LITERARY COLLECTIONS

Transanything engages and upends and a long-standing tradition of American literature—writing about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West—though a lens of queer liberation.

Through the experiences of grassroots practitioners working across a range of mediums and disciplines, this book offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicing civic media.
 

Grounded in California’s Central Valley, Muñoz’s breakthrough collection explores the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings.

In the wake of her poet father’s sudden passing, Monica Macansantos returns to the Philippines to heal, but this homecoming proves fraught with questions about belonging, rootedness, and her own coming-of-age as a young writer.

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country’s easternmost regions.

Where Hollywood Notebook takes place during waking hours—what we now call IRL—Bruja takes places during sleep.

Hollywood Notebook—the daytime companion to its sister memoir, Bruja—documents Wendy C. Ortiz’s transformational wanderings around early-aughts Los Angeles and the extraordinary explorations of a roaming mind in the bright hours of day.

Christina Rivera braids lyrical prose with research into endangered marine life. She explores the kinship of bodies of water and beings, ranging from her own experiences of motherhood to mantas, turtles, and whales.

Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.

In this profoundly felt and humorous collection, Michelle Mirsky follows the first year in the wake of the loss of her three-year-old son, tackling extreme loss as well as divorce, friendship, dating, sex, and comedy.