PRE-ORDER WHEN LAMBS BECOME WOLVES now! WHEN LAMBS BECOME WOLVES tells the true story of Sgt. Rasul T. Freelain, a cop who knew the mother and daughter involved in the infamous "Bali Suitcase Murder." https://www.siupress.com/9780809339945/when-lambs-become-wolves/

Happy #CriMAYnology Month! ⚖️👩‍⚖️ EVOLVING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS offers a compelling and in-depth analysis of how the U.S. Supreme Court has reshaped constitutional protections under Chief Justice John Roberts. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339730/evolving-constitutional-rights/

Lauren Obermark's ENGAGING MUSEUMS helps scholars, students, and teachers bring what museums do—difficult, complicated pedagogical work representing hard history—back inside the classroom. https://www.siupress.com/9780809338504/engaging-museums/

Charles H. Cosgrove expertly combines inquest and police records, and interviews with Annan’s relatives, to analyze the participants, the trial, and the subsequent play. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339389/they-both-reached-for-the-gun/

Happy 3 year anniversary to WRITING THE SELF-ELEGY! Poet Kara Dorris introduces us to this prismatic tradition and its potential to forge new worlds. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339068/writing-the-self-elegy/

Check out our CriMAYnology selections, including the new Illinois Lives book, WHEN LAMBS BECOME WOLVES! See more Criminology books at the link below and use SIUP20 for 20% off your purchase at siupress.com! https://www.siupress.com/criminology/

This uniquely candid look at gang membership provides invaluable insight into the complex interplay of the social, cultural, and personal factors that shape individuals’ life courses. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339440/it-started-with-the-hats/

In Episode 252 of ITBF, we talk with Darrel Dexter, co-author of PULLING OFF THE SHEETS, about his new book, BONDAGE IN EGYPT! https://www.wsiu.org/2026-05-07/inside-the-blanket-fort-episode-252 #insidetheblanketfort #podcast #radio #radioshow #interview #authorinterview

CriMAYnology continues! Q POLICING adopts an inclusive global perspective to account for contextually located experiences of queer people within and outside of the United States. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339563/q-policing/

Always maintaining the difference between stories he tells with historical authority and those that are pure speculation, Rothert provides both a fascinating narrative and a valuable regional history. https://www.siupress.com/9780809320349/the-outlaws-of-cave-in-rock/

As a reminder to our interested authors, our Devil's Backbone Fiction Series at SIU Press closes on Duosuma for submissions on May 31 at 11:59PM! 🕰️🪨 Find the link to our Duosuma for submission here: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/devils-backbone-fiction-0gM3u

Hanlon and Odle's SURVIVED BY ONE offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world. https://www.siupress.com/9780809332625/survived-by-one/

This affecting study of motherhood is framed in issues of Catholicism and of poetry itself, challenging and espousing the roles of both. https://www.siupress.com/9780809323814/this-country-of-mothers/

We continue with CriMAYnology with a fabulous selection from the Perspectives on Crime and Justice series, CRIME, CORRECTIONS, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, edited by Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer! 😷🧤👩‍⚖️ https://www.siupress.com/9780809339693/crime-corrections-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Drawing from the colorful cast of the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be-dead—a state shared by many associated with Birger and his enemies, the Shelton gang—DeNeal re-creates Prohibition-era southern Illinois. https://www.siupress.com/9780809322176/a-knight-of-another-sort/

In the month of May, 2026, SIU Press is celebrating our criminology collection, both classic and new! To see our full list of criminology books, click here: https://www.siupress.com/criminology/

This week on ITBF, we talk with award-winning actor Henry Thomas, star of E.T., Cloak & Dagger, Legends of the Fall, Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House, and many more projects, who recently headlined SIU's Saluki Con! ✨🛸 https://www.wsiu.org/2026-04-30/inside-the-blanket-fort-episode-251

A big thank you to author Jason Emerson for attending Lincoln Forum Spring Symposium 2026 and showing off his #siupress books! #AbrahamLincoln Check out the books by him here: https://www.siupress.com/author/jason-emerson/

Did you know several of our #SIUPress #Lincoln #ConciseLincolnLibrary authors have an exciting free event coming up soon with the Lincoln Presidential Foundation? Register here! https://www.lincolnpresidential.org/2743/Four-Score-Speaker-Series-Lincoln-The-American-Experiment/event-details/

In honor of the Lincoln Forum Spring Symposium 2026 and Holzer being the one to present the Lincoln Forum Film Award to Ken Burns, we at SIU Press wish to highlight his book LINCOLN'S WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY! https://www.siupress.com/9780809387540/lincolns-white-house-secretary/

Ken Burns will receive the coveted Lincoln Forum Film Award! Lincoln scholar and SIU Press author Harold Holzer, Chairman of the Lincoln Forum, will present the award to Burns as a highlight of the event. https://www.siupress.com/9780809326853/the-lincoln-mailbag/

Our author Jason Emerson of GIANT IN THE SHADOWS will be at the 2026 Lincoln Forum Symposium! Ken Burns—the nation’s most honored documentary filmmaker—will receive the coveted Lincoln Forum Film Award! https://www.siupress.com/9780809330553/giant-in-the-shadows/

Happy Publication Day to FROM THE CENTER OF AMERICA by Robert H. Swenson! ⛵ Between 1825-1936, the river towns of Smithland, Paducah, Metropolis, Mound City, and Cairo launched 295 wood-hulled, steam-powered vessels. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339839/from-the-center-of-america/

In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. https://www.siupress.com/9780809327607/red-clay-suite/

In Episodes 249 and 250 of INSIDE THE BLANKET FORT, we explore some of the titles SIU Press is spotlighting for National Poetry Month!✒️📖 Episode 249: https://www.wsiu.org/2026-04-09/inside-the-blanket-fort-episode-249 Episode 250: https://www.wsiu.org/2026-04-23/inside-the-blanket-fort-episode-250

We are honored to announce that the newest book from SIU Press, ECHOES OF CABRINI-GREEN: LETTERS TO MY MOTHER, was just reviewed in the CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS! https://chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/27/a-tribute-to-the-neighborhood-and-people-in-echoes-of-cabrini-green/

Happy National Poetry Month! 📚✍️🪴 Lisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, ERRATA, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief. https://www.siupress.com/9780809334483/errata/

Celebrate National Poetry month with SIU Press by checking out Sass Brown's USA-100! ✍️📚 Brown’s dazzling poems probe the disappointment of domestic reality in the face of America’s glossy facade, abundance and emptiness hand in hand. https://www.siupress.com/9780809334469/usa-1000/

INSTRUCTIONS, ABJECT & FUMING: In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love. https://www.siupress.com/9780809335732/instructions-abject-and-fuming/

Big thanks to Thomas T.K. Zung for coming to speak at the Fuller Futures Festival at the Student Center here in Carbondale! To check out the book Thomas T.K. Zung published with us, check out this link!: https://www.siupress.com/9780809333172/buckminster-fuller/

Come meet architect and author Thomas K. Zung at The University Honors Program and Fuller Futures Festival! & Get signed copies of his book, BUCKMINSTER FULLER!! 🌍

Celebrate National Poetry Month with SIU Press!📚✍️ Urging us to reexamine our own place in the broader human tapestry, INTO EACH ROOM WE ENTER WITHOUT KNOWING announces the arrival of a powerful and necessary new voice. https://www.siupress.com/9780809335770/into-each-room-we-enter-without-knowing/

Happy Publication Day to ECHOES OF CABRINI-GREEN by Rudolph Elliot Willis! In this powerful memoir, Willis tells the story of his journey from Chicago’s most notorious public housing project to the halls of academia and medicine. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339914/echoes-of-cabrini-green/

On Day 4 of the Organization of American Historian's annual conference, we are highlighting Black American History! ⭐❤️🤍💙 To look at our full list of selections, click here: https://www.siupress.com/2026-oah-conference-on-american-history/

Check out the #SIUPress table at SalukiCon 2026! 🌕🌕 We have selections from pop culture & regional history! use code REGHIST30 for 30% off your purchase at siupress.com#SIUPress

For OAH, SIU Press is spotlighting SUDDEN DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS, a 2024 release by Sarah Lirley! Lirley finds coroners’ rulings were not uniform, but rather varied by who was conducting the inquest. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339327/sudden-deaths-in-st-louis/

Here are two of the Women's History books that SIU Press has selected for the #OAH conference! ⭐❤️🤍💙 To look at our full list of selections, click here: https://www.siupress.com/2026-oah-conference-on-american-history/

Happy Day 1 of the Organization of American Historian's annual conference! This year the conference is themed after Re-Thinking American History at 250! To look at our full list of selections, click here: https://www.siupress.com/2026-oah-conference-on-american-history/

Tomorrow is the first day of the OAH Annual Conference! Patiently crafted, AVENUES OF TRANSFORMATION will be the first source for readers to turn to for gaining a better understanding of Illinois statehood. https://www.siupress.com/9780809338764/avenues-of-transformation/

Chad Davidson's UNEARTH imagines a world in which private and public terrors feed on each other, ultimately growing to a fever pitch. https://www.siupress.com/9780809337712/unearth/

In VANISHING ACTS, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry’s great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. https://www.siupress.com/9780809337279/vanishing-acts/

A stunning addition to the work of immigrant and migrant women poets on their diasporas, Luisa A. Igloria's MAPS FOR MIGRANTS AND GHOSTS reveals a dream landscape at the edge of this world. https://www.siupress.com/9780809337927/maps-for-migrants-and-ghosts/

Dubrow's DOTS & DASHES catalogs the domestic life of a military spouse, illustrating what it is like to live in a tightly constructed world of rules and regulations, ceremony and tradition, where “every sacrifice already / knows its place.” https://www.siupress.com/9780809336098/dots-and-dashes/

Yesterday, the School of Education held an Educating With Evidence workshop with Darrel Dexter! To check out more of our selections from the workshop, click here and use code EWE for 30% off now through April 30, 2026: https://www.siupress.com/educating-with-evidence-workshop/

Happy National Poetry Month! Today, SIU Press is celebrating by spotlighting the work of Cynthia Huntington! 📚✍️ In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, CIVIL TWILIGHT wrestles hard-won hope from disquiet, coming to rest in what is. https://www.siupress.com/9780809339303/civil-twilight/

Today is the 2026 Indigenous Plants Symposium! It is hosted by the Illinois Native Plant Society in the Life Sciences 3 auditorium here on the #SIU campus! https://www.illinoisplants.org/2026-indigenous-plants-symposium-hosted-by-inps-southern-chapter-on-april-11th/

Shadowing the trajectory of an elegy, this poetry collection of lament, remembrance, and solace wrestles with how we come to terms with suffering while still finding joy, meaning, and beauty. https://www.siupress.com/9780809337972/hinge/

Happy National Poetry Month! 📚✍️ In THE FLESH BETWEEN US, the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. https://www.siupress.com/9780809338429/the-flesh-between-us/

This collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, family dynamics, and friendships. ALT TEXT: The cover of Catherine Pond's FIELDGLASS over a glass window dotted with rain. David St. John praises Pond as a powerful, visionary poet. https://www.siupress.com/9780809338146/fieldglass/

Tomorrow at 7PM CT, Leonne M. Hudson will be giving a Zoom webinar on his SIU Press book, BLACK AMERICANS IN MOURNING! This talk is hosted by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation as part of the Four Score Speaker Series! https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4ENZcBPkTWqSQ3l_C5xjRg#/registration