I’m so grateful to Long Story Short Bookshop for inviting me to read from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl at Bermuda’s HERstory Festival next Saturday, 28 March, in St. George! My first reading ever in my wee birth country. Schedule TBA at www.wrcbermuda.com/events/herst.... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

“They are called ‘stations’ because they are transit points, but just as soon as they are erected, people begin to move in.” An excerpt from AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Christina MacSweeney, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/estacion-cam...

South Jersey/Philly folks – hope to see you for my talk with Jacinda Townsend at my local indie, InkwoodBooks, in Haddonfield: www.facebook.com/share/1E5TBx... #booksky @graywolfpress.bsky.social

#CoverReveal 👀 Youssef Rakha's POSTMUSLIM—an ambitious and timely essay collection exploring what it means to be Arab-Muslim in the twenty-first century—is out September 15. www.graywolfpress.org/books/postmu...

super excited to read this!! I preordered it on @bookshop.org last fall and forgot about this treat published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social until it appeared on my doorstep this morning 🪰😎

Love a new #book from the folks at Graywolf, a twisty novel Allisa Nutting (author of one of my faves, Made for Love) calls a “cerebral desert thriller of extremity, equal parts heart-rending and terrifying.” Read, shop, and support indies! Available here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978... #booksky

Happy pub. day to Maile Chapman's mesmerizing novel THE SPOIL! Pick up a copy from your local indie, and catch Maile on tour in NYC, Vegas, and Seattle: www.graywolfpress.org/events

Grateful to Annelie Hyatt & ACCENT ACCENT for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl: "a work of beauty, imagination, & depth...which suggests that a new code of justice must rely on compassion, instead of identification." @graywolfpress.bsky.social magazine.accentaccent.com/posts/review...

I can confirm that this collection is spectacular. Congrats to @emilyskaja.bsky.social.

My belated but profound thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. 🩵🌊 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

@emilyskaja.bsky.social's BLACK LAKE—a frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning BRUTE—is out September 1. Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Karen Tei Yamashita's tour for QUESTIONS 27 & 28 kicks off next month! www.graywolfpress.org/events

Epic book mail from @invisibooks.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social and Peirene and New Directions!

Beware of scams featuring emails impersonating Graywolf Press staffers—don’t trust communications that appear to be sent from Graywolf but use an email address that’s not the graywolfpress.org domain. Email any questions to: [email protected]

Happy pub. day to Dorothy Tse's CITY LIKE WATER (trans. by Natascha Bruce), Carolina Ebeid's HIDE, and the paperback edition of Deborah Baker's CHARLOTTESVILLE 📚

Michelle Chan Schmidt reviews CITY LIKE WATER ( @graywolfpress.bsky.social ) by Dorothy Tse (tr. Natascha Bruce), considering the way it explores memory and censorship in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl displays radical thinking at its critical heights.” Thank you so much for this shoutout, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...

@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social, author of, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (@graywolfpress.bsky.social), shares how she found some of the noteworthy journals that have published her prose on marine animals over the years, including Talk Vomit and Digging Press Journal. at.pw.org/MandySuzanneWong

Hooray for TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! 🎉🎉 @linkinglionking.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

A. Igoni Barrett's WHYTEFACE—a pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whiteness—is out August 4, 2026. Preorder here! www.graywolfpress.org/books/whytef...

It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for ASYMPTOTE. @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...

So excited to dive into the box of new and forthcoming titles @graywolfpress.bsky.social just sent me. Just flipped open Larry Levis's collected poems and what a perfect one for today. #poem #books #writing

📢 Job alert! Graywolf Press is seeking a Publishing Operations Assistant to join our team. This is a full-time position and requires physical presence in Graywolf's Minneapolis office Monday–Friday. Apply here: graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit/34917...

Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with. www.pw.org/content/lite... @graywolfpress.bsky.social @diggingpress.com @new-sinews.bsky.social @talkvomit.bsky.social

Happy pub. day to @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social's DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL, seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living 🐌🐙🪼🐚 Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today! www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

Read a @graywolfpress.bsky.social poetry collection this #BlackHistoryMonth! In REGAINING UNCONSCIOUSNESS, Harryette Mullen “confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency.” www.graywolfpress.org/books/regain...

Join us in congratulating Jim Moore, whose collection ENTER is a finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry! 🎉🎉 Meet Jim at the free Meet the Finalists event on March 21, and celebrate at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony on May 6. thefriends.org/minnesota-bo...

“How might we thread the needle between devising open-ended questions to learn more and filling in the blanks with images generated by a poetical human brain?” Huge thanks to Barbara J. King for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Slightly overawed that Outcast will be published in the USA by the legends at @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Preorders, to give the book its best possible American life, very welcome. Released 7 July! www.graywolfpress.org/books/outcast

Ania Szremski at 4Columns calls Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl "fiercely imaginative and poem-like, though technically nonfiction (speculative nonfiction, perhaps?), essays...[that make] sea snails totally present on the page." 🙏 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 4columns.org/szremski-ani...

I’ll have the honor of discussing, at NYU SCRIBE’s Lecture Series, 6 Mar, 4 pm EST on Zoom: Bermuda, books (including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & The Box), publishing, elasticizing English, & rethinking “heritage.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social Free registration: engage.nyu.edu/event/12206840

“In some languages the word for dream / is the same as for music // is the kind of thing poets like to say / to prove they’re on your side” — @dobbygibson.bsky.social @parisreview.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social

‘Swirl & Vortex’, the collected poems of Larry Levis, just published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social is an immense gift to readers. A lyric, attentive, voyaging, truth-speaking poet who, as his editor David St. John wrote, held “a kind of passport of otherness”.

Many thanks to the editors at @necessaryfiction.com for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer @graywolfpress.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/reviews/fals...

A thousand thanks to the editors of @longreads.com ads for publishing "The Endless Self," an excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, which comes out on 17 Feb from @graywolfpress.bsky.social ess. longreads.com/2026/02/05/m...

“Radically reimagining the ideal of 'the self' through coexistence with other species...to cherish the many other life forms while knowing we will never fully understand them.” What an honor for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! Thank you @electricliterature.com! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Read Jacinda Townsend’s TRIGGER WARNING (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) this #BlackHistoryMonth! This novel explores “the possibility, after incredible trauma, of reconnecting to what makes us feel alive.” www.graywolfpress.org/books/trigge...

It's pub. day for two incredible books: @criveragarza.bsky.social's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) and Larry Levis's SWIRL & VORTEX. Pick up copies from your local indie today!

Under Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s gaze, small uncharismatic invertebrates become heroes of our fragile ecology…This is a book to be savored slowly. –Maria Reva, author of ENDLING @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

Out of the Sierra by Victoria Blanco at @coffeehousepress.bsky.social is very good. And @graywolfpress.bsky.social has the English version of Dysphoria Mundi by Paul B. Preciado. Support small presses!

“A speculative history that builds scenes out of a thin or nonexistent historical record” New @criveragarza.bsky.social -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON -- out today & we had Caroline Tracey review the goods ☁️ Read below & grab yours via @graywolfpress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/the-lives-th...

We hope these events for SWIRL & VORTEX and CITY LIKE WATER provide opportunities to gather with community. Details here: www.graywolfpress.org/events

There are so many great publishers in Minneapolis—one thing the rest of us can do is support their books. Here are a few recent novels from Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed sure to give the goons from ICE a stroke: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

“Reading Maggie Nelson is like drinking from a well. It refreshes and brings clarity to the mind.” “This Is Not a Drill": Amy Y. Q. Lin reviews Maggie Nelson's The Slicks (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/SqizahK

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 🙏 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson lithub.com/letter-from-...

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!

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)! orionmagazine.org/article/10-n... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Huge thanks to THE MILLIONS for including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in the Most Anticipated Great Winter 2026 Book Preview! Yay! 🙏🌊🐙 themillions.com/2026/01/the-... Pub day is 17Feb @graywolfpress.bsky.social 💙

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