From the author of the National Book Award finalist The Suicide Index – hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “an extraordinary magical mystery tour of a book” – comes a startlingly original exploration of the unpredictability of fate and the mystery of our own mortality.

In What Is It Like to be Alive?, Chris Arthur, dubbed by Philip Lopate as “one of our greatest living essayists,” finds hidden depth in places and things we might otherwise take for granted.

Green for Luck speaks through Scrabble, through text messages, through gossip and snippets of conversation and well-worn idioms that crack open in debut author Margaret Yapp’s steady hands.

Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour’s Dirt Songs provides a uniquely intimate look at a landscape and family generated from within Appalachia, recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.

Award-winning writer Elijah Burrell’s third collection of poems navigates the depths of human connection and disconnection, love and loss, and the spaces between.

In this collection of fascinating and curious essays, celebrated Southern author George Singleton shares his thoughts “on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera.”

“The story begins in glamour, soars through disappointment, and ends in love. No Last Words will enchant you.”

Until All You See Is Sky is a report from the front lines of a first-generation American life: growing up as the outsider, parenting without a clue, and persevering in plague times.

“The radiant poems in Darius Stewart’s Intimacies in Borrowed Light invite readers into the full and evolving vision of a brilliant young poet as he explores the nuances of his own identity and experiences as a Black and gay artist in urban Appalachia and beyond.”