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  • So Many Africas
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    So Many Africas

    In her memoir, winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Jill Kanel details her early days as a newlywed, accompanying her Dutch husband to Zambia and living in a village so remote that it takes an eight-hour canoe ride to reach. This book recounts Kandel's day-to-day experiences, explor...

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  • The Running Body
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    The Running Body

    The Running Body by Emily Pifer, selected by Steve Almond as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, is a memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner. Pifer’s debut memoir wrestles and reckons with power and agency, language and story, bo...

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  • Under the Broom Tree
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    Under the Broom Tree

    Natalie Homer's debut poetry collection explores the wilderness in all of us to find rest and divine providence.In the story of the prophet Elijah, he must flee his home, and, after an arduous journey, he arrives under a broom tree, where he prays for his own death. But in his sleep, he is touche...

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  • Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
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    Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

    A comprehensive anthology that includes work by 110 important American poets, established and emerging.Includes poems by Kim Addonizio, Jimmy Santiago Baca, George Bilgere, Chana Bloch, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Terran...

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  • Farang
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    Farang

    Peter Blair’s third collection, Farang, documents the author’s experiences living in Thailand. A lyric and insightful collection that explores travel, identity, and memory.

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  • Bear Season
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    Bear Season

    Award-winning author Katherine Ayres charts a lyrical, thoughtful path through the lives of bears she encounters in the forests of Western Massachusetts. Using her natural curiosity and wit, Ayres explores how people and bears coexist, and what happens when things go wrong. This page-turner will ...

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    speculation, n.

    speculation, n. by Shayla Lawz won the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize and imagines a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death.Shayla Lawz’s debut collection brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body. I...

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  • Hallelujah Station and Other Stories
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    Hallelujah Station and Other Stories

    M. Randal O’Wain’s debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss. These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic parts of life, the pieces that may neither sta...

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  • Gift That Arrives Broken
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    Gift That Arrives Broken

    In Jacqueline Berger’s third collection, she combines the philosophical with the everyday to examine a broken world.

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  • When She Named Fire
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    When She Named Fire

    When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women features 460 poems by 96 of the most exciting poets in America including Kim Addonizio, Natasha Trethewey, Robin Becker, Lia Purpura, Hilda Raz, Tracy K. Smith, Chase Twichell, Marilyn Nelson, Marie Howe, Judith Ortiz Cofe...

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  • Not Dead Yet and Other Stories
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    Not Dead Yet and Other Stories

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Hadley Moore's debut Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore’s debut collection of short stories presents a conte...

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  • Greater Monster
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    Greater Monster

    Adam Patric Miller’s debut essay collection, A Greater Monster, winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, follows his insightful views of life, including being an educator and a father, as he paints a portrait of the man he has grown to become. Miller also recounts how the loss of his father a...

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  • Our Portion
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    Our Portion

    Our Portion, the new and selected collection of Philip Terman, illustrates the poet’s deep understanding and compassion for our world. Spanning twenty years of poetry, this collection of poems focuses on themes of nature, literature, family, and Judaism.

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  • Terminal Maladies
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    Terminal Maladies

    Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection explores a son’s relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and his move from his homeland o...

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  • Sheet Music
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    Sheet Music

    In Robert Gibb’s second Autumn House Poetry collection, he finds sublime music in everyday city life. He offers a roadmap to hear the music of life and nature within the context of an industrial setting.

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  • Song of the Horse
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    Song of the Horse

    A collection of beloved Pittsburgh poet Sam Hazo’s selected poems spanning 50 years. Tackling themes of family, faith, and war, Hazo writes with immense lyricism and humanity.

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  • Not God After All
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    Not God After All

    From the introduction by Gerald Stern: "These aphorisms, petite narratives, whatever they are, were written over a period of two weeks in the Spring of 2002. They represent my feelings during that time, feelings that were angry, arch, focused, political, and unified. They also reflect both my rea...

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  • Water Books
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    Water Books

    Judith Vollmer’s The Water Books does a stunning job of blending natural images within an urbane setting. Whether it be a Pittsburgh neighborhood, a bus, or a phone conversation, Vollmer’s attention to detail is unparalleled.

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  • Nest of Matches
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    Nest of Matches

    In Amie Whittemore’s Nest of Matches, the poems that bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form identityThis collection is a lavish declaration of the beauty of the natural world, queer identity, and of the imagination set free. Whittemore’s third book ...

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  • Myth of Pterygium
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    Myth of Pterygium

    Set in a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico City—endless traffic jams, relentless clouds of pollution, economic hardships, and the ever-present threat of drug cartels, Myth of Pterygium, the debut novella by Diego Gerard Morrison is the story of a struggling poet contending with vision...

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  • Where the Road Turns
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    Where the Road Turns

    In Patricia Jabbeh Wesley’s fourth poetry collection, she continues her lyric exploration of what it means to be a survivor and an immigrant, retelling stories of a generation ruined by war and grief, and the healing that follows.

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  • New America
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    New America

    New America showcases 61 writers, emerging and established, who explore American life in a time of cultural change. This collection of fiction, poetry, and drama reflects a diverse, aspiring generation of writers, readers, and teachers. Including fiction by ZZ Packer, Carlos Hernandez, Junot Diaz...

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  • Love for Sale
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    Love for Sale

    In his debut essay collection, Clifford Thompson muses on different art forms and their relation to his experiences as an African-American in the post-Civil Rights era, reminiscent of James Baldwin. 

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  • Skull Cathedral
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    Skull Cathedral

    In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exaltation, eroticism, grief, and desire. Using the...

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  • Mass of the Forgotten
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    Mass of the Forgotten

    James Tolan’s debut full-length collection exhibits eloquent and direct language to explore family trauma and personal memory. Tolan has a truly unique voice and his poems offer readers something they won’t find elsewhere.

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  • Scorpion's Question Mark
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    Scorpion's Question Mark

    The Scorpion’s Question Mark, a formally inventive debut collection of poetry driven by narrative and character, was the winner of the 2022 Donald Justice Poetry Prize.In this stunning debut, JD Debris writes about characters who live on society’s outskirts and demand greater visibility in the fa...

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  • Bigger
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    Bigger

    Finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction  Shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing  Featured on The Millions’ Great Fall 2025 Book Preview  Winner of the 2024 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, this large-hearted personal essay collection by Ren ...

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  • The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe
    The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

    The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

    Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIE Award for Short Stories Featured on The Millions’ Great Fall 2025 Book Preview F...

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  • Thank Your Lucky Stars
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    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Full of wit and humor, Sherrie Flick's second collection introduces readers to big worlds and major characters in short, sometimes very short, stories. From a woman buying corn who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, lo...

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  • Circle/Square
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    Circle/Square

    Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality.  Exploring the complex and thematically rich worlds of science and math, McLemore spins into verse the kind of material many poet...

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  • Lucky Wreck
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    Lucky Wreck

    Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Ada Limón’s award-winning debut poetry collection, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and how her writing practice has developed over time.<From the new introduction by the author: "I expected to meet a strang...

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  • Creep Love
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    Creep Love

    Michael Walsh’s sophomore poetry collection, Creep Love, explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into a disturbing fable: A young pregnant woman flees h...

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  • Drift and Swerve
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    Drift and Swerve

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Sam Ligon’s second story collection is a tightly crafted series about a girl wandering the United States, hoping not to find herself but to escape.

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  • Let it be a Dark Roux
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    Let it be a Dark Roux

    In this retrospective new and selection collection of poetry, Sheryl St. Germain sings of her New Orleans upbringing, the Cajun/Creole culture, and the struggles and joys of being a woman and mother.

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  • Last Visit
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    Last Visit

    Winner of the 2018 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, Chad Abushanab’s formalist poetry collection, The Last Visit, carefully and compassionately explores a family broken by alcoholism and abuse.These poems trace the trajectory of an adolescent living with a violent father struggling with addiction, an...

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  • Between Song and Story
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    Between Song and Story

    Forty-six writers explore the range of the contemporary nature essay. Between Song and Storycelebrates the contemporary essay’s capacity to live between the two worlds of lyric and narrative. The editors have sought to capture that duality in this anthology, a collection of writings that exemplif...

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  • The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer
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    The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer

    In The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize, Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend’s suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities and joys of being a gay man of color.  At the intersection of queerness, loss, and d...

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  • No One Leaves the World Unhurt
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    No One Leaves the World Unhurt

    John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever...

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