmore
Six stories follow the life of Ruby, a Michigan girl living, struggling, and searching in San Francisco. Starkly real and exacting in its endurance and spirit, Summer & Other Stories is a soulful exploration of a woman’s dangerous proximity to ruin and rebirth.
“Compellingly intimate.”
—Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago
$24.95 | 11/26 | 225 pp
978-1-968148-85-0
Welcome to North Bank
Phillip Sterling
North Bank, a small, agriculturally dependent town in West Central Michigan, hums with mystery. Vibrant and dexterous, Phillip Sterling finds the heartache and humor of a people beset by disadvantage but never short on hope.
“Taut, suspenseful, emotionally powerful renderings of ordinary lives.”
—The Georgia Review
$24.95 | 11/26 | 170 pp
978-1-968148-84-3
Abandon
Storm Ainsely
“Ainsely is a writer who unflinchingly explores the fragile spaces between creativity and self-destruction, hope and nihilism, connection and isolation.”
—John Chavez, author of City of Slow Dissolve
“Lyrical and harsh, Abandon is rapid and bright with its own blood.”
—Jesse Ball, author of The Repeat Room
$24.95 | 10/26 | 224 pp
978-1-968148-67-6
MArvelous Freaks of Nature!
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
From oddballs and lonely hearts living on the fringes of suburbia to stunning abnormalities pulled out from Mother Nature’s bag of tricks, MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! is a delightfully sly study of the shadowy crannies of the human heart.
“Continually amazes, sometimes quietly and sometimes with the force of a bomb.”
—Mary Grimm, author of Transubstantiation
$24.95 | 10/26 | 216 pp
978-1-968148-57-7
Tradeoffs
David Galef
From the minor to the magnificent, Tradeoffs follows its many characters toward their various conclusions—sometimes logical, sometimes absurd, yet always true. Intricate in its construction and thrilling in its breadth, Tradeoffs pays off.
“Masterful . . . compelling and thought-provoking.”
—Francine Witte, author of Radio Water
$25.95 | 10/26 | 238 pp
978-1-968148-77-5
Bullies & Cowards
Kevin Grauke
What makes a bully? What makes a coward? Who determines what makes a person one or the other? How does one avoid being either? Bullies & Cowards reveals the darkness and courage buried in each of us.
“As brutal as it is beautiful. . . . Without question, Grauke is one of our finest short story writers today.”
—Jonathan Danielson, author of The Lowest Basin
$24.95 | 10/26 | 216 pp
978-1-968148-76-8
Secrets and Other Hobbies
Mary Hannah Terzino
Serious and darkly humorous, noble and morally ambiguous, achingly vulnerable and always memorable, Mary Hannah Terzino’s debut lays bare an indelible and realistic Midwest.
“Gutting and complex. A literary coup for all those who love the Midwest.”
—Katey Schultz, author of Still Come Home
$23.95 | 10/26 | 152 pp
978-1-968148-79-9
The Great Silence
Daniel Scott
The bracing, innovative stories in Daniel Scott’s The Great Silence expose and exalt human longing amidst the push and promise of American life.
“A beautiful, moving collection.”
—Karen E. Bender, author of The Words of Dr. L
$24.95 | 10/26 | 208 pp
978-1-968148-80-5
And Night Shall Come
David J. Rank
The stories in David J. Rank’s debut collection reveal what things wait in the shadows beyond human vision: creatures best left alone, monsters lurking within ourselves, and dark emotions ready to erupt from tormented souls.
“Full of wit and dark humor, reminiscent of Ray Bradbury.”
—Sarah Read, Bram Stoker Award Winner
$24.95 | 10/26 | 196 pp
978-1-968148-70-6
Tollund Man
Jeff Esterholm
With characters striving for something more than just survival, the stories in Tollund Man reveal the broken hearts and stalled dreams of a stalwart people starting to crack from weathering.
“This book whispers and explodes, sings then kicks down the door.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
$24.95 | 10/26 | 174 pp
978-1-968148-75-1
Rumors of Peace
Hope Coulter
Biting, canny, and tender, Rumors of Peace conjures a group of characters who, amid many kinds of upheaval, spin the magic of stories to make sense of their lives.
“Poignant, pensive, and nuanced.”
—Foreword Review
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$22.95 | 4/26 | 118 pp
978-1-968148-36-2
Hands
Pardeep Toor
What happens if hard work doesn’t pay off and dreams don’t come true? Hands follows Hans, a downtrodden and aimless immigrant pursuing the so-called American Dream by any means necessary.
“Brilliant . . . a beautiful work of art.”
—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award Finalist
$24.95 | 4/26 | 206 pp
978-1-968148-37-9
I Felt My Life With Both My Hands
Jessica Treadway
These stories affirm the significance of our most inner selves, and the possibility of grace in human connection.
“A writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.”
—The New York Times Book Review
$24.95 | 4/26 | 208 pp
978-1-968148-39-3
Your Place in This World
Jake La Botz
What does it mean to find your place in this world? Jake La Botz burrows his way deep into the challenges of revelation, showing how change can bless us and curse us, and ultimately save us.
“Engrossing and excellent.”
—Adventures in Americana
$24.95 | 4/26 | 225 pp
978-1-968148-42-3
All That It Seems
Jim Landwehr
Eclectic, relevant, and earnestly human at every turn, Jim Landwehr’s stories sparkle with magic and fantasy, hum with technology and history, and celebrate human triumph in troubling times.
“Brimming with life, humor and heartbreak.”
—Frank Bures, author of Pushing the River
$24.95 | 4/26 | 225 pp
978-1-968148-43-0
Lafferty, Looking for Love
Dennis McFadden
People like Terrance Lafferty because he’s harmless. All the trouble he gets into, all his predicaments, are usually self-inflicted, and happen only because he’s on that most elemental of quests: he’s looking for love. And, as you might guess, he’s looking in all the wrong places.
“Charming.”
—Foreword Reviews
$24.95 | 4/26 | 180 pp
978-1-968148-38-6
This Is How We Speak
Rebecca Reynolds
What do we owe one another? Rebecca Reynolds tells stories within stories of parents, children, turmoil, and forgiveness.
“Vibrant and alive and necessary.”
—Mary Miller, author of Always Happy Hour
$24.95 | 4/26 | 225 pp
978-1-968148-44-7
All Gone Now
Michael Caleb Tasker
Examines lives touched by absent parents, escaped convicts, and looming hurricanes in slowly changing worlds, peopled with beaten souls that refuse erosion.
“Brings to life the wounded and the lost, and the yearning within the human heart.”
—Michael Sela, author of The Restorer
$27.95 | 3/26 | 288 pp
978-1-968148-40-9
A Green Glow On the Horizon
Dawn Burns
Exposes the complicated, often contradictory yearnings and compulsions, griefs and grievous missteps of our fellow human beings.
“Tender, funny, and masterful”
—Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist
$24.95 | 3/26 | 174 pp
978-1-968148-21-8
Apple & Palm
Patricia Henley
The town of Whistle Pig, like the mountains that surround it, can appear unchanging, as immutable as geography. Apple & Palm is a provocative close-up examination of aging, memory, and desire from National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley.
“As immersive and rich as a novel.”
—The Rumpus
$24.95 | 3/26 | 220 pp
978-1-968148-35-5
Bodies in Bags
Jamey Gallagher
Jamey Gallagher’s stories, steeped in desperation and told in tough but tender voices, are about the effects of—and the compulsion to—violence. Bodies in Bags, with its flex and fever, is so visceral you can smell it.
“Steel-hinged and hard-won.”
—Benjamin Drevlow, author of Honky
$24.95 | 2/26 | 218 pp
978-1-968148-22-5
How We Do Things Here
Matt Cashion
Matt Cashion’s cast of slow-learners reveals how we try (and fail) and retry to forge meaningful connections in the troubled spaces we’re so desperate to share.
“Surprising, very funny, and brimming with compassion.”
—Lori Ostlund, author of Are You Happy?
$24.95 | 2/26 | 228 pp
978-1-968148-25-6
Yes, No, I Don’t Know
Kathryn Gahl
Stories that form a luminous patchwork of Midwestern strivers, lovers, and dreamers in thorny circumstances. Controlled, tender, and masterful, Gahl weaves despair and hope into a single thread of healing grace.
“Brimming with compassion.”
—Larry Watson, New York Times Bestselling Author
$23.95 | 2/26 | 156 pp
978-1-968148-24-9
Release of Information
Kali White VanBaale
Exploring marital roles, complex family legacies, abuse, and generational trauma, the interconnected characters and stories move through time and space, as VanBaale catches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of revelation.
“Striking and haunting.”
—Booklist
$24.95 | 2/26 | 208 pp
978-1-968148-27-0
The Divide
Evan Morgan Williams
Set in the Mountain West, place is not just a backdrop; it is a provocation, an invitation to hope, and a mirror to reflect either consolation or indifference, depending on the case.
“A collection of memorable character studies with a good sense of presence—and absence.”
—Kirkus Reviews
$24.95 | 2/26 | 178 pp
978-1-968148-34-8
The Price of Their Toys
John P. Loonam
John P. Loonam builds a mosaic of modern life, charged with the arrogance of youth, the despair of aging, and the prices we pay along the way.
“A vivid, powerful coming-of-age tale, a story of stories.”
—Frank Haberle, author of Downlanders
$24.95 | 2/26 | 162 pp
978-1-968148-23-2
Neon Steel
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Magical realist and neon-lit, McCauley faithfully follows a group of nerds and the magic that excites them, bringing to life a city and a state of being.
“These linked stories are valentines to Black culture, Blerds (Black nerds), and Pittsburgh. . . . A fun homage to anime.”
—Kirkus Reviews
$24.95 | 12/25 | 228 pp
978-1-968148-17-1
These Are My People
Steve Fox
Whirling and wondrous, these stories show Steve Fox at the peak of his powers.
“A reader’s dream, and a true gourmet meal of story, too.”
—Amber Sparks, author of Happy People Don’t Live Here
$24.95 | 12/25 | 212 pp
978-1-968148-13-3
We Should Be Somewhere By Now
Stephen Tuttle
With singular style and grace, Stephen Tuttle explores what it means to be a stranger in familiar places and among familiar people.
“Small illogical bursts of pleasure . . . nimble and steady.”
—elsewhere
$25.95 | 12/25 | 242 pp
978-1-968148-18-8
A Day Doesn’t Go By When I Don’t Have Regrets
J. Malcolm Garcia
Hard-boiled tales of characters living well below the radar of the people around them, but redemption might be right around the corner.
“Deft and moving.”
—Andria Williams, author of The Longest Night
$24.95 | 12/25 | 174 pp
978-1-968148-20-1
The Caged Man
Calvin Mills
Through his characters’ isolation, grief, and longing, Mills makes us see the fantastic in the mundane.
“Intricate . . . effortless storytelling.”
—T.C. Boyle, National Book Award Finalist
$24.95 | 11/25 | 172 pp
978-1-968148-12-6
Burner and Other Stories
Katrina Denza
Katrina Denza writes women in conflict. Wrestling with connections and disconnections, highs and lows, and the vagaries of modernity, Burner and Other Stories shows us how we live today.
“Seductive, smart, and funny.”
—Jill McCorkle, author of Old Crimes
$24.95 | 11/25 | 160 pp
978-1-968148-14-0
Trust Issues
K.P. Davis
A stunning beacon for hard-headed folk fighting to be heard when nobody listens.
“Davis is a master of moments.”
—Maurice Carlos Guffin, author of The American Daughters
$25.95 | 11/25 | 258 pp
978-1-968148-11-9
The Plan of Chicago
Barry Pearce
Barry Pearce’s award-winning debut of heartbreaking division, unexpected intersections, and dim but possible dreams.
“Pearce illuminates the soul of Chicago.”
—Booklist, starred review
$24.95 | 10/25 | 182 pp
978-1-968148-08-9
Western Terminus
Michael Keefe
In tales tinged with magical realism, Michael Keefe’s characters find themselves caught in the limbo between self-discovery and self-destruction.
“Explores moments of transition and revelation with profound wisdom, empathy, and precision.”
—Kimberly King Parsons, National book Award Finalist
$24.95 | 10/25 | 202 pp
978-1-968148-09-6
Guardians & Saints
Diane Josefowicz
We’re born unfinished, in need of everything—love, food, attention, care. The linked stories in Guardians & Saints explore the ways in which modern orphans fail to thrive.
“Gorgeously rhythmic and constantly surprising.”
—Beth Bosworth, author of The Source of Life and Other Stories
$24.95 | 10/25 | 194 pp
978-1-968148-04-1
Like Human
Janet Goldberg
Janet Goldberg’s mesmeric stories pit people against their loved ones, their landscapes, the fluid boundaries of safety, and ultimately, the vagaries of love.
“An intimate, exquisitely observed collection . . . mesmerizing.”
—Stephanie Cowell, American Book Award Winner
$24.95 | 10/25 | 208 pp
978-1-968148-10-2
Adult Children
Laurence Klavan
Edgar Award-winning Laurence Klavan weaves together threads of humanity and strangeness to dizzying and heartfelt effects.
“Full of unexpected joys.”
—John Guare, Tony Award Winner
$24.95 | 5/25 | 180 pp
978-1-960329-83-7
Never Stop Exiting
Michael Hopkins
Michael Hopkins’ dazzling mix of stories helps us see the world as if through beginner’s eyes, a prism where the refractions usher in light and life.
“Smart, mercurial, exploratory stories.”
—Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs
$24.95 | 5/25 | 196 pp
978-1-960329-84-4
The Hopefuls
Elizabeth Oness
Rapturous and compelling stories about ordinary people and their joys, slights, families, and failures from award-winning writer Elizabeth Oness.
“In Oness’s hands, even the smallest, most ordinary lives loom large.”
—David Jauss, author of Glossolalia
$24.95 | 5/25 | 212 pp
978-1-960329-81-3
Broken Heart Syndrome
Anne Colwell
Colwell’s characters live lives haunted by ghosts, and yet they all eventually choose to suture up their despair for a chance at restoration.
“Nothing less than thrilling.”
—Liam Callanan, author of When in Rome
$24.95 | 5/25 | 168 pp
978-1-960329-82-0
The Mexican Messiah
Jay Kauffmann
Stories of faith, chance, and haunting grace from a striking new voice, The Mexican Messiah glows with life and darkens with shadow.
“A work of wonderment.”
—Vanessa Blakeslee, author of Perfect Confition
$24.95 | 3/25 | 182 pp
978-1-960329-65-3
Close to a Flame
Colleen Alles
Deep connections to other people help restore what’s broken in Colleen Alles’ debut story collection.
“A whisper, not a shout.”
—Great Lakes Review
$24.95 | 3/25 | 228 pp
978-1-960329-71-4
American Animism
Jamey Gallagher
Jamey Gallagher illuminates something necessary, something true, in his dazzling debut.
“Compelling . . . tense explorations of fear, grief, and loneliness.”
—Literary Hub
$24.95 | 2/25 | 230 pp
978-1-960329-64-6
The Continental Divide
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson’s blistering debut explores the undertow of violence and sin in Northern Indiana.
“Inventive, assured writing . . . pages that breathe with life.”
—New York Times Book Review
$24.95 | 2/25 | 208 pp
978-1-960329-63-9
Keeping What’s Best Left Kept Secret
David Ricchiute
Stirring and elegant, Keeping What’s Best Left Kept Secret probes the force of untold secrets on the daily business of making do.
“Rich, enigmatic short stories.”
—Barbara Shoup, author of A Commotion in Your Heart
$24.95 | 2/25 | 198 pp
978-1-960329-74-5
Soaked
Toby LeBlanc
One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked. Laughing in the face of oblivion and enduring when everything else is gone is what the people of Louisiana, Toby LeBlanc’s people, do best.
“Deeply intimate and significantly important.”
—Southern Review of Books
$22.95 | 2/25 | 146 pp
978-1-960329-73-8
Shocker in Gloomtown
Dan Libman
Bursts of humor, pathos, and absurdity people the tales in Shocker in Gloomtown, as Dan Libman continues his exploration into the strange fissures of Midwestern surrealism.
“Quick, funny, touching, serious, sometimes surreal, with a distinctive colloquial voice.”
—Stephen Dixon, National Book Award nominee
$24.95 | 2/25 | 174 pp
978-1-960329-52-3
The Correct Response
Manfred Gabriel
In The Correct Response, Manfred Gabriel artfully blends the fantastic and the real, culminating in surreal but heartfelt tales of longing, love, and loss against the backdrop of modern America.
“A collection with characters so real they might just grab you by the shirt collar.”
—Jim Guhl, author of South of Luck
$24.95 | 2/25 | 198 pp
978-1-960329-70-7
The Path of Totality
Marie Zhuikov
United by the power of appearances to deceive and captivate, Marie Zhuikov’s tales glisten with the magic and menace of everyday lives.
“Love, in its numerous forms romantic, parental, devotional, inspirational, and desperate has a lingering presence in Zhuikov’s collection of tales.”
—Booklist
$24.95 | 1/25 | 182 pp
978-1-960329-62-2
The Three Devils
William Luvaas
With grit and grace, chaos and compassion, angst and absolution, The Three Devils makes us reckon with the maelstrom, all while wrestling with the longings of the busted and beautiful human heart.
“As human as it is haunting . . . mesmerizing and deeply unsettling.”
—Necessary Fiction
$24.95 | 11/24 | 240 pp
978-1-960329-39-4
Greyhound Cowboy
Ken Post
In his perceptive debut, Ken Post peeks into frailty, confrontation, and friendship, illuminating the fascinating and fragile details that make up our lives.
“This little book is big in many ways .”
—Kim Heacox, author of Jimmy Bluefeather
$24.95 | 11/24 | 244 pp
978-1-960329-48-6
Welcome Back to the World
Rob Davidson
In stories of finding life anew in ever-changing circumstances, Rob Davidson’s soaring prose reminds us that hope is visible in the darkest of times.
“An impressive set of stories from a skilled observer of the human animal.”
—Kirkus Reviews
$26.95 | 11/24 | 244 pp
978-1-960329-48-6
Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse
Heidi Bell
Heidi Bell approaches reality sideways in her sensational debut collection.
$24.95 | 10/24 | 164 pp
978-1-960329-42-4
The Waterman
Gary Schanbacher
With powerful and salty prose, Gary Schanbacher shows how the decisions we make reverberate through the decades of our lives and affect not only our destiny but also the destinies of those around us.
“Imaginative and evocative . . . an engrossing reading experience.”
—Rocky Mountain Reader
$24.95 | 10/24 | 184 pp
978-1-960329-44-8
What We Might Become
Sara Reish Desmond
Deft and moving, What We Might Become shares the uncertainty about how we ought to live in transitional moments and, perhaps more desperately, forever.
“Desmond’s stories are so real, so painfully true.”
—Necessary Fiction
$24.95 | 10/24 | 176 pp
978-1-960329-45-5
The Silver State Stories
Michael Darcher
Amidst the casinos of Reno, Nevada, the “Biggest Little City in the World,” Michael Darcher shows us more than high rollers and underbellies. Steady, assured, and compassionate, he gives us real people.
“Exquisitely funny, wry, and tender. This book is hard to put down.”
—Christopher Coake, author of You Would Have Told Me Not To
$24.95 | 10/24 | 208 pp
978-1-960329-46-2
Close Call
Kim Suhr
Carefully crafted, surprising, and humane, the stories in Kim Suhr’s Close Call unveil emotion in tight spaces, hearts in turmoil, and the searching soul of the Midwest.
“Close Call gets us close—we slip in and out of various bodies just in time to start squirming.”
—Maggie Ginsberg, author of Still True
$24.95 | 8/24 | 252 pp
978-1-960329-41-7
An Instinct for Movement
Michael Mattes
From a blighted Mid-Atlantic city to pre-millennium San Francisco to the hills of California pot country to a woodland outpost in the Pacific Northwest, Mattes strives for clarion, momentary truths born of human comedy.
“One of the best collections of riveting, character driven short stories I’ve ever read.”
—Robert Dugoni, New York Times Best-Selling Author
$24.95 | 4/24 | 200 pp
978-1-960329-20-2
The Machine We Trust
Tim Conrad
With exacting prose that searches and clutches, Tim Conrad exposes the cracks where hearts are broken, and redemption is just one chance away.
“Gloriously imaginative and utterly compelling.”
—Thisbe Nissen, author of How Other People Make Love
$24.95 | 4/24 | 190 pp
978-1-960329-21-9
Gridlock
Brett Biebel
There’s a 200-mile long traffic jam on I-94, and people are going to be stuck there for days. Maybe weeks. Told in striking, kinetic flashes, Brett Biebel’s Gridlock explores the event.
“Dazzling.”
—Chris Bachelder, National Book Award Finalist
$26.95 | 4/24 | 242 pp
978-1-960329-34-9
Salt Folk
Ryan Habermeyer
Melancholically absurd, the salty women and foolhardy men in Ryan Habermeyer’s reimagined American West confront catastrophes large and small, magical and mundane, with grotesque optimism and quixotic tenderness.
“Habermeyer is an extraordinary stylist.”
—Trudy Lewis, author of The Empire Rolls
$24.95 | 4/24 | 192 pp
978-1-960329-19-6
The Commission of Inquiry
Patrick Nevins
Eclectic in its breadth and startling in its power, The Commission of Inquiry investigates life, death, and other matters, as Patrick Nevins delivers twenty stories built to surprise, challenge, and even change us.
“Nevins moors his impressive range of subjects with profound insights into who we are.”
—Jennifer Wortman, author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.
$24.95 | 11/23 | 184 pp
978-1-960329-13-4
Reach Her in This Light
Jane Curtis
Reach Her in This Light unfolds as a fiery and empathetic mosaic of lives lived, as four women each search for their own kind of freedom.
“Despite upheaval, these women are centered and true, never bitter or jaded.”
—Indianapolis Star
$24.95 | 11/23 | 178 pp
978-1-960329-09-7
Maximum Speed
Kevin Clouther
Maximum Speed moves across time and point of view to dramatize youth’s aftershocks.
“Wonderfully evocative.”
—Booklist
$24.95 | 11/23 | 208 pp
978-1-960329-10-3
The Spirit in My Shoes
John Michael Cummings
The Spirit in My Shoes tells the truth about loneliness, relationships, and the common struggles we all face with prose both precise and vibrant.
“Funny, touching, and at times surprising.”
—Kali White, author of The Monsters We Make
$24.95 | 10/23 | 212 pp
978-1-960329-08-0
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories
Jeff Esterholm
Honored Fiction
On the Third Coast, the shores of Lake Superior, Jeff Esterholm explores what happens when people slip their moorings and are set adrift.
24.95 | 10/23 | 234 pp
978-1-960329-07-3
What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better
Jody Hobbs Hesler
Jody Hobbs Hesler’s debut collection shines with its portraits of longing, disconnection, and the ache for renewal and redemption that comes from our own frailties.
“Thoughtfully crafted and skillfully realized.”
—Necessary Fiction
$24.95 | 10/23 | 184 pp
978-1-960329-12-7
Fugitive Daydreams
Leah McCormack
With power and stylistic inventiveness, Leah McCormack embraces the absurd while refusing to look away from painful truths.
“Furious, melancholy, and tender.”
—Leah Stewart, author of What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw
$24.95 | 4/23 | 204 pp
979-8-986966-35-9
Hoist House
Jenny Robertson
With power and compassion, Jenny Robertson weaves tales that explore the ephemeral nature of the American Dream.
“Stories driven by muscled, energetic prose.”
—North American Review
$24.95 | 2/23 | 192 pp
979-8-986966-33-5
Finding the Bones
Nikki Kallio
Nikki Kallio establishes herself as a fresh, innovative, and compassionate voice in speculative fiction and magical realism.
$24.95 | 2/23 | 200 pp
979-8-986966-36-6
Where Are Your People From?
James B. De Monte
Where Are Your People From? explores the fellowship and hardship of Midwest Italian-Americans in the post-industrial Appalachian region of Ohio .
“Brimming with vivid, immediate life.”
—Varley O’Connor, author of The Master’s Muse
$21.95 | 2/23 | 146 pp
979-8-986966-34-2
Self-Defense
Corey Mertes
Crackling with lyricism, hard-bitten truths, and soaring prose, the twelve stories in Corey Mertes’s Self-Defense follow their down-on-their-luck protagonists through life’s narrow passes to its snow-covered valleys below.
“As addictive as the throw of the dice or turn of the cards.”
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Sometimes Creek
Steve Fox
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The Clayfields
Elise Gregory
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Kind of Blue
Christopher Chambers
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Dawn Burns
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Township
Jamie Lyn Smith
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Responsible Adults
Patricia Ann McNair
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Great Escapes from Detroit
Joseph O’Malley
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Nothing to Lose
Kim Suhr
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The Appointed Hour
Susanne Davis
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Clay Matthews
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Bruce Cohen
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Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone: BAseball Poems of New York
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Time Traveling
Kate Deimling
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Little Joy
Matthew Murrey
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When I Was Baptized in Missouri Dirt
Chad Parmenter
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The Worse For Wear
Jenna Goldsmith
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The Vinegar in Our Hearts
Jesse DeLong
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Mouth
Amorak Huey
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Pandora’s Prairie
Katherine Hoerth
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Temporary Shelters
Grant Clauser
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The Weather of Our Names
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An Introduction to Error
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And the Heart Will Not Quicken
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Wildfire
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Lost Cathedral
Hannah Rodabaugh
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Even the Sky
Kevin Thomason
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The Underdream
Aiyana Masla
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Exile Is Home
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How We Argue
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Torrential
Jayne Marek
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Another Native Tongue
Susan Riley Clarke
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Dining on Salt
Wayne Lee
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Flu Season
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No Trouble Staying Awake
Teresa J. Scollon
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Catch & Release
Lauren Crawford
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Steelhead
Lauren K. Carlson
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The Coronation of the Ghost
Benjamin Gantcher
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Red Camaro
Dwaine Rieves
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The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands
Susannah Sheffer
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978-1-960329-79-0
Love as an Invasive Species
Ellen Kombiyil
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They Were Horrible Cooks
Allison Whittenberg
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The New Life
Wendy Wisner
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Cuttings
Hannah Dow
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Forgive the Animal
Sarah Pape
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Where Babies Come From
Ori Fienberg
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The Blue Divide
Linda Nemec Foster
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Restoring Prairie
Margaret Rozga
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The Velvet Book
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A Bright Wound
Sarah A. Etlinger
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Table with Burning Candle
Julia Paul
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Poetic People Power
Tara Bracco (ed.)
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Listening to Mars
Sally Ashton
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Do Not Feed the Animal
Hikari Miya
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Dear Lo
Brady Bove
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The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child
Michelle Meyer
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Happy Everything
Caitlin Cowan
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Glitter City
Bonnie Jill Emanuel
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Sadness of the Apex Predator
Dion O’Reilly
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The Watching Sky
Judy Brackett Crowe
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Lake, River, Mountain
Mark B. Hamilton
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978-1-960329-17-2
Let It Be Told in a Single Breath
Russell Thorburn
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Talking Diamonds
Linda Nemec Foster
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The Green Vault Heist
David Salner
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We Are Reckless
Christy Prahl
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Everything Waits
Jonathan Graham
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There is a Corner of Someplace Else
Caleb Michael Jones
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Silent Letter
Gail Hanlon
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979-8-986966-38-0
Always a Body
Molly Fuller
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Fulgurite
Catherine Kyle
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Bowed As If Laden With Snow
Megan Wildhood
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979-8-986966-32-8
The Body Is Burden and Delight
Sharon White
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979-8-986966-31-1
Bone Country
Linda Nemec Foster
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978-1-960329-01-1
New Wilderness
Jenifer DeBellis
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Monarch
Heather Bourbeau
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979-8-986966-30-4
Not Just the Fire
R.B. Simon
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$20.95 | 9/22 | 134 pp
978-1-737739-09-8
Mourning
Dokubo Goodhead
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$18.95 | 9/22 | 108 pp
979-8-986144-75-7
The Walk to Cefalù
Lynne Viti
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$21.95 | 9/22 | 172 pp
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The Found Object Imagines a Life
Mary Catherine Harper
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979-8-986144-70-2
Naming the Ghost
Emily Hockaday
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$18.95 | 9/22 | 82 pp
979-8-986144-70-2
Holding My Selves Together
Margaret Rozga
“Like a lakeside summer at the peak of day.
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978-1737739-06-7
Messengers of the Gods
Kathryn Gahl
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$18.95 | 3/22 | 118 pp
978-1737739-03-6
After the 8-Ball
Colleen Alles
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978-1733308-69-4
Broken On the Wheel
Barbara Costas-Biggs
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978-1733308-68-7
Sparks and Disperses
Cathleen Cohen
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978-1737739-00-5
Careful Cartography
Devon Bohm
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978-1733308-62-5
Lost and Found Departments
Heather Dubrow
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978-0966848-88-5
The Almost-Children
Cassondra Windwalker
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978-0966848-83-0
Meditations of a Beast
Kristine Ong-Muslim
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spring/FALL 2026
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978-1-968148-72-0
Mostly Woodcock
Joe Knight
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EARLY SEASON
RON DAVIS
For an industrious group of thirteen-year-old boys, summer could mean afternoons spent on the banks of the Wisconsin River in a dubious quest for the elusive glamour fish, the carp. A short stretch of county road draws visitors from all over the world. A morning hunt reveals stories in the snow. A trout fishing trip reveals how father–son roles have changed. Filled with humor, heart, and home, the essays in Early Season represent the best of Wisconsin writer Ron Davis.
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$25.95 | August 2026 | 236 pp
978-1-968148-52-2
Departures
Marcia Williams
At age fifty-six Marcia Williams must either lead the life her mother wanted or escape the dysfunction and light out on her own. What Williams discovers in the process, along with her own self-worth, helps her recognize her mother’s passionate desire for legitimacy in a swirl of generational trauma. Departures charts the pain of parental decisions felt across decades, and how Williams chose life out of turmoil.
“A leave-taking and a reckoning—a journey toward hope, healing, and the companionship of a heart as true as her own.”
—Kim Barnes, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
$25.95 | August 2026 | 252 pp
978-1-968148-51-5
Water Finds a Way
Dave Hardin
David Hardin’s new memoir is a reflection on the enduring bond between David Hardin and his father, a poor Southern migrant, to Detroit, Michigan, in the middle of the last century. A bond forged in generational suffering, shame, and fear, but annealed in love’s timeless persistence. It is the story of two men who long for home, for a sense of belonging, for something lost in the chasm that yawns between them.
“A sanguine, bittersweet tale that delves deeply into our inherent need to belong.”
—John Smolens, author of Possession(s)
$27.95 | March 2026 | 270 pp
978-1-968148-48-5
Powder Plant
Carolyn Dallmann
For thirty years, Carolyn Dallmann held down various positions at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, in Sauk County, Wisconsin. A major manufacturer of gunpowder and other nitrocellulose-based propellants, Badger played a vital and controversial role in the life of central Wisconsin throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Follow Dallmann as she recounts her time there.
“Gritty, fascinating, and completely absorbing.”
—Linda Saether, author of What We Can’t Forget
$27.95 | March 2026 | 270 pp
978-1-968148-26-3
Hound Dog
M.L. Liebler
From award-winning Detroit poet M.L. Liebler comes a heartfelt, thumping, and wide-ranging memoir of a life lived with music, muses, and the magic of the written word. From Elvis and Bob Dylan, to Robbie Robertson, Hüsker Dü, and Eminem, Liebler treads his well-traveled road using musical signposts that have defined a generation of artists. Hound Dog is nothing less than the album of M.L. Liebler’s life.
“M.L. Liebler is the poet laureate of America’s working class.”
—Michael Moore, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker
Series List
$21.95 | 10/25 | 132 pp
978-1-968148-05-8
In the Room at the Top of the World
Ben McCormick
McCormick’s award-winning sprint of a lyrical memoir centered on the Milwaukee Bucks’ NBA title run is about the alchemy of emotions and fandom, and returning to a Midwest that makes us, breaks us, and makes us all over again.
$24.95 | 8/25 | 190 pp
978-1-960329-94-3
Water Spell
Catherine Broadwall
Catherine Broadwall acts as both doctor and patient throughout her debut memoir, suturing her own wounds and showing that a reader’s delight in any narrative can spark profound revelation and growth.
“A balm, a salve.”
—Katie Fuller, author of Careful
$24.95 | 8/25 | 180 pp
978-1-960329-91-2
An Ignorance of Trees
Jim Daniels
A 2025 Michigan Notable Book
In his debut collection of nonfiction, Jim Daniels writes about trees, backyard swing sets, above-ground swimming pools, pets, and hoarding, carrying his beloved Detroit with him wherever he goes.
$23.95 | 5/25 | 150 pp
978-1-960329-90-5
Our Bodies Are Mostly Water
Katherine Riegel
Katherine Riegel finds a way through her grief in her compassionate and lyrical memoir of her sister’s life and death.
“Riegel’s intelligent, thoughtful voice infuses the memoir with warmth, compassion, and grace.”
—Anne Panning, author of Dragonfly Notes: A Memoir
$24.95 | 5/25 | 222 pp
978-1-960329-92-9
You Shoulda Been Here Last Week
Ted J. Rulseh
Ted Rulseh guides you through a lifetime of angling in You Shoulda Been Here Last Week: the joys, thrills, and failures; the moments of wonder; treasured times with friends and family.
“Rulseh understands the Northwoods mindset.”
—Dan Small, host of Outdoor Wisconsin
$23.95 | 5/25 | 156 pp
978-1-960329-77-6
Table Talk & Second Thoughts
Michael Martone
With wit and humor, award-winning writer Michael Martone writes his life as one of brief bites, effervescent episodes, and meaningful meals illuminated by the luminaries on the other side of the table.
Featuring reminiscences of Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, Raymond Carver, and many more!
$29.95 | 3/25 | 280 pp
978-1-960329-92-9
The Past Ten
Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, & Bailey Gaylin Moore (eds.)
The Past Ten features a wide range of writers all answering the same question, where were you on this day ten years ago?
“A reflective mosaic.”
—Jaquira Díaz
$32.95 | 10/24 | 322 pp
978-1-960329-15-8
Wildlifer
Neil F. Payne
Payne guides readers through an analysis of wildlife management as not only a profession, but also a way of life, and how it must be preserved.
“Marvelous writing-and exciting coverage over many years.”
—Estella Leopold
$24.95 | 9/24 | 184 pp
978-1-960329-49-3
This Season, The Next
Casey Knott
Part DIY, part memoir, part musing, This Season, The Next finds Casey Knott starting over after a divorce, meeting the love of her life, blending a family, and finding and remodeling an urban farm.
“A luminous, lyrical memoir.”
—Thomas Maltman, author of The Land and Little Wolves
$24.95 | 9/24 | 230 pp
978-1-960329-50-9
Points of Tangency
Scott Russell Morris
Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of meeting and then marrying his now wife. His story, told with grace, compassion, and dexterity, forges the framework of a life lived.
“Big hearted and quietly humorous.”
—Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie
$27.95 | 8/24 | 264 pp
978-1-960329-51-6
Lessons in Geography
Phillip Sterling
Lessons in Geography chronicles how Phillip Sterling’s formative years in Northwest Lower Michigan not only inspired him to be a writer but also profoundly influenced his creative and critical perspectives.
“Alive with memory.”
—M. L. Liebler, author of I Want to Be Once
$24.95 | 5/24 | 230 pp
978-1-960329-40-0
We Come from Good Stock
Kay Oakes Oring
The Oakes clan represents the peril and promise of staking a claim, starting a family, and watching the things you build become eternal.
“Inspires us to explore the stories found in our own family trees.”
—Joelle Frazer, The Territory of Men
$32.95 | 1/24 | 304 pp
978-1-960329-25-7
The Arc of the Escarpment
Robert Root
With great detail and a sincere dedication to place, Robert Root encourages us to pay attention to the land beneath our feet and value its preservation.
“A stunning breadth of history.”
—Christine Stewart-Nuñez, author of Chrysopoeia
$28.95 | 1/24 | 288 pp
978-1-960329-33-2
Squatter
Yolanda DeLoach
Between heartache and the realization that a relationship was never as it seemed, Yolanda DeLoach pushes herself toward Wisconsin’s historic Ice Age Trail, a place of friendship and, ultimately, forgiveness.
$22.95 | 12/23 | 148 pp
978-1-960329-24-0
Soul of the Outdoors
Dave Greschner
With humor and heart, Soul of the Outdoors treks along the trails of one’s outdoor adventures and, ultimately, the trails of our lives.
“Part field guide, part almanac.”
—Patti See, author of Here on Lake Hallie
$28.95 | 9/23 | 272 pp
978-1-960329-14-1
From the Heart: The Story of Matrix
John Harmon
From the Heart brings you into the inner workings of a highly influential music group, the jazz fusion ensemble Matrix, as well as closer to the man who made it all happen.
“No John Harmon, no Matrix. Hail to the Chief.”
—Kurt Dietrich, author of Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland
$24.95 | 8/23 | 228 pp
978-1-960329-99-8
The Long Fields
Anne-Marie Oomen
Anne-Marie Oomen’s sixth essay collection celebrates rural life as she experienced it growing up on a farm and then into an adulthood marked by both wandering and homing.
$24.95 | 8/23 | 272 pp
978-1-960329-04-2
Kick Out the Bottom
Erik Mortenson & Christopher Kramer
Amidst the ruins of Detroit, two seekers question all that they thought they knew as they struggle to achieve spiritual awakening in this collaborative memoir.
“A heady mixture of punkish aesthetics and neo-hip mysticism.”
—Aldon Lynn Nielsen
$29.95 | 2/23 | 296 pp
979-8986144-78-8
Wrong Tree
Jeff Wilson
Jeff Wilson’s adventures (or misadventures) in wildlife biology, are incredibly informative, entertaining, and occasionally hilarious.
“A beacon for the next generation to preserve its ties to the land.”
—Rocky Barker, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
$24.95 | 11/22 | 240 pp
979-8986144-74-0
At the Lake
Jim Landwehr
With fifteen rich personal histories, Jim Landwehr delivers a memoir filled with humor, warmth, and reverence for life up North.
“A heartwarming collage of personal yet universal memories.”
—Patricia Skalka, author of the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries
$19.95 | 4/22 | 94 pp
978-1-737739-08-1
Body Talk
Takwa Gordon
Takwa Gordon’s Body Talk explores being bipolar, Black, a refugee, a woman, a Muslim, and a child sexual abuse survivor in America.
“Artistic and poignant.”
—Aitch Alexander, author of My Body Is a Junkyard
$32.95 | 4/22 | 378 pp
978-1-737739-02-9
North Freedom
Carolyn Dallmann
Carolyn Dallmann takes readers on a nostalgic journey through family, farming, and growing up.
“Dallmann captures the innocence of a little girl growing up on a farm in a small rural Wisconsin community.”
—Keri Olson, author of Find Your Heart, Follow Your Heart
$21.95 | 4/22 | 174 pp
978-1-737739-07-4
The In-Between State
Martha Lundin
Martha Lundin’s essays are compassionate analyses of bodies: queer bodies, bodies of water, bodies that are hated, and bodies that deserve love.
“A thrilling new voice in American literature.”
—May-lee Chai, American Book Award winner
$16.95 | 3/21 | 130 pp
978-1-737739-65-6
Ohio Apertures
Robert Miltner
From early childhood onward, Miltner offers a template for understanding the impact of place, region, family, literacy, and cultural influence on the shaping of a Midwest identity.
“Storytelling at its lyric best.”
—Barbara Sabol, author of Solitary Spin
$32.95 | May 2026 | 276 pp
978-1-968148-53-9
The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids
Charles E. Belknap | edited by Colleen Alles
Originally published in 1922, Captain Charles E. Belknap’s The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids is a writer’s love letter to his adored city. Through 101 anecdotal columns, Belknap captured snapshots of life in 1850s Grand Rapids, Michigan, and beyond.
“Belknap’s stories show the humans that make up our history, as individual people with all of their quirks, their hearts, and their faults.”
—Julie Tabberer, Director of the Grand Rapids History Center
$24.95 | May 2026 | 132 pp
978-1-968148-71-3
From Madison to Mobile: The Diary of Corporal Samuel Burdick, Jr.
edited by Daniel Scharfenberg
From Madison to Mobile is a transcribed historical diary by Samuel Burdick, Jr. (1834–1914) who served in Company D of the 23rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War from August 1862 until July 1865. Join Samuel from his enlistment in Albion, Wisconsin as a civilian carpenter and read about his transformation into a soldier in the Union Army.
$24.95 | May 2026 | 156 pp
978-1-968148-54-6
Under the Pines
Ada J. Moore | edited by M. Wade Mahon & Lillian S. Mahon
Ada J. Moore (1832–1877) was the pen name of Ellen Phillips, a resident of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and a widely published poet. She is considered Stevens Point’s unofficial poet laureate. Under the Pines (1875) was her only collection.
“When Moore writes of love and of little ones passed away we know that her words come from the depths of a mother’s heart. It is genuine joy or real anguish that moves her.”
—Wisconsin State Journal
$12.95 | Apr. 2019 | 272 pp
978-0-984673-96-4
the wisconsin idea
charles mccarthy | edited by ross k. tangedal & jeff snowbarger
Charles McCarthy’s chronicle of progressive state craft in practice charges those in government to invest in “hope, health, happiness, and justice,” in order to build up, rather than exploit, the resources (both human and natural) of the country. This new edition, with informative annotations for contemporary readers, is a must read for scholars and students of progressivism at the turn of the nineteenth century, as well as a must own for those who believe in the power and responsibility of the Wisconsin Idea.