Creative Writing Publications
- "The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the world, what's right and what's wrong. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality,
- "The adventurous and immersive latest from Douglas, continues the author鈥檚 fusion of poetry and prose with a nonlinear tale combining an escape from slavery in 18th-century Jamaica and immigrant life in 2010s America鈥 鈥楾ime and
- "In her frankly feminist ninth collection, Kocher (godhouse) dissects the dangers beneath the male gaze, the specter of which shadows women everywhere...These whip-smart and evocative poems derive meaning from both the darkness
- "DeShell is a daring, intelligent, hard-eyed, and tenderhearted writer, all of which is abundantly evident in his wonderful new novel. Jeffrey DeShell has managed to make the form of the crime novel erudite, challenging, and
- 鈥淓lisabeth Sheffield鈥檚 Ire Land is an exquisite construction鈥攁s sly as Nabokov, as tender as Beckett, deeply intelligent and run through with heart and dark hilarity and great waves of rage and beauty. 听It possesses an
- "'For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue,' recounts Rajiv Mohabir鈥檚 speaker in 鈥淏oy with Baleen for Teeth.鈥 As formally visionary and acoustically attuned as ever, Mohabir
- "A riveting story of heartbreak, death, and revenge, this remarkable work of American fiction, a thought-provoking tale filled with existential terror, unease, and a high body count, transforms, in Jones鈥 deft hands, from the
- 鈥淎n exquisite mosaic of the cruel and haunting complexities of family, race, property, and political power in the American West. Carefully researched, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts is a brave and moving book.鈥- AVERY F. GORDON, AUTHOR OF
- Masses and Motets听is a tale composed of four basic interwoven threads, corresponding to the four-part choral writing of Pierre de la Rue鈥檚 service music. The first thread comes from the diaries of a recently murdered priest, Father Andrea Vidal
- Noah Eli Gordon's latest poetry collection, Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? (Solid Objects) was included in The New York Times "New & Noteworthy" list on April 3.