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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

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 roughghosts.com/2026/01/02/2...

Thanks so much for the shout-out, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ! Wow! 🤩🙏🏾 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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“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!).

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!!!

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...

"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

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. 💙🐙

🆕 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: graywolflab.org/2025/12/18/v...

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. www.graywolfpress.org/books/turnin...

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: www.graywolfpress.org/support-gray...

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: graywolflab.org/2025/12/12/t...

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...

Sometimes you read a short piece and it just hits like a punch in the gut. Wow. "You Start with Three Languages" by Rae Delane (via the @graywolfpress.bsky.social Lab site) graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y... #literature #writing #booksky 💙📚

#SneakPeek 👀 Serena Chopra's memoir-in-poems A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES is out 6/23/26. Available for preorder now: www.graywolfpress.org/books/catalo...

The gift that keeps on giving! Subscribe a loved one to the Graywolf Galley Club and they'll receive six books (before they're out to the public!) throughout the year, exclusive author content, and more 🎁📚️ graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/galleyclub/i...

Then I'm reading poetry w @catfitzpatrick.net & @monsteryoun.bsky.social at KGB Bar on Mon. Dec. 8: www.fabnyc.org/kgb-bar-and-... Please consider attending! NB @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/bran...

It's #GivingTuesday! As a nonprofit, Graywolf relies on the radical generosity of readers like you to bring daring, transformative books to life. The first 75 donors who give $75 or more by Dec. 3 at 11:59pm CT will receive a limited-edition tote bag!⁠ www.givemn.org/organization...

Happy pub. day to Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS, a keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath. Get your copy! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play. graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y...

Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Bojan Louis’s SINKING BELL “depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.” Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth: www.graywolfpress.org/books/sinkin...

“Looking for the treasure, my friend. I lost something in this country, and I can’t figure out where, what city.” An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/

It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25 www.givemn.org/organization...

I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!

Carmen Maria Machado is one of the brilliant authors participating in this year’s Postcard Auction! Bid now for a personalized postcard from the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) at the link below! buff.ly/sE9j40e

Maybe the densest novel under 200 pages I've ever read. I was lost, found, then lost again. This book contains some of the most stunning lines. A frenzy of magical grotesque beauty. Two dozen folktales packed in a cabin in the woods. I'm already craving more. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

If anyone else is doing mermaids for the holidays this year I do have a relevant book @graywolfpress.bsky.social

3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift: www.givemn.org/organization...

🆕 on Lab Games: Katy Whitehead's essay "Escaping the Family," about escape rooms, family vacations, and the "infinite puzzles" of marriage and parenthood. 🖇️ Read it here: graywolflab.org/2025/11/14/e...

Natalie Diaz, whose 2020 "Postcolonial Love Poem," won the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's foremost contemporary poets. She also happens to be one of the authors featured in our annual postcard auction. Bid on a personalized note from Diaz today. buff.ly/TUgNheK @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Read a @graywolfpress.bsky.social anthology this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS “gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry.” www.graywolfpress.org/books/new-po...

#SneakPeek 👀 chaun webster's WITHOUT TERMINUS—a dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author—is out June 2, 2026. Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/with...

We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation. www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...

Congratulations to CLMP member @graywolfpress.bsky.social for winning the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize!

Ready, Set, Bid! Manuel Muñoz is joining this year’s postcard auction, and you could walk away with a personalized note from the author of The Consequences (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). Don’t miss your chance! buff.ly/YcTTczg

Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up: www.graywolfpress.org/books?search...

You can hear Brandon Kilbourne read from Natural History this Wednesday at the U's @bellmuseum.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social events.tc.umn.edu/event/25210-...

New #poetry #books from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, City Lights Publishers, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, CavanKerry Press, Green Writers Press, Penguin Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (out this month with @graywolfpress.bsky.social , tr. Natasha Wimmer) in @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

“Few other poets today operate in this genre of poetics, specifically eco-poetics and Anthropocene poetics.“ Excerpt from review of Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social . Read the full review at the link below: buff.ly/aUXkTIA #writingcommunity