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A mesmerizing & perspective-altering book. Wong’s hypnotic prose challenges us to look differently at ocean life & our relationship with the many quieter species we often take for granted. A love letter to the ocean & an absolute marvel of a book.
–Tom Lathan 🙏
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Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America? Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson

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You need (at least) eight arms to hold this savvy & astute collection of essays: it considers topics normally reserved for science with artfulness & biased heart, & it looks at the very human act of writing as a flawed biological feat.
–Elena Passarello 🙏🐙
@graywolfpress.bsky.social 17Feb!

10 New(ish) Reading Recommendations - Orion Magazine New year, new Orion-approved books

So much gratitude to Orion Magazine for recommending Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl alongside such monumental books (including lovely Scottish bestsellers by Ian McEwan and Val McDermid)!

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The Millions' Great Winter 2026 Preview Winter demands that we slow down, take stock, rest. And while we hibernate, books can keep us company. Luckily, this season, there are plenty of noteworthy new reads to fill these cold, short days. Be...

Huge thanks to THE MILLIONS for including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in the Most Anticipated Great Winter 2026 Book Preview! Yay! 🙏🌊🐙

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Pub day is 17Feb @graywolfpress.bsky.social 💙

“Triage is stunning. In this blend of essay, memoir, fabulation, and criticism, the intimate encounters between the narrator and the theorist offer an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through.” —SAIDIYA HARTMAN

The cover of Claudia Rankine's "Triage" shows two figures intertwined in red sweatsuits, against a bright yellow background. The title appears at their feet in bright red, all-caps font, with the author's name below the title in black, all-caps font.

Claudia Rankine returns with TRIAGE on August 4, 2026. This is a book for those complicated but beautiful friendships that we come to rely on to unsettle us, to make us better.

Preorder:
www.graywolfpress.org/books/triage

Renée Nicole Good was a poet.

From Graywolf Director & Publisher Carmen Giménez:⁠ ⁠ Renée Nicole Good was a poet, killed by ICE yesterday in South Minneapolis. This is devastating.⁠ ⁠ As a Minneapolis-based publisher, our hearts break for our neighbors and community. Our mission is to publish the work of people who resist injustice, who refuse to be silenced, whose stories the world refuses to hear. This work, which has always been central to who we are, is not separate from what’s happening now.⁠ ⁠ We grieve with our community. Despite the fear and intimidation, we are committed to showing up in every way available to us.

We grieve with our community.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brandon Kilbourne Brandon Kilbourne has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago and over twenty years of experience as a research biolog...

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The chutzpah and pathos and sparkle of Mandy-Suzanne Wong's language. Such imaginative creatures deserve such an imaginative writer, so full of feeling and fellow-feeling. I loved this curveball of a book!
--Amy Leach

Gratitude for this blurb! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff I don’t know what I expected when this year began. Ever since 2020 it seems we have greeted each year with some measure of optimism—I mean how could it be worse than the one that just …

Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
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Thanks so much for the shout-out, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ! Wow! 🤩🙏🏾

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Support Graywolf Press with a tax-deductible donation! In a moment of increasing pressure towards uniformity, a donation of any size supports the publishing of new, innovative, and too-often overlooked voices. Become part of the wolf pack today:

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Galley of memoir Trying by Chloé Caldwell on green couch

“I’m going to miss working on this book with you.” Trying author Chloé Caldwell to her @graywolfpress.bsky.social editor Yuka Igarashi. I wish all authors that kind of relationship with their editors (including future me!).

Versailles | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

ICYMI: Marie Antoinette plays ephemeral cipher in this brilliantly bewitching tale. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/v... @graywolfpress.bsky.social #booksky

“To live, to strive to understand—is an essayistic gesture.” In this week’s Craft Capsule, Lars Horn, author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (@graywolfpress.bsky.social), considers what it would mean for the essay to embrace new kinds of meaning-making. Read more: at.pw.org/HornCC2

LOVED Crawl by @maxdelsohn.bsky.social (from @graywolfpress.bsky.social) so much this year!!!

1421: My 1994 by Stephanie Burt Today’s poem is My 1994 by Stephanie Burt.

OMG I'm on @theslowdownpod.bsky.social today!!! I do not believe it. I'm so honored. Attn @graywolfpress.bsky.social also @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @janeduffus.bsky.social for Sarah content www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

graphic featuring a portion of Stephanie Burt's poem

photograph of poet Stephanie Burt

"In 1994 I was seventeen: my daughter’s age! I remember that as a time when I was trying to figure out who I was," Maggie shares in episode 1421. "But to some degree we’re always trying to figure that out, aren’t we?"

Read "My 1994" by Stephanie Burt: bit.ly/44FZ4Ik

📖: @graywolfpress.bsky.social

mandy-suzanne_wong ~ fragmen / lamen - tations — new_sinews _Mandy-Suzanne Wong_essay_fragmen / lamen - tations_news_sinews_issue9_

Many thanks to Steve Barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social l at new_sinews for giving such a perfect home to “fragmen - lamen / tations,”

an essay from my forthcoming collection, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (17 Feb 2026 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social).

www.newnewsinews.com/tations

They’re here!! Pub day is 17 Feb 2026!

Cover and interior art by Kathryn Eddy. Production of gorgeous book-object by @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Thank you all so much for all your meticulous work.
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“Part of what’s appealing to me about games like Persona 5 is how they ask what we can do to intervene in a broken world. The protagonist and his growing team of companions are able to infiltrate the subconscious worlds of people in power and ‘change their heart,’ after which they acknowledge and take responsibility for the harm they’ve caused. . . . What if we could pluck trauma out like a rotten tooth?” —Marlin M. Jenkins, from “Versions and Voices”

🆕 on Lab Games: An essay by Marlin M. Jenkins on playing video games during the summer of 2020, and the hope in the voice of video game actor Billy Kametz. Read it here:

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We spy @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's CRAWL!

Editor Anni Liu's backlist recommendation is Christopher Gilbert's TURNING INTO DWELLING, which brings together his award-winning ACROSS THE MUTUAL LANDSCAPE and a never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007.

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We spy I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS 🎉🎉

"Fans of A24 folk horror will devour this slim, gorgeous, and prickly novel set in the isolated mountains of northeastern Spain."

Keeping literature alive is a revolutionary act. In a moment of increasing pressure towards uniformity, a donation of any size supports the publishing of new, innovative, and often overlooked voices. Support Graywolf today:

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The @graywolfpress.bsky.social spring catalog: real good. www.graywolfpress.org/spring-2026-...

🆕 on Lab Games: three interactive visual poems by
@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:

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Join us in congratulating Raksha Vasudevan! We can't wait to publish EMPIRES BETWEEN US 🎉🎉

🆕 on Lab Games: @bijan.bsky.social's interactive piece "The Art of Choosing," a kind of choose-your-own-adventure journey through narrative. Explore here:

graywolflab.org/2025/12/04/t...