By Donna Wilhelm An inspiring personal memoir of self-discovery from leading philanthropist and arts advocate Donna Wilhelm. Publication Date: November 12, 2019 Hardback: 9781941920916 eBook: 9781941920923 Description An evocative, immersive memoir that charts the personal evolution of an American philanthropic thought leader and arts advocate. A Life of My Own follows the author’s journey from…
By Eduardo Rabasa Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney This debut from a Mexico-recognized author examines humanity s dark side in a fatalistic satire of consumer society and the cult of the individual. Publication Date: November 29, 2016 Paperback: 9781941920381 eBook: 9781941920398Â Description Villa Miserias is a suburb of a suburb where everyone knows…
By Tedi López MillsTranslated from the Spanish by Wendy Burk The poems in Against the Current expose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. Publication Date: May…
By Roland RugeroTranslated from the French by Christopher Schaefer Young Burundian novelist Roland Rugero s second novel Baho!, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi s beautiful green hillsides. Publication Date: April 12, 2016 Paperback: 9781939419620 Description When Nyamuragi,…
Edited by Sarah CleaveFeaturing writings from Anoud, Wajdi al-Ahdal, Cristina Ali Farah, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Rania Mamoun, Fereshteh Molavi, and Zaher Omareen Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Basma Ghalayini, Perween Richards, Sawad Hussain, William M. Hutchins, and Hope Campbell Gustafson An emotional, timely collection of specially-commissioned writings from nations included in Trump s ban: Iran,…
By Rita Bullwinkel Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they ve been given and what their bodies require to be sustained. Publication Date:Â November 15, 2016 Paperback: 9780998518435eBook: 9780998518442 Description Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who…
By Kim YideumTranslated by Jiyoon Lee A woman in 1980s Korea struggles to understand her identity and live an authentic life in the face of injustice. Publication Date: June 11, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920770ebook: 9781941920787 Description Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980’s, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan’s violent…
By Alisa GanievaTranslated from the Russian by Dr. Carol Apollonio Runner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness. Publication Date: March 27, 2018 Paperback: 9781941920596Ebook: 9781941920602 Description From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva,…
By Magnús SigurðssonTranslated from the Icelandic by Meg Matich Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with perfect tone by award-winning translator Meg Matich, Sigurðsson creates tiny but arresting artifacts. Publication Date: January 10, 2017 Paperback: 9781944700096 Description 2015 PEN Heim Translation Fund Winner Magnús Sigurðsson’s spare poems pay rare…
By Spomenka Å timecTranslated from the Esperanto by Sebastian Schulman A unique, emotional account of a Croatian Esperanto activist trying to make sense of the collapse of language and landscape in former Yugoslavia. Publication Date: August 15, 2017 Paperback: 9781944700133 Description Croatian War Nocturnal is a fictionalized memoir of the wars in former Yugoslavia in the early…
By Mike Soto One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum s Central Track Writers Project. Publication Date: August 30, 2019 Description The spectacular fashion of the cloud-cover, & at times the profound lack of it, the way the horizon never lacks the sky. Dusk scrawling itself across the flat horizon for…
By Abdulla PashewTranslated from the Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse The sharp, lyrical verse— personal and political— of a poet that paints a literary window into his contested homeland, Kurdistan. Publication Date: December 3, 2019 Paperback: 9781944700805 Description With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50…
By RocÃo CerónTranslated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong Diorama is both a book of poems and a performance action by the poet RocÃo Cerón, who guides the reader on a hallucinatory, spiraling journey through image, language, Mexican history, and soundscapes. Publication Date: June 15, 2014 Paperback: 9781939419118 Description Diorama is both a book of…