“The Fruit Cure presents a type of human trajectory we don’t consider enough: how we took the emerging cultural possibility of being selective about how we eat, and how we might manage our well-being through diet, and turned it back into an unhealthy and extreme practice. Alnes’s book is an eye-opening journey into how isolating the pursuit of health can be when our society does not keep an open mind and inclusive practice that prioritizes care, and the dangers that come with the push toward individualism.”
Casey Johnston, editor, She’s A Beast Newsletter and author, Liftoff: Couch to Barbell
Elena Sheppard’s memoir is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press. Her writing has been published in Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Catapult. Subscribe to her newsletter, Sunday Reads.
“The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is a bittersweet and achingly tender coming of age novel. Like V. E. Schwab and Audrey Niffenegger, Rita Zoey Chin is an expert guide to that territory in which magic, loss, and possibility change not only the characters but the reader, too.”
Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
When I was Fiction Editor at the Kenyon Review, Sarah Thankam Mathews and I worked on her story story “Rubberdust,” which was later selected by Curtis Sittenfeld for Best American Short Stories 2020. That edition has an incredible contributor’s note; you can read an excerpt here. Mathews was later a finalist for the National Book Award for All This Could Be Different.
J.T. Sutlive’s story “Two-Headed Dog” was published in the Kenyon Review in Spring 2023.
Ruth Awad’s second poetry collection, Outside the Joy, has been sold to Jack White’s publishing company, Third Man Books!
She is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020).
Accepted within twelve hours of submitting, “Grounded,” a short story by Geeta Kothari, appears in Pleiades’s Spring 2023 issue. Don’t miss Geeta’s latest book, I Brake For Moose, out from Braddock Avenue Books.
A 2024 NEA Fellow, Paige Towers has published her writing in The Washington Post, The Guardian, McSweeney's, The Harvard Review, Seneca Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, The Baltimore Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Billfold, Bustle, and Hyperallergic.
When I was Fiction Editor at the Kenyon Review, Tara Lindis’s “The Glowing” was selected by Amber Sparks for the Best Microfiction 2021.
Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s What You Become in Flight:
“Poignant and exquisite.” The Los Angeles Review of Books
”An inspiring and powerful book.” Booklist